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Originally Posted by jfman
You don’t. Shipments can be checked entering and exiting the UK to ensure they didn’t go for a detour.
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Indeed, the EU are concerned about this which is why it’s a backstop or a border.
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It was Dublin that insisted on the backstop and including it as part of the Withdrawal Agreement, in order to IMPOSE conditions on the UK.
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In October Kenny agreed with the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, that technical talks between officials in Brussels and Dublin would open. They met again in January 2017 and agreed “there was no technical solution” to the border.
They were beginning to realise that only a political solution – specifically, regulatory alignment between Northern Ireland and the EU – could avert a hard border. This was the genesis of the backstop.
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The Irish goal was to get the border into a legally binding withdrawal agreement – Dublin’s point of maximum leverage – rather than future trade relations, when Dublin would struggle to be heard.
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