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Irish EU minister: Post-Brexit North-South hard border ‘not acceptable’

02 July 2016

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"Ireland’s EU minister has told EurActiv.com that any post-Brexit border between Northern Ireland and the Republic should allow status quo in terms of movement of goods or people, and a ‘hard border’ would be “unacceptable." ...

Well we said throughout the campaign and we continue to say now that any measures to restrict the movement of goods or people with border-related measures would be regretted as backward moving steps. That’s our position with respect to the movement of goods and people notwithstanding the UK vote, but as far as at all possible the status quo should be maintained."

See the full article: Irish EU minister: Post-Brexit North-South hard border ‘not acceptable’ (euractiv, link)

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