[News] Brussels considers taking legal action against Britain over plan to breach Brexit

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Britain and the European Union held emergency talks today, Thursday, over Prime Minister Boris Johnson's plan to amend the (Brexit) treaty, as Brussels considers taking legal action against London.

European Union negotiators are trying to assess how to deal with London, which is moving forward with its plan to act outside the scope of international law by violating the secession treaty, according to the (Russia Today) website.

And Marus Sivkovic, vice president of the European Commission, expressed concern about the plan before a meeting with British official Michael Gove in London, on the sidelines of trade talks between chief negotiators Michel Barnier and David Frost.

An EU source said Britain would not succeed if it aimed to try to use the planned violation of the withdrawal agreement as a threat to extract concessions from the bloc in trade talks.

According to a memorandum distributed by the European Commission to the 27 member states of the European Union, the withdrawal agreement gives the bloc up to four years to start legal action against Britain if it violates its rules during a transitional period this year.

The British government says its planned law, introduced on Wednesday, clarifies the ambiguities of the withdrawal agreement, and that its main priority is the 1998 Northern Ireland Peace Agreement that ended decades of violence. She said the bill will be discussed on Monday.

Talks about a trade deal have stalled due to government aid rules and fishing. Without an agreement, trade between the Union and Britain, worth close to a trillion dollars, could be subject to disruption at the start of 2021, compounding the economic impact of the Coronavirus pandemic.

The most recent dispute centers around Northern Ireland, which shares a land border with the European Union member state, Ireland. Under the 1998 agreement, there should be no restrictions on Ireland's borders.