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A Sinn Féin demonstrations against a hard border. Post-Brexit border controls are a controversial issue. There have been worries among unionists that the Irish government's position is a covert attempt to gain more power over the region in order to promote a united Ireland, [30] a position the Irish government has denied. [31]
The Irish Sea border is an informal term for the trade border between Northern Ireland and Great Britain.It was specified by the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol of the Brexit withdrawal agreement (February 2020), was refined by the Joint Committee in December 2020, [1] and came into effect on 1 January 2021 following the end of the Brexit transition period.
Following the Brexit vote in 2016, a mockumentary about a fictional post-Brexit border patrol named the Soft Border Patrol was produced by the BBC. In 2018, an anonymous Twitter account called @BorderIrish gained notability tweeting as the Irish border in the first person, and the implications that Brexit would have for it. [59] [60] [61]
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has announced that the UK Government will legislate to override elements of the post-Brexit trading arrangements. Key questions on the latest twist to the Irish Sea ...
A proposed law which could help limit the impact of the Irish Sea border between Northern Ireland the rest of the UK will continue to be debated in the House of Lords on Wednesday. The law is ...
Stormont will vote on whether NI's Brexit deal should ... The flipside is that goods arriving from elsewhere in the UK are subject to controls and checks—what is known as the Irish Sea border.
On 9 September 2017, the EU Commission published several negotiating papers, including "Guiding Principles on the Dialogue for Ireland/Northern Ireland". In this, the EU declares that it is the responsibility of the UK to propose solutions for the post-Brexit Irish border.
Ministerial orders confirm the ‘splitting’ of Northern Ireland from the British mainland, the House of Lords heard.