Mois : janvier 2022
Featured Special Northern Ireland report

Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol : Belfast’s sword of Damocles

One year after the effective implementation of Brexit on 1 January 2021, London and Brussels are still arguing about the status of Northern Ireland. The province’s structurally fragile economy could be at risk. It has been one of the most burning issues in the post-Brexit negotiations. In 2019, after bitter discussions, Boris Johnson’s government ratified […]

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Why did the Northern Irish say no to Brexit ?

The United Kingdom has never been so badly named. While the majority of British people voted to leave the European Union in the referendum held on Thursday, June 23, 2016, Scotland and Northern Ireland voted to remain in the EU.  In June 2016, 51.9 percent of Britons made the choice to leave the EU, triggering the Brexit process, […]

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50 years later, the Bloody Sunday engraved forever

On January 30, 1972, in Derry, the British army fired on its citizens, opening fire on a peaceful march. This tragic day resulted in 14 dead, coldly executed. 50 years later, the massacre has forever marked the history of Northern Ireland.  It is one of the darkest pages of the Northern Irish conflict. Fifty years […]

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Featured Special Northern Ireland report

All-Island League : the beginning of the reunification ?

The idea of a merger of the leagues of Ireland and Northern Ireland is more than ever considered. If this project called All-Island League could allow the football of both countries to grow economically, its realization remains complicated because of the local liabilities, the shadow of the Troubles still hanging over the island. Merging the […]

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Irish people are in favor of a reunification

The reunification of Ireland is a project supported by a large part of the inhabitants of the island of Ireland, which aims to put an end to the division of the island between independent Ireland and Northern Ireland under British sovereignty. Elections are coming up in May, most Irish people seem to be in favor […]

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