Bang in Belfast (daily newspaper Junge Welt)

In the seventh year after the “Brexit” referendum, Brussels and London are converging at a snail’s pace. Since this week they have been talking again about the additional provisions to the “Brexit” treaty, which Northern Irish unionists hate. On Monday there was even a small agreement on this so-called Northern Ireland Protocol. However, it is doubtful whether that will be enough to end the political standstill in the Stormont regional parliament in Belfast.

British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Christopher Heaton-Harris and representatives of all Northern Ireland parliamentary parties met in Belfast on Wednesday for negotiations. It should be about a solution to the government crisis in Northern Ireland and the »Brexit« additional protocol. But there was a bang: London did not let the head of the Republican party Sinn Féin (SF), Mary Lou McDonald, take part. The largest party in Northern Ireland then boycotted the meeting. Also the Social D…