This week’s Westminster election may reshape Northern Ireland’s political landscape along Brexit fault lines – but on a UK scale, it still looks set to return a majority set on unrealistic trade expectations, raising again the prospect of a no-deal.
Brexit and climate change combined looks certain to create problems for Ireland's shared energy supply between the north and the south. The solution? An integrated risk agency.
In their time the DUP has said that there would never be the Good Friday, IRA disarming or power-sharing with Sinn Fein. Now they are telling us that the new version of the Irish backstop will never be accepted. We shall see.
Many sectors face severe disruption if Brussels and London fail to seal a Brexit agreement in the coming days. One would disappear: milk production and processing in Northern Ireland.
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