British Ambassador Calls EU-UK Agreement a Major Milestone
Paul Johnston, the British Ambassador to Ireland, recently characterized a new agreement between the EU and the UK as particularly "significant."
This milestone was reached yesterday, with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer highlighting that it could potentially inject nearly £9 billion (€10.6 billion) into the UK economy by 2040.
Central to this agreement is the establishment of a new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) deal covering plant and animal products, a framework that is not bound by time constraints.
In an…