Regulations and Government
EU May Use Aviation as a Stick to Force UK Brexit Compliance
EU leaders may impose new restrictions on the UK air transport sector in retaliation for what they view as breaches of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

The European Commission could institute new restrictions on the UK’s air transport industry in retaliation for the British government’s efforts to circumvent some aspects of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement, according to the U.S. government’s special envoy for Northern Ireland, Mick Mulvaney. Speaking during a recent webinar organized by the Institute of International and European Affairs, Mulvaney claimed Irish foreign affairs minister Simon Coveney had told him that the European Union (EU) could use air transport as a means to discourage the UK from using its controversial Internal Market Bill to undermine legally binding agreements covering the border between the UK and Ireland at the conclusion of the Brexit transition period, which ends Dec. 31, 2020.


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