The man in charge of Saudi Arabia’s ruthless campaign to stifle dissent went searching for ways to spy on people he saw as threats to the kingdom. Mark Mazzetti, Adam Goldman, Ronen Bergman & Nicole Perlroth, New York Times, 21 March 2019
New age of warfare: How Internet mercenaries ‘The integrity of the single market must be preserved, which means the four freedoms are indivisible and excludes any cherry-picking,’ it read. There must be a ‘balance of rights and obligations’ the agreement declared. As the talks dragged on, the balloon continued to expand but never substantially changed shape. Like a balloon slowly expanded from its original form, the negotiating guidelines were simply a blown-up version of the statements published by the EU in the hours after the result was announced. It was published, after extensive consultation with national governments, at the April leaders’ summit shortly after Theresa May triggered Article 50 on March 29, 2017. The discussion about the border was part of the EU’s work on its Brexit negotiating ‘bible,’ in preparation for the U.K.’s official declaration of departure. ‘As the Commission’s Irish interlocutors have indicated,’ the note stated, ‘insisting on such a solution could harm the peace process.’īut it was the only way under EU law, the Commission concluded, given the U.K.’s decision to leave the EU’s customs union. ‘But so did the EU: single market integrity in Northern Ireland.’Īccording to Connelly’s ‘Brexit & Ireland,’ the memo ‘acknowledged the sensitivity of this idea,’ because of the fury it would cause among unionists in Northern Ireland. ‘Ireland asked for something,’ one European Commission official said. The kicker: This meant there would have to be border controls within the U.K. Northern Ireland would be subject to EU law even after it had left.
In effect, the island of Ireland would be treated as unified when it came to food and farming. In a confidential Brexit note, titled ‘Brexit and the Border between Ireland the U.K.,’ the Commission proposed a soft land border for goods - and no border controls for agriculture and food. Nowhere was the imbalance of power more important than on the Irish border.īy February, 2017 - before Britain had even triggered Article 50 - Brussels had taken ownership of the problem and come up with the beginnings of a solution.
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