Northern Ireland Democratic Unionist Party will take legal action against Brexit

Monday, February 22nd 2021 - 08:15 UTC

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Members of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) are set to take part in legal action challenging part of Brexit, the party said on Sunday. DUP opposes the Northern Ireland protocol, which covers post-Brexit trade between Britain and Northern Ireland, because it creates barriers between the British region and the rest of the UK and has caused disruptions. Read full article

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Don Alberto
The only alternatives are between NI and RoI
Hard Border
or
Border between NI and Britain.

Do they perhaps prefer a hard border between NI and RoI?
Feb 24th, 2021 - 06:11 pm - Link - Report abuse +1
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Pugol-H
Don Alberto

75% of NI business is done with the rest of UK, only some 15% with the ROI, so no brainer where the border is going to end up once they get to vote on it in 4 years time.

However a “Hard Border” is not necessary in any direction as with the EU and Norway or Switzerland, the US and Canada or Australia and NZ.

For the EU to claim that the internal market is in danger from verifiable and traceable good being shipped to NI, as they have always been, conforming to all EU standards and regulations, is laughable.

Just as their invoking of article 16, for fear of quantities of corona virus vaccines being shipped out of The EU via the Irish border, was laughable.

If the EU do not take a much more constructive approach to making this protocol work, arguments are going to run and run and the protocol may not even survive to the vote in 4 years time.
Feb 28th, 2021 - 01:38 pm - Link - Report abuse -2
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