In the 117-page document, officials in Dublin cautioned that if the U.K. were to leave the EU, without first agreeing to the terms in Theresa May's negotiated Withdrawal Agreement, there would be "severe macroeconomic, trade and sectoral challenges both in the immediate term and in the longer term" for Ireland, because of its reliance on the bilateral trading relationship with the U.K.
This has long proven politically contentious for the government of Ireland's prime minister, Leo Varadkar, who has hoped that internal and external pressure on the British government would prevent that particular course of action. Coveney acknowledged in his public remarks Tuesday that the need for checks on goods would have to be balanced against a separate requirement that there be no physical infrastructure on Ireland's international border with Northern Ireland.
Outgoing British Prime Minister Theresa May and her negotiating team struggled for two years with this conundrum, and yet both her potential successors in Downing Street have failed to explain clearly how they would resolve the problem, to the satisfaction of Dublin, Brussels and a voting majority of the Westminster parliament.
Of course it's a significant risk the British pay a majority of all United Nations functioning costs. If they left it would be that much weaker overall. Personally I think Britain as well as all countries should contain and control themselves.
I’m really looking forward the the return of Elizabethan England borders.
Their ambassador calls Trump inept but it seems like his own government is worse off.
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