Northern Ireland: The Protocol and the Peril
| Author | Katy Hayward |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/20419058221127472 |
| Published date | 01 September 2022 |
| Date | 01 September 2022 |
36POLITICAL INSIGHT•SEPTEMBER 2022
That Northern Ireland emerged as
the ashpoint in Britain’s Brexit
ambitions is hardly surprising. It
is a part of the United Kingdom
connected to the EU with a land border and
to Great Britain by a sea border. The 499km
land border has more than 200 ocially-
recognised crossing points; the sea border
has four main entry points. It is, thus, easier
to monitor what enters and exits Northern
Northern Ireland:
The Protocol and
the Peril
Northern Ireland has been the defining issue in post-Brexit relations
between the UK and the EU. But difficulties over the Protocol are
best understood as symptoms, not causes, of the pres ent danger to
the Good Friday Agreement, writes Katy Hayward.
Ireland by sea and air than by road, rail or
river: a fact that Brexit has brought into stark
relief.
The fundamental issue – which the
Northern Ireland Protocol was an attempt to
solve – is that the EU needs to know what
enters its single market and customs union,
which the UK chose to leave. This requires
a hard border between the UK and the EU.
In simple terms, a hard border entails the
means to know what is crossing the border
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