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Michel Barnier
EUROPEAN UNION chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier issued new threats of a “hard border” with Ireland today if Britain leaves the single market.
The former EU commissioner also threatened to derail talks on a two-year “transition” period after Britain’s withdrawal from the bloc becomes final in May next year.
Following the latest round of talks with British Brexit Secretary David Davis, Mr Barnier said three “substantial” disagreements remained, warning: “if these disagreements persist, the transition is not a given.”
AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
