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'Leaving the EU’s single market and customs union, with at best a few days notice of the terms on which the UK is leaving, is a recipe for a harder, more costly border'
THE European Commission on Tuesday stepped into the border chaos caused by wide-ranging EU travel bans on those coming from the UK and the French block on freight, calling for full bans to be lifted.
The France-UK border closure has been painful and damaging but also brings sharply into focus the reality of the interdependence of the UK and EU economies. Brexiteer illusions of a stand-alone sovereign independence have been exposed for what they are – ideological fantasies.