nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20220616-033219-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 220615s2022||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20220616-033219-0 doi eng 342 23 Konstantinidis, Mark Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-7976-5350 British Bare Necessities - The Northern Ireland Protocol Bill and the doctrine of necessity Konstantinidis, Mark Verfassungsblog 2022-06-15 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier In the latest episode of the Brexit saga, the United Kingdom government has published the Northern Ireland Protocol ('NIP') Bill, by which it seeks to unilaterally disapply large parts of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland to the 2019 Withdrawal Agreement (‘WA’) concluded between the UK and the European Union. The British government has shared a summary of its legal position, seeking to justify the NIP Bill on the basis of the doctrine of necessity. However, this justification seems to be a literal, if unconvincing, attempt to make a virtue of necessity. CC BY-SA 4.0 Boris Johnson brexit EU Withdrawal Bill European Union Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol UK Withdrawal Agreement Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/british-bare-necessities/ raw object