EXPLAINER: Why are UK and the EU still fighting over Brexit?

FILE - In this Saturday, Dec. 12, 2020 file photo, the P&O ferry port of Larne, Northern Ireland, situated north of Belfast handling freight and travel for the two hour crossing of the Irish Sea between Scotland and Northern Ireland. Britain and the European Union are once again trading insults and accusations as they wrangle over Brexit. The conflict centers on Northern Ireland, the only part of the U.K. that shares a border with an EU member.

While Britain was part of the EU's vast free trade single market, there were no barriers to people and goods crossing that border. The open frontier helped underpin the peace process that ended decades of Catholic-Protestant violence in Northern Ireland because if allowed the people there, whatever their identity, to feel at home in both Ireland and the U.K.

Under the divorce agreement, the British government was required to impose customs checks on goods entering Northern Ireland from the rest of the U.K. It has repeatedly postponed introducing them, to the annoyance of the EU. That has led the British government to argue that the Brexit deal itself — negotiated and agreed by the U.K. and the EU — is undermining the peace process.The EU agrees that the Northern Ireland arrangements are not working well. It plans to offer proposals on Wednesday to resolve the trade problems by waiving many of the checks on goods.

Britain’s demand has led some in the EU to doubt Johnson’s government ever was sincere about sticking to the agreement.The EU and the U.K. say they will hold several weeks of “intensive” talks on the latest proposals.

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