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Originally Posted by nomadking
This is NOT about importing meat into the EU. It's about moving meat from GB to NI.
More than a bit hypocritical for the EU to complain about the possibility of meat from GB reaching the EU via NI when they insist on the possibility of EU meat(eg Horse meat) reaching GB directly or via NI.
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You have to remember that the EU *is* its rules - nothing more and nothing less. For all the flag-waving and anthem tooting, it is still, for the time being at least, a supra-national organisation with no independent existence. There is a bureaucracy and a parliament but there is no autonomous government; only a council of the heads of government of its members. There is no constitution. There is no history, no alliances and no soft power by which it, in and of itself, may attempt to influence the world. It relies entirely on the influence of its most prominent members for that, and that influence is diminished in the world by the departure of one of those prominent members, which now actively negotiates and manoeuvres against it.
The bureaucrats in Brussels fuss over their sausage laws because that is all that defines them. It is unsurprising that they treat a challenge to the immutability of single market rules as an existential crisis. That’s precisely what it is.
They deserve a few microseconds of pity, before we ruthlessly exploit all the things we have, and they do not, to ensure the integrity of our own single market in preference to theirs.