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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Amanda Ferguson and Conor Humphries

N.Ireland unionists face historic choice as EU, UK near protocol deal

FILE PHOTO: A Union flag hangs on railings near a mural reading "prepared for peace, ready for war" is seen on the side of a building in the Mount Vernon area of Belfast, Northern Ireland June 21, 2022. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

Northern Ireland's largest unionist party faces a historic dilemma if EU and British negotiators clinch a post-Brexit trade deal: redraw their red lines or risk signing a death warrant for decades of power-sharing with Irish nationalists.

The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) could take a chance and endorse a Northern Ireland Protocol deal that is all but certain to fall short of its stringent demands but that would open the door for more radical rivals to outflank the party.

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