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uawchild

(2,208 posts) Thu Jul 28, 2016, 12:45 PM Jul 2016

Ireland plans for 'soft-border' with UK after Brexit

Source: Reuters

Ireland is planning a system of electronic border surveillance that it hopes will prevent it having to erect physical barriers with Northern Ireland when Britain leaves the European Union, its customs service said on Thursday.

The unexpected result of the June 23 referendum in which UK citizens voted to leave the EU created a delicate problem for Ireland, which will remain in the free-trade, free-movement bloc and has the only land border with the United Kingdom.

The governments of Britain and Ireland, countries with a close but troubled history, have both said they do not want to put border posts back on roads into Northern Ireland, a partly self-governing UK province.

While Britain is keen to secure some kind of free-trade deal with the EU, exactly how that would work, and what would be the new rules for people moving in and out of the country, Ireland is preparing for at least some changes.

"Even if there is a free-trade agreement, we will still need to know what is being traded, what is crossing the border," Irish Customs Deputy Director General Anthony Buckley told a conference in Dublin.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-ireland-border-idUSKCN1081V9

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Ireland plans for 'soft-border' with UK after Brexit (Original Post) uawchild Jul 2016 OP

A bigger might be what kind of border the UK wants. pampango Jul 2016 #1

The rate of smuggling is going to absolutely explode whether it is a staffed border, OnDoutside Jul 2016 #2

pampango

(24,692 posts)

1. A bigger might be what kind of border the UK wants.

Reply to uawchild (Original post)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 03:10 PM

Jul 2016

Ireland is very immigrant-friendly while the UK, with Brexit, is not. The UK's right may not want a 'soft' border with Ireland through which Irish and other EU immigrants could pass.

OnDoutside

(19,962 posts)

2. The rate of smuggling is going to absolutely explode whether it is a staffed border,

Reply to pampango (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 28, 2016, 07:40 PM

Jul 2016

electronic border or whatever. SF/IRA and Loyalist criminals still make a lot of illegal money through its "financiers" like Thomas "Slab" Murphy on the Republican side for example, who runs all sorts of rackets such as Diesel Laundering. There's a dye that is added to diesel used for farm equipment, so they get the fuel at a much lower cost. The likes of Murphy buy that dyed diesel, wash the dye out, and sell it as normal diesel throughout their criminal network.

A Brexit opens up the possibility to smuggle all sorts of goods.

Frau Merkel has been quite insistent of a strong border, so we'll see if she's willing to pay for it.

ASIDE from ALL that, if the UK want free movement of goods with the EU, Merkel has said that they have to sign up to free movement of EU Migrants. Plus there are so many Irish passport holders in the UK, it just isn't practical not to let free movement between them, continue, while the biggest ethnic group in Ireland is UK passport holders.

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