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Or just treat them as they do any other non-EU country? The special deals and preferential treatment come with being in the EU. When you leave, they stop. Fair’

• timellis-smith 5y ago
  Not sure. "A fifth of all EU border checks are now happening in Northern Ireland, the government has said." https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/unsustainable-level-of-eu-checks-happening-in-ni-40404848.html https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/brexit/unsustainable... There is a distinct possibility that the EU is being vindictive
  • dhosek 5y ago
    Or there is the distinct possibility that this was a heavily-traversed border pre-Brexit and with Brexit it now requires a lot of border checks.
    • timellis-smith 5y ago
      I'm not going to argue whether the actual statement is true or not: Many people don't trust the government at the best of times but if it is true, I seriously doubt whether it constitutes 1/5 of all EU trade (assuming that border checks are in proportion to trade).
      • Swizec 5y ago
        Or people who live just across the border where there previously was none continue to commute to work daily, now across a border. With time countries usually end up passing treaties to make these regular passings easier. When you are a country newly enforcing the Schengen border it’s a high faff affair and closely scrutinized. I remember when Slovenia first got the border it caused huge problems and long delays.
        • rjsw 5y ago
          > Or people who live just across the border where there previously was none continue to commute to work daily, now across a border. The checks are at the ports in NI, the whole point of the agreement between the EU and UK was to avoid any checks at the land border between NI and the Irish Republic.