Feb 20 (Reuters) - European Commission vice-president
Maros Sefcovic said on Monday he had a productive call with
British foreign minister James Cleverly and Northern Ireland
minister Chris Heaton-Harris over the disputed Northern Ireland
Protocol.
He said their "top priority is to succeed for the benefit of
all communities", and that they would reconvene later this week.
Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom
remaining in the European Union's single market for goods since
the country's exit from the European Union. But the arrangement,
meant to avoid a hard border with EU member Ireland and preserve
peace, has imposed checks on some goods arriving in Northern
Ireland from the rest of the United Kingdom, angering
pro-British unionists in the province.
(Reporting by Charlotte Van Campenhout
Editing by Mark Heinrich)
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