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title: "Dutch PM warns UK's Johnson to stick to N.Ireland Brexit terms"
description: "DUBLIN, May 23 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson knows very well what action the European Union could take if London fails to comply with the post-Brexit agreement it struck with the bloc on Northern Ireland, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday."
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published: "2022-05-24T04:00:03"
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# Dutch PM warns UK's Johnson to stick to N.Ireland Brexit terms

> DUBLIN, May 23 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson knows very well what action the European Union could take if London fails to comply with the post-Brexit agreement it struck with the bloc on Northern Ireland, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said on Monday.

By Reuters · Published 24 May 2022, 06:00 SAST · Updated 24 May 2022, 00:17 SAST

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"We will keep on working to ensure that we somehow find a way out of this, but if it is not possible then we also have to take our next steps and think about those," Rutte said in a joint news conference with his Irish counterpart, Micheál Martin, saying his country stood "shoulder to shoulder" with Ireland.

"I don't want to guesstimate about what they could be because I don't think that is helpful, but I think Boris Johnson and the UK know very well what the next steps could be. Let's hope we don't come to that."

(Reporting by Padraic Halpin; Editing by Leslie Adler)