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Details, details, details - North-South cooperation in Ireland parliament.uk/documents/comm…
More details -"Customs Facilitations in a No-Deal Scenario"

If you're thinking a politician who doesn't know Dover-Calais is a major trade route is no way mastering this, congratulations you just discovered why officials conduct international negotiations economy-ni.gov.uk/sites/default/…
I am told more details on Brexit/Ireland will come soon. Now, if at some point we can move away from 'invented problem which can be solved yesterday' to 'phenomenally complex political, legal and technical challenge' I think that may be helpful
Incidentally that also applies to the idea that if there was a Withdrawal Agreement the details of the Irish backstop could be defined in 9 months. Extremely unlikely. This stuff really is horribly complicated.
More details of Ireland and Brexit - as produced by hard-working officials on all sides. Who absolutely don't deserve to be attacked by UK politicians for laying out the facts but I suspect... ec.europa.eu/commission/sit…
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David Henig
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Then the EU says no as it has made clear repeatedly, Parliament refuses to back no-deal, and you do what next precisely?

On a related note, any chance you also tell us what's in the Free Trade Agreement that apparently is the answer?

#nosubstance
Not exactly winning colleagues over either
And here's another #troubleatmill
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David Henig
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Little Saturday rewind. Reason I keep contradicting those saying or implying the EU will backtrack on the Brexit red lines is that I spent 3 years hearing US complaints about the EU, in TTIP talks, and then how the EU dismissed these internally. Going to be nicer to the UK?
Some of those suggesting the EU will backtrack have experience of negotiating - but within the EU. Where the UK was one of the biggest players and there was an art to bending apparent red lines to reach compromise. Totally different in international negotiations.
Looks like @DmitryOpines is thinking similarly about realism versus naive optimism in Brexit talks.
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No deal means no deal, and in a contest over contemporary facts between Mark Carney and Boris Johnson I think we all know who is more likely to be correct.
If Johnson in power tries to go Trump-like with regard to facts I think he'll find the going quite tough, but can't be ruled out
Insider tip, real trade policy types don't go on about WTO Article 24 but the definition of 'substantially all trade' that an agreement needs to be compliant with it. Because it's so bleeding obvious that agreement = agreement and no-agreement = well guess what...
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