Consequences in Ireland del Norte
Introduction
Today, Brexit is still an unresolved problem and, with the current circumstances, a definitive agreement between the EU and RU seems to be quite in the air because the negotiations, as expected, are not being simple. Since its departure from the European Union in January of this year, the relative cohesion and stability enjoyed by the United Kingdom before its "divorce" with the European Union seems to have broken. Theresa May already realized that carrying out a "hard" brexit like the one that currently takes place.
Developing
It would have disastrous consequences and would lead to a tense political situation of complex governance. Apart from all the economic consequences of this break, no one seemed to have repaired (or perhaps, but it was ignored) that with Brexit the problem of the border with Ireland of the North would be reopened. A very sensitive and controversial issue among the Irish, since it has a long history behind. A brief review of the background will help us understand why this border is crucial when negotiations with Brexit.
In 1921 an Anglo-Irlandic treaty was signed in which it was established that Ireland of the North and Ireland of the South would be divided, the first would belong to RU, while the second would form an independent republic. During the second half of the twentieth century, Ireland was divided into two large groups faced, the unionists (Protestants), supporters of maintainIrish Republic outside Ru, which is known as the northern Ireland conflict.
The political-nationalist conflict began in 1968 when the police intervened a demonstration in Londonberry. Two years later, Ira (Irish Republican Army) caused several attacks creating a tense and bloody situation. Margaret Thatcher, in 1985, signed a new treaty in which he accepted that the Republic of Ireland could express his opinion in Norirendes affairs, which did not like the unionists who wanted to maintain their independence regarding the Republic of Ireland. Finally, in 1998, the Boly FRIDGE agreement or Belfast Agreement among Norirlands politicians was signed.
Like London and Dublin with the approval of the IRA. Northern Ireland recovered its autonomy and a coalition government between Protestants and Catholics formed. There are still walls in Belfast that separate the Protestant neighborhoods of the Catholics, walls that previously meant confrontation and that currently commemorate a past that nobody wants to live again. Graham Hinton, owner of a store in Belfast, declares for the BBC “is incredible what this area has changed in the last 20 years.
Formerly, I was afraid, a lot of fear, because there were shootings, bombs, murders. Instead, people from all over the world come. Australians, Mexicans, Americans, Chinese, is wonderful. This statement could now change due to Brexit, since the borders between Ireland and Norther. The Republic of Ireland advocates a Brexit that does not suppose a new confrontation between the two countries. But how is the subject right now?
Last September, the Irish government declared very worried about the change that Boris Johnson intended to do with respect to Brexit. The British Prime Minister advocates a hard Brexit, contrary to the agreement reached by the EU and RU when Brexit took place, which includes the "Northern Ireland and Ireland protocol". In this document there are three essential points related to the problem we have analyzed. First, it is established that there will be no rigid border between the two Ireland and that the island’s economy will remain as until now, respecting the Good Friday Agreement.
In addition, it maintains the integrity of the single market with the EU (and the guarantees that it includes). Finally, it establishes that Ireland of the North is maintained within the customs territory of Ru so that it can benefit from the possible free trade agreements that arise in the future between the British and other countries. This implies that Ireland of the North will follow some of the EU standards, such as the Customs Code of the Union (referring to the goods);that inspections will be carried out to review the goods from Ru to Ireland del Norte.
And that the EU customs rights will be applied to the goods that enter in Northern Ireland. To these measures, the "consent mechanism" that confers to the Northern Ireland Assembly the final decision regarding what it concerns it is joined with respect to what concerns it. Every four years, the assembly would ratify this agreement and notify the EU. The problem, in view, seems to be solved (at least temporarily), why, then, Johnson is not satisfied with the agreement and wants to establish more severe measures? The answer is unknown.
conclusion
It is likely that the prime minister considers it appropriate to break relations with the EU in a total way and that he considers that one of the four nations that make up the United Kingdom cannot depend on the rules that are imposed from Brussels, however, it must consider the exceptionality of the case. From the point of view of Sinn Féin (Irish party), this type of rupture, would lead to a referendum in Ireland so that the entire country returns to unifying out outside of Ru. Not everything is so simple, because tensions could generate that bloody and violent situation again that so many citizens still remember fearful.
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