Concerns are being raised by experts that north-south and east-west strands face being “hollowed out” by careless duplication
British prime minister Kier Starmer and Taoiseach Simon Harris during the Republic of Ireland-England soccer international at the Aviva stadium in Dublin last Saturday. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Wire
The BIIGC is not tied to Northern Ireland issues: its remit covers “bilateral co-operation at all levels on all matters of mutual interest within the competence of both governments”. The new summits will not avoid Northern Ireland issues. The full remit of their four key areas is growth, trade and investment; climate, energy technology and innovation; security, justice and global issues; and culture, education and people-to-people connections.
Events are also bypassing the North-South Ministerial Council , the Belfast Agreement’s all-island forum. A quarter century of solid but little-noticed work via its six cross-Border bodies has been eclipsed by the Shared Island Initiative, with its headline-grabbing projects and €100 million-a-year budget. The Republic’s ballooning budget surplus has further transformed public perceptions of what cross-Border co-operation might become.
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