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Originally Posted by nomadking
The NI Protocol was only in the event of absence of a deal with the UK as a whole. In theory if the EU was ever intending on acting in good faith, it wouldn't never have been needed in the first place, which it wasn't whatever way you look at things.
There was never going to be a mass movement of items not approved by the EU from GB to the EU via NI. Even if there was, there is nothing illegal about that.
Ireland depends heavily on goods coming from or through the UK.
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So that's doing Ireland more of a favour than GB or NI. Why didn't the EU agree to that in the first place? |
Bit confused by this. The EU wants to protect its' Single Market and Ireland has not intention of leaving the EU any time soon so there were three options - closing the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, threatening the Good Friday Agreement, the whole of the UK staying in the Single Market or having the North stay in the Single Market.
Options 1 and 2 were no go due to either international or internal relations so option 3 was the only one. I am not sure why you think there's no risk of non-EU approved goods crossing the border in to the EU if there is essentially no border. Bringing goods in to a country where they are prohibited is certainly illegal, it's called smuggling