A country of “paralysed, discredited politicians”, headed by the Prime Minister, Theresa May, “the lack of basic political qualities such as ingenuity and strategic agility” – the editorial of the prestigious “Irish Times” summed it up on Thursday, the opinion of the Irish Establishment about the neighbours, the UK. All the more welcome for the short visit of Angela Merkel in Dublin: The German Chancellor, would “give a clear picture” of the situation on the intra-Irish border, it said in the Irish capital.
The conservative Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar had invited specially people from the border region between the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, counting Northern Ireland. They wanted to lead the visitor from Berlin in a graphic way, how radically would change your everyday life, if it comes along, the currently completely open, 300-Kilometer border to border and customs controls.
Actually, that nobody wants, the two governments affirm it anyway, as well as the EU. Together a catch-all solution (backstop) had been written, therefore, in December 2017 for Northern Ireland: Should no other agreement, remains the property of the British part of the green island in the customs Union and large Parts of the internal market of the EU. Because the unionist party DUP with hands and feet fought against it, obtained May, last November, outlet contract, a concession to the UK. Now the whole of the UK should not remain in the customs Union, if the future free trade agreement will be ready in time.
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the intra-got Irish border, in addition to the legal position of EU citizens in the UK, as well as the payment obligations of the long-standing member in the exit negotiations is of Central importance, are recorded in Dublin’s diplomats as a great success. “For the first Time in the anglo-Irish negotiating history, London has less weight,” was the bitter conclusion of the former British EU Ambassador Ivan Rogers. However, DUP and Brexit-the Ultras in the conservative party in government the backstop for the occasion, may’s exit contract to refuse consent. Whether pretext or genuine concern – the Blockade in London to the chaotic withdrawal of the UK (“No Deal”) is always more likely.
Anti-Brexit-Protest. Protesters build up on the border, a customs control point.Photo: Paul Faith/AFP
by the end of next week, and that scenario is threatening for Ireland to become a reality, you just wanted to avoid: the border controls, and thus may be a Flare up of the conflict between Catholics and Protestants, should be the resolve of the common peace agreement of good Friday 1998.
Whether the British avoid the No Deal yet? The permanent membership in a customs Union with the largest internal market in the world it went out on Thursday in London again between Mays Brexit-Minister Stephen Barclay and his Labour counterpart, Keir Starmer. Meanwhile, advised the Lords in the upper house on Wednesday with 313:312 votes of the second chamber of the Parliament, passed a law, the verb is a longer EU-body prescribes. The house of his afternoon meeting had to because it was raining once again through the roof.
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the government and the Parliament in Dublin, tried last month to make the house reasonably weather-resistant. 15 emergency measures to preserve the green island in front of the worst Brexit-shock. Because not only the intra-Irish border constitutes a difficult Problem; no residents of the seventh largest economy in the world would be Chaos-Brexit more affected than the green island. The Dublin Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank have published gloomy forecasts. The Chaos-Brexit will slow down the least robust 7.5 per cent, growing the economy massively and the green island in the medium term, a six-percent cost growth, believe the government economists. One of the worst affected sectors of Irish agriculture is 37 per cent of its exports worth 4.5 billion euros will go to the larger neighboring island.
