it creates a trade border in the irish sea, by keeping northern ireland in the eu single market for goods, enforcing eu customs rules at the ports, to prevent a hardening of the land border. and unionists view it as a threat to their place in the united kingdom. that fear was blamed for trouble on the streets at easter. the uk has delayed introducing some food checks until october, a move the eu has gone to court over. technical talks continue. the new dup leader edwin poots claimed the northern ireland peace process was being damaged. i don t want to use a threat of violence in terms of this. 0ur arguments are very clear, they are very coherent. this is the european union seeking to punish the united kingdom and, as a consequence, northern ireland is being used as a plaything for the european union. i can assure you, northern ireland should be nobody s plaything. the eu commission vice president rejected that. i think we are working absolutely flat out to make sure
would have to be recruited plus one hundred forty three veterinarians for the food checks and that would only be the beginning says the briggs an expert at the port of rotterdam. the terminal so at the border the vet s office we re in the process of getting ready were informing the container terminals in the forwarders but that s not enough because most of the goods twenty five percent of them come from germany and we don t have the feeling that exporters in germany are as aware of bricks of problems as we are here. in fact the dutch ministry of economic affairs has sent a checklist called the brig s of scan to thousands of companies to better prepare them for possible problems run boy once filled out the questionnaire but it hasn t made his worries disappear the stone dealer imports slate from wales and sells it to garden centers some of them in germany he expects rising prices and a fluctuating british pound he s already made provisions of his own way by storing
the english channel every minute and the supply chain is precisely timed but people here fear that could all grind to a halt of britain leaves the e.u. without a trade deal. the door sill of the overall conclusion would have to introduce controls on all products especially vegetables and fruit sanitary checks for customs papers and that will be a real setback for us because the british and other third largest importer of dutch vegetables. authorities at the port of rotterdam aren t thrilled about the prospect they handle a large part of the trade with great britain almost ten percent of dutch exports go to the united kingdom officials have long calculated what a hard bricks it would cost instead of one paper nine more customs forms would be added for the export of fruit and vegetables nine hundred new customs officers would have to be recruited plus one hundred forty three veterinarians for the food checks and that would only be the beginning says the briggs an expert at the port
to the united kingdom officials have long calculated what a hard bricks it would cost instead of one paper knowing more customs forms would be added for the export of fruit and vegetables nine hundred new customs officers would have to be recruited plus one hundred forty three veterinarians for the food checks and that would only be the beginning says the briggs an expert at the port of rotterdam. the terminal so at the border the vet s office we re in the process of getting ready were informing the. terminals in the forwarders but that s not enough because most of the goods twenty five percent of them come from germany and we don t have the feeling that exporters in germany are as aware of bricks of problems as we are here. in fact the dutch ministry of economic affairs has sent a checklist called the briggs and scam to thousands of companies to better prepare them for possible problems run by means filled out the questionnaire but it hasn t made his worries disappear the stone dealer