EU to Enforce Hard Border or KICK DUBLIN OUT of Single Market!
Well, Well, The Chickens are coming home to roost for the EU’s poodles in the Irish Republic. This from Joe Barnes, Brussels Correspondent Daily Express.
They chose their bedfellows and below is their thanks.
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IRELAND has been warned it faces the difficult choice between implementing a hard border or being forced out of the EU’s single market in an unprecedented move to protect the bloc from a no-deal Brexit.
Dublin will be forced to make the tough choice if Britain quits the EU without a deal, according to a number of EU figures.
The European Commission sparked fury from Ireland after declaring Dublin would have to implement a hard border in the event of a no-deal Brexit. After significant protests from Dublin, which involved a heated debate between Leo Varadkar and Jean-Claude Juncker, Michel Barnier, the EU’s chief negotiator, suggested “operational solutions” would have to be found in order to prevent a hardening of the border”.0
But now high-ranking MEPs have hardened their position, insisting the single market must not be compromised, even to maintain peace on the island of Ireland.
Elmar Brok, a German MEP with close ties to Angela Merkel, insisted that if Ireland failed to police its own borders, the EU would have to take its own protectionist action.
“We would have to set up a customs border with Ireland” the German said. He also warned that if Brussels didn’t make the demands then “we will soon have American chlorine chicken in the EU”. He said: The defence of the internal market is the basis of our economic success in Germany. If we destroy the Single Market, the EU is finished”.
Manfred Weber, another German MEP, who is also vying to become the next European Commission, said that Brussels must not be “blackmailed” over the Irish border.
“The internal market is essential for the EU”, he said. “We continue to hang in a vacuum, lacking a clear message for the British”.
Phillipe Lamberts, a Belgian MEP and a member of the EU Parliament’s Brexit Steering Group, warned that refusing to implement a hard border would give the British an “open door” into the bloc’s single market. “The British would have a 500km backdoor into the single market” he warned.
“If Ireland refuses to protect the border with Northern Ireland after a hard Brexit, we wsould have to relocate the customs border to the Continent”>
Mr Varadkar, the Irish prime minister, has previously suggested that checks could be carried out in ports in France and the Netherlands in order to keep them away from the border in a no-deal Brexit.
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The rest of the article just goes on about future meetings and Varadkar refusing to hold bilateral talks with Britain.
But… How predictable! I sincerely only hope Remainers can see to what extent the EU will go to protect its “Project”, even to the point of starting a war!!! They tried it in the Ukraine and now it’s Ireland’s turn. Hope Ireland now realise who their friends are, and it’s not the bureaucrats in the EU. They were warned. Ireland, just like Greece, were told to accept the terms of the EU bailout or get kicked out, now they are doing the same to Ireland. The EU don’t give a stuff about them or their welfare. It’s all about them and always has been. So much for Brussel’s comments recently of “The EU 27 are all Irish”.
Maybe now the ROI will realise that the EU have been playing them like a fiddle.
This is what they get when they have thick planks running the Country.
What say you?