Talks between May and Varadkar in Dublin as both sides refuse to back down

[Mike Hunt]

https://www.thejournal.ie/varadkar-may-talks-4481275-Feb2019/

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The Journal.ie is generally an excellent news source for Irish affairs so i'd recommend any posters looking to create threads on Ireland use it.

[Sableye]

Ireland shouldn't have to tear up their treaties with britain just because the british have gone mad, and the british should take a course in logic, trade, and maybe geography to understand why their position is a contradiction.

[Kotov]

I feel really bad for Ireland being caught up in this shit. They shouldn't need to join the UK in a dumb economic suicide pact (not that they will, Ireland actually has some degree of sense)

I also feel bad for Scotland for having basically being stabbed in the back by Westminster after the Independence Referendum after being told they wouldn't get to join the EU if they were independent and then a couple of years later they get pulled out of the EU anyway despite Scotland being the UK country having the highest percentage, and a decent majority of 62% with every single voting area voting to remain in the EU.

[Cyteless]

TMay's mistake was falling into the trap of taking the Brexiter red-line of removing FoM. There's plenty of models that the EU presented to us that would have facilitated an EU exit, on the notion that we'd retain FoM.

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This is the price the country pays for the government enabling xenophobic dog whistling to dictate policy. Our largest migrant intake is from non-EU countries, by the government's own figures, and EU policy states "Member States retain the right to determine volumes of admission for people coming from third countries to seek work."

Never mind the fact that the EU facilitates control over EU migration that the UK just does not enforce.

It's really irritating. As a Northern Irish citizen, I don't know whether my country's going to be dragged into economic turmoil, the Troubles are going to start again, or I'm going to lose my country all together with a referendum on Irish unity.

[EmperorScorpious]

What about refugees?

[Cyteless]

I don't know what refugee policy in the EU is, but I'd imagine it's facilitated through whatever international agreements that the EU is beholden to. Regardless of that, the narrative of grievances held against economic migrants is that they're encroaching upon the job availability of domestic workers or burdening public services (both not true). We have the means of curbing immigration from non-EU countries and the ability to repatriate those EU migrants who don't meet the EU's criteria for residency outside their own country.