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Wednesday 4 August 2021
“We need to go back to the drawing board.”
A group of DUP members have engaged senior legal counsel to prepare for a series of challenges to the protocol.
Friday saw the first ferries arrive in Ireland from Britain under new trade rules following the end of the Brexit transition period.
Number 10 has said that it’s “entirely possible that negotiations will not succeed”.
Unfettered access to GB from NI, and declaration on goods from GB to Northern Ireland.
There’s a backlog of around 320,000 applications to go through, according to the UK Home Office.
The two sides are well apart on a final agreement.
The British Government said it wanted to reach its own, separate fast-track extradition arrangement with Brussels.
With requirements for pet travel to the UK likely to change with Brexit, the government is ordering a lot more pet passports.
Over half of Irish importers source 75% or more of their imports from the UK.
“I will leave UKIP amicably, cheerfully and in the knowledge that we won.”
Some think the time is right, economically and politically – particularly after the Brexit vote. Others aren’t sure, saying it would only serve to heighten sectarian tensions.
Visits from the British market increased by almost 9.5% in the last three months.
A German think tank survey has found that Ireland will be impacted in both the short-term and long-term.
LAST WEEK, THE Oireachtas budgetary oversight committee recommended that the Government examine the introduction of congestion charges to help pay for the cost of climate change.
In 2003, London introduced a £5 levy for driving into a relatively small area of central London between 7am and 6.30pm on weekdays, with exemptions for taxis, emergency vehicles and people living inside the zone.
Aside from some supposedly temporary pandemic tightening, the scheme remains the same in its essentials today and is widely hailed as a success.
Pete Lunn, head of the Behavioural Research Unit at the Economic and Social Research Institute, said it is “incontrovertible” that these charges are an effective way to reduce congestion.
So today we’re asking: Should Ireland bring in congestion charges?
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