Sentences with phrase «soft border»

For the Republic of Ireland, adopting a «soft border strategy» means holding fast to its insistence on regulatory alignment even at the cost of a long - term trade deal between the Republic (and the rest of the EU) and the UK.

First, with the soft tofu, and I do mean soft, for those of you in the UK / Ireland I used Cauldron's original tofu which is so soft it borders on silken (but don't use silken here!)

We shape - shift while opening windows, closing folders and browsing through reflecting surfaces; soft borders permanently redefining our identities.

At present it is the softest of soft borders, not only in the sense of being unpoliced, but in the sense of there being a deep - rooted borderlands culture stretching north and south about which the Conservative MP for the Borders Rory Stewart has written eloquently (see «Loyalty of the borderlands», Prospect, March 2012 and his wider ranging claims about «Middleland» in his TV series Border Country).

Worryingly, these institutions are attempting to go even further and are issuing diktats ordering countries to have soft border controls, grant immigrants more rights and criticising cutbacks to public spending.

The pigmentation of the blush is buildable, but always nicely to blend out to create soft borders.

There might also be trouble brewing in Ireland over the soft border that currently exists between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland — the only land border between the U.K. and the EU.

It had adopted a soft border strategy.

For the UK this means that the government would reject the DUP's position (potentially endangering its own majority in the commons) and agree to some kind of regulatory alignment between Northern Ireland and the Republic in order to achieve a soft border between the two.

Say that each side has one of two possible strategies that it might push for: hard border; and soft border.

If they are willing to play hard ball for a soft border — to be willing to damage their own economic interests for the sake of preventing a hard border — then it is still possible that the UK would be forced to acquiesce.

Ireland is happy - it gets a soft border and regulatory alignment.

Hence if the Republic of Ireland continues to push for a soft border as talks progress, then expect to see it being put under considerable pressure from its European partners.

If the UK adopts a soft border strategy, then the logical thing for the Irish government to do is to agree.

There will also be warm words from May on the need for a soft border in Ireland.

It will be around this table that the big dogs of Mrs May's Cabinet will find their zen with customs union, hard or soft borders and the transition period.

Instead, the key is that there is enormous political will for a soft border and that the ball is now in the UK's court to propose constructive island - specific solutions.

Membership of the customs union is widely considered a prerequisite to a soft border yet precludes the negotiation of separate trade arrangements outside the institutional framework of the European Union.

At another respecting the Good Friday agreement mandates a soft border in Ireland.

@Qwerky «A soft border between Ireland and NI could be seen as an individual trade deal for Ireland» - Any official word on that?

This is not compatible with a soft border in Northern Ireland, because those trade deals (like all trade deals) are certain to include a requirement that the UK controls the import of goods to make sure that goods shipped from the UK to the country in question are genuinely from the UK and haven't slipped into the UK from a country not included in the trade deal, such as Ireland.

@iain: Because the Council, the EC, and the EP all made it clear that ECJ jurisdiction was a sine qua none condition to getting a soft border.

I presume the EU can not legally force a country that is not a member to enforce its border with them and it can't force the UK to remain an EU member if it decides on a soft border.

By contrast, a soft border can not protect the trade agreements of the single market from benefiting the UK, nor can it protect against the exploitation of any of the UK's future trade agreements.

It seems to be assumed, and yet it's been a soft border for almost 100 years:

We need to do more than just back a soft Brexit or guarantee a soft border in Ireland.»

«Labour needs to do more than just back a soft Brexit or guarantee a soft border in Ireland,» he argues.

The work, a glass wall that holds a mixture of lithographs and photographs of flowers and stretches 4 meters high and 34 meters long, acts as a soft border or barrier between those who arrive... Read more