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Thread #162623 Message #3872523
Posted By: Kampervan
19-Aug-17 - 05:38 AM
Thread Name: BS: G.B. and N.I.?
Subject: RE: BS: G.B. and N.I.?
I don't believe that either Ireland or the UK WANT to harden the border; the problem is that anything that crosses from the north into Ireland can then move freely to anywhere else in the EU.
The EU wants to see a system that ensures that anything that does cross into Ireland is compliant.
If we can come up with the means of doing this then a hard border will not be necessary.
But it will be interesting to see how they approach this given that in many places there are farms that straddle the border and so moving say a load of potatoes from one end of a barn to another effectively takes them from outside to inside the EU