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Originally Posted by jfman
Ireland would have more to lose with a flood of non-EU regulated goods into its territory.
I’m going to point out this isn’t a “new development” it’s just anti-Irish sentiment and moaning about the EU protecting the Single Market we are adamant we want to leave.
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You mean like horse meat masquerading as beef?
The article is from "The Guardian".
Flood? The regulations will be the same or very similar. The bigger problem is dodgy stuff and people coming from the EU. The EU could always follow our changes in regulations.
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Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said: "It's not enough on its own.
"We would need a single Irish economic zone, or whatever you would like to call it, to cover more than agriculture and food."
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Which apparently includes:-
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Northern Ireland would therefore remain fully part of the UK’s customs territory and would remain aligned with UK rules governing the regulation of industrial goods, state aid, fiscal rules and so on.
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How is that anything but a takeover of NI?
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It is also potentially perilous for Dublin. Ireland has long resisted any notion that the UK would have a unilateral exit from the backstop. No serious discussions have yet started on what a consent mechanism might look like. But what if, as part of some overall deal, the Assembly could vote to exit the backstop, and the effect of that was to restore checks and controls at the border?
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The Ireland-UK-France issues should be covered by
TIR (Transports Internationaux Routiers, International Road Transport)system.
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Although each EU Member State is a Contracting Party to the TIR Convention, the European Union is considered to be a single territory for the purposes of the TIR procedure. This means TIR can only be used in the Union for international movements, i. e. where the movement either starts or ends in a third country, or where the goods move between two or more EU Member States via the territory of a third country.
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Each EU Member State, including the Union itself, is a Contracting Party to the TIR Convention 1975.
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Still adds extra costs and delays for the Irish.