Dammit-
But the NI border problems can all be solved with 'technology'. Or as they used to spell it in the good old days, 'Magick'.
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I thought so as well, but aparantly that is not needed. If you look at the withdrawal intention to agreement, they make some exceptions in it. Goods standards must be SM, but there is nothing about people. But, goods checks cannot be avoided completely.
However... the "gentleman's agreement" of the Common Travel area for UK/Ireland really has to be padded out to ensure there really is NO difference between UK and Irish citizens in NI.
Taxation may also be an issue, as right now working over the border is super easy.And businesses in NI are already screaming they can't find EU workers as it is so this doesn't help.
And as Prof Dougan points out, Scotland ain't too happy about NI have easier access to the EU than they do [customs union only] so......
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Not necessarily, as ROI is not in Schengen.
But to sort out products that meet the EU single market rules and ones that do not AND do that all away from the border while Sweden/Norway can't do that yet, wellllllllllllllllllllll......... it may take a while.
Switserland also has loads of special agreements which will also take a while.
So all this "Brexit will be easy and fast" will be "Slow and difficult" and then in 10 years, maybe, the UK can completely leave and I am not even sure what it wants. Corbyn wants something totally different from the ERG.