London (AP) —Ireland’s Foreign Minister said Britain’s demands risk “further collapse of relations” with the European Union prior to this week’s talks aimed at clearing the deadlock in Britain’s Brexit agreement. I warned.

Simon Coveney posted a statement on Twitter after British Minister Brexit reiterated his claim that the European Court of Justice should not be allowed to oversee the conduct of the transaction. Coveny described this as a new “red line” that hindered the progress of the negotiations.

“Does (the British government) really want the agreed progress or further collapse of the relationship?” He wrote.

This week, the European Commission will announce a proposal to break the deadlock in the trade agreement in Northern Ireland, the only region in the UK that borders the block of 27 countries. The UK government is trying to renegotiate some of the divorce agreements with the EU that require customs and border inspections for some goods moving between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.

The regulation aims to open the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland while ensuring that products entering the EU’s Single Market meet European standards. This is an important pillar of the Northern Ireland peace process. However, the check offended members of Northern Ireland. They say they have weakened relations between this region and the rest of the UK, making it difficult for businesses to operate.

“The role of the European Court of Justice in Northern Ireland and, as a result, the inability of the UK Government to reasonably implement highly confidential arrangements in the Protocol has created a serious imbalance in the way the Protocol operates. “” Said British negotiator David. Frost said in a statement released prior to Saturday’s speech in Lisbon. “Without new arrangements in this area, protocols will not have the support they need to survive.”

The Times of London reported on Saturday that Brussels is likely to provide unobstructed access to products related to the UK’s “national identity” such as Cumberland sausages. This proposal is an attempt to avoid the so-called sausage war over chilled meat across the Irish Sea.

Frost’s office on Saturday suggested that EU concessions must be “far beyond sausages.”

In a speech at the Conservative Party meeting last week, Frost threatened to invoke a controversial break clause in the divorce agreement if the EU did not want to make concessions in Northern Ireland.

Mr Frost said the Brexit agreement, negotiated and signed by the UK and the EU, undermines peace in Northern Ireland and causes “instability and turmoil.”

Unless there is a major change in the transaction, the UK will invoke Article 16 to allow either side to suspend the agreement in exceptional circumstances. But Britain had previously created the threat and Frost had not triggered it.

“But we can’t wait forever,” he said.