The EU could abandon the entire Brexit agreement with the UK if London goes through with its threat to suspend parts of the withdrawal deal, Ireland’s foreign minister has warned.
In some of the strongest public comments to date, which suggested a full blown trade war was coming closer, Simon Coveney told broadcaster RTE that the UK was deliberately pushing for a deal it knew it could not get.
Retaliatory action from Brussels would go hand-in-hand with any action from London, he said. “One is contingent on the other. So that if one is being set aside, there is a danger that the other will also be set aside by the EU.”
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