Tag: North Ireland

• Saturday, July 21st 2018 - 07:51 UTC

  EU finds some “good points” in PM May's post Brexit blueprint, but clarifications are needed

  

  The EU's top negotiator Michel Barnier expressed doubts on Friday Jul 20 over Britain's new Brexit blueprint for future trade ties with the European Union, as he called for “rapidly” settling outstanding issues like the Irish border.

• Friday, July 20th 2018 - 06:49 UTC

  Theresa May on a two-day visit to North Ireland to bolster her Brexit plan

  

  Prime Minister Theresa May will tell the people of Northern Ireland on Friday that her Brexit plan is the best way to avoid a hard border with Ireland, standing firm against critics in her own party.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2018 - 07:03 UTC

  Deepening fears about the Irish border in a hard Brexit scenario, says Queen's University report

  

  Fears are deepening on the Irish border over a hard Brexit, researchers showed. Almost half of residents are against a technological solution to customs checks, according to a study of those living on both sides of the frontier by Queen’s University Belfast academics.

• Saturday, April 21st 2018 - 07:42 UTC

  Irish border remains stumbling block in Brexit negotiations

  

  Fresh doubts have been raised over Theresa May’s hopes for a deal on future relations with Europe, after reports that her proposals for the Irish border have been comprehensively rejected in Brussels. One report of a meeting this week between Britain’s lead negotiator Olly Robbins and senior EU officials suggested that the Prime Minister’s plans for avoiding a hard border with the Republic were subjected to “a systematic and forensic annihilation”.

• Wednesday, March 14th 2018 - 09:39 UTC

  Taoiseach Varadkar insists in an open “invisible” Ireland border

  

  Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has dismissed claims that people crossing the Irish border would have to pre-register after Brexit. Speaking from the United States, where he is conducting a series of St Patrick’s Day engagements, the Taoiseach said: “No, it is not a solution that we envisage.”

• Monday, March 5th 2018 - 09:33 UTC

  An Irish “hard border” remains at the center of UK/EU Brexit debate

  

  The European Union is unlikely to accept the UK's latest proposal for avoiding a “hard border” on the island of Ireland after Brexit, the Irish government has said. Theresa May has said 80% of firms would face no new customs checks between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic and others would be simplified.

• Thursday, March 1st 2018 - 09:58 UTC

  Theresa May meets Donald Tusk before her major post-Brexit speech on Friday

  

  British Prime Minister Theresa May will meet top EU official Donald Tusk this Thursday, 24 hours before a major speech on British relations with the bloc after Brexit. Her talks with the European Council president come amid tensions over the EU's draft withdrawal treaty.

• Wednesday, February 28th 2018 - 09:23 UTC

  North Ireland “hard border” controversy surfaces in in London and Brussels

  

  The British government has dismissed any prospect of a return to a “hard border” on the island of Ireland after Brexit. It followed the leak of a letter from Boris Johnson in which he appeared to contemplate future customs border checks after the UK leaves the EU.

• Saturday, January 27th 2018 - 09:15 UTC

  Relief in Canada and North Ireland: Bombadier wins trade dispute with the US

  

  The Canadian aerospace firm which faced damaging import tariffs on one of its jets has won a trade dispute in the United States. The UK government had suspected that Bombardier would lose and unions feared sales and UK jobs connected to the C-Series would be hit. But in a surprise ruling, the US International Trade Commission (ITC) rejected a complaint brought by Boeing.

• Thursday, November 30th 2017 - 08:46 UTC

  London prepared to devolve powers to Belfast as part of Brexit deal, reports The Times

  

  Britain is considering devolving certain powers to Northern Ireland to avoid the possibility of a hard border with the Republic of Ireland after Brexit, according to a report from The Times.