Ireland will not countenance checks on its exports at EU ports following any no-...
DUBLIN - Ireland will not countenance checks on its exports at EU ports following any no-deal Brexit as a result of its plan to keep an open border with Northern Ireland, Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said on Tuesday.
That becomes an even more difficult task in a no-deal Brexit as Dublin has also pledged to maintain the integrity of the EU’s single market, where goods move freely around the bloc without the need for checks. The bulk of Irish exports to the continental EU are shipped via the UK. “That is something that we do not have an agreed plan on but we are working this week and presumably next week on, if we need to, in the context of a no-deal Brexit,” Coveney said, referring to meetings with the EU Commission he said had begun last week.
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