For years a lot of talk and expected in terms of Brexit. Just before the end, but it seems to only go to a 500 – Kilometer-long border between Ireland and Northern Ireland. There are many dangers threaten.
You could, if there was Drama to the last act in the Brexit-from a long civil war, talk of more than 3400 dead in this war, and some 40,000 injured. The decade-long conflict on the island of Ireland is only since 1998 beige. But one could also talk of Irish cheese and North Irish fish. And of Guinness and Baileys. So we want to start.
So we are not going once the “Backstop”, with the Northern Ireland Problem should be regulated according to the will of the EU when it comes to Brexit. We can also supposedly “technological solutions” for the border control from the point of view from which the Brexit advocates Boris Johnson had so warms long, if the speech of Northern Ireland came from. Let’s look at what is actually happening at this border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
270 streets
It is on this 500-Kilometer-long border between the South and the North of Ireland, therefore, between the EU and the UK, the North of Ireland, to the 270 road crossings, and all the way through the green meadows, no one that counts anyway. On these roads between 14,000 and 16,000 trucks on a day-to-day on-the-go. They carry cheese, livestock, milk, fish, beer, Whiskey and everything you need, beer and Whiskey, and cheese.
We first take the cheese. Melting cheese from Ireland is everywhere in the EU, and is a co-production between the North and the South. Four Times it goes back and forth on the currently non-existing limit, also German Newspapers to know now, before made from raw milk from the North, slices of cheese are supplied from the South in the EU.
Not much different it is with beer and liquor. The brewery for Guinness is in Dublin, bottled but will be in Belfast. The ingredients of the cream liqueur Baileys to come out of Ireland, together they are stirred but in the North, the liqueur exports leave from the South of the island, – five times it goes back and forth. The supply chains between the two island parts are everywhere closely: In the South almost every third sheep from the North will be slaughtered; in the North it is the second chicken from the South to the collar.
Border between Ireland and Northern Ireland
The 30,000 commuters
Since the border between the Republic and Northern Ireland in 1998, fell, has seen the economy in both Parts of the island a strong economic recovery. Alone, unemployment in the North fell from 13 percent today to 3.5 percent. Around 30,000 commuters cross, in the meantime, every day the former border, to produce and to package, sell and.
The border would be pulled back up, would be on said cheese customs fees by 42 percent due and payable prior to expected now is the “Frankfurt General Sunday newspaper”. So high-some protection is borders, customs at the EU external, in order to protect the domestic food industry. And after a Brexit Northern Ireland would not belong to it. The UK market would be, for example, for Irish meat suddenly behind the inch reinforced border. “If there is a hard Brexit, and we customs duties according to the rules of the world trade organization WTO would have to pay, that would be the end of the meat industry in our country,” said the cattleman, Joe Brady from the Irish Cavan County of DW. Finally, around half of its production went to the UK. Exactly 46% in the year 2017.
Ever exported from Ireland to 2017 is more to the UK than in any other EU country. A threat of a customs border would change that. The “Economic and Social Research Institute of Ireland” estimates that, in the case of a hard Brexit, the Irish economic growth within ten years, to five per cent would be reduced. Other experts speak of some of the other Numbers; worrying you all. Especially for the agriculture: Because even if, for example, in 2017, they received only twelve per cent of the total Irish exports to the UK, so it was in the case of agricultural products, but around 40 percent, said Joe Healy, chief of the Irish farmers Association.
Cattle from Ireland to the UK and the world
On the border
With markets in the UK and the EU and North America, Ireland is the sixth-largest meat exporter in the world. But here, too, the Brexit, with its then complicated border crossings to be a serious Problem for the green island. Finally, as in 2017 – roughly 475,000 Container of Irish Goods on British ports to EU-Europe. This corresponds to 85 percent of the Irish road freight in the EU. The narrow Rest of the way over to England, but via the ports of Dublin and Rotterdam or Zeebrugge.
Memories of brutal times: wall paintings in Belfast (in March 2017)
For a bottle of Baileys or a can of Guinness, may, here and there, an hour for customs formalities to the new, the old borders no Problem. But Seafood? The are often purchased from the fishermen in the Republic, in the North, processed, and consumed in the southern countries of the European Union. Twenty minutes of waiting at a border could ruin the delicate goods.
This may be due to other hazards a joke, and since the memory of the civil war plays but then on the island again. Control posts at the borders could once again be the focal points of the old conflict over Northern Ireland. “If we make the border a mistake”, the German “Handelsblatt quoted” now the former EU Commissioner Chris Patten, “again people are dying”. Patten was a good 40 years ago in London, Secretary of state for Northern Ireland. Now that the London government wants the Brexit at any price.
(archive material)