He said any upside for Ireland, in terms of jobs and firms that relocate from the U.K., would be far outweighed by disadvantages such as additional customs controls, bureaucratic burdens on business and disruption to pan-Irish agricultural markets. [...]
Asked about the recent flurry of position papers from the U.K. government, Bruton said: “They’re not about substance, they’re about procedure. The substance is what level of tariff you’re going to charge, will Britain pursue a cheap food policy? Will Britain automatically accept standards laid down by the EU and rulings laid down by the European Court of Justice? Those are the substantial questions and those have not been addressed yet.” [...]
“Whether the hard border occurs at the border, or 10 or 15 or 50 miles either side of the border, you are still going to have to have a system to check whether goods entering the European Union in Ireland from the U.K. meet EU standards of safety, meet EU standards of rules of origin, and have paid … all the relevant EU tariffs, which in some cases are very high indeed,” he said, speaking from Ireland earlier this week.
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