Eu Invokes Article 16. Hard Border In Ireland Is Now A Reality.

[Sunk]

Within just a few weeks of Brexit, the EU have invoked article 16 which will stop free trade across the UK/EU border. The are trying to stop vaccines being exported and imported. Precisely where this leaves the Good Friday Agreement is unclear.

Is this the start of the unravelling of EU/UK post Brexit peace?

[royfromaus]

Apportion some blame...go on, who is at fault here?

[New Judge]

The UK - for agreeing to such an outrageous agreement (the Northern Ireland Protocol) in the first place. Hopefully this will see the end of it.

[fender62]

federal europe..or germany and france in reality, let do it, i dont give a toss..shows the for what they really are.

[Theland]

I've always favoured a hard border in Ireland. Skating around the problems instead of confronting them is no way to proceed.

[Sunk]

Roy,
The Northern Ireland Protocol was always a fudge, but I suspect no one thought it would all fall apart in just 4 weeks.
Both parties are to blame, it was always a flawed agreement. The have taken the move of invoking article 16, so they have pushed it over the cliff.

[Sunk]

* The EU have taken the move of invoking article 16

[ichkeria]

Remember when people did links?

Here is one which explains it in less lurid terms

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-55864442

[Togo]

How many vaccines do you suppose would have travelled from the EUSSR controlled South to the North? Me as well. Perhaps they are trying to prevent the Irish citizens from receiving the benefit of vaccines delivered from the North which would make them look even more moribund. Oh dear. Proof of the intent all along if ever it was needed. Some of us say told ya so.

[ichkeria]

So as I understand it the EU is initiating controls on exports of vaccines made there.
And what they’ve now done is included N Ireland in those checks whereas under the Brexit fudge they were exempt. They don’t want their exports coming into the UK via the “back door”.
No one is actually stopping “free trade” - actually there is no free trade as such but never mind.
It dire of course have the potential to escalate but one would hope it wouldn’t.
There was no agreement on earth involving N Ireland GB and the EU which sooner or later wasn’t going to lead to trouble

[Togo]

//So as I understand it the EU is initiating controls on exports of vaccines made there.//

Well done ... you are half way there. On top of that they are insisting that they have control of vaccines made here. Haha. They can't get their heads round the fact that the one way street that has been in operation for 40 odd years is now 2 way or no way. Time to teach these resentful creeps a few manners.

[jno]

ah, the good old days of the Irish Pig Roundabout are not to return, then?

It's hard to believe this wasn't foreseen a month ago, when Covid had already been a problem for months and vaccines were already being produced.

[Togo]

We should flood N.I. with millions of doses and invite the Republicans to cross the border for a vaccine at a tenner a head ... and pressure the Irish Government to pay the travelling expenses of it's people. They could send the bill to Brussels couldn't they. Imagine a few vaccination marquees just inside the border with the Royal Army Hospital Corps doing the vaccines.

[New Judge]

Need to restrict it to Irish citizens, though togo. Otherwise there will be boatloads of our European friends making the crossing from Santander to Dun Laoghaire.

[ichkeria]

“ Well done ... you are half way there. On top of that they are insisting that they have control of vaccines made here. Haha”

We well, for what it’s worth, no, they aren’t.
As far as I know, rightly or wrongly, they are demanding that AZ supply their contract from UK factories to make up the shortfall.
I don’t know the ins and outs of the contract, but I suspect it was a poorly written one and both sides are claiming the moral high ground.
Here is the so called civilised world oversupplied with drugs, fighting like rats to save their skins.
Wry smiles all round from the third world.

[Peter Pedant]

god this thread is crazy
even for AB

[royfromaus]

The morons are going to backtrack,

I'll look forward to the apology.

[ToraToraTora]

[ToraToraTora]

what a gutless shower the EUSSR are, could not get their own April in gear so now they try and steal the march on us, kin priceless! Are you watching remoaners? bet you are feeling a bit silly now?

[ToraToraTora]

"Hard Border In Ireland Is Now A Reality." - crikey they built that quick! PMSL, they've bottled it already!