A trip to the Northern Ireland trade border

The Indicator from Planet Money

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🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

The UK's withdrawal from the European Union in 2020 came with plenty of challenges. And now one of its biggest — how to deal with Northern Ireland — may finally be resolved. On today's episode, we hear from a small business owner whose land and operations are split by the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.0	This is the indicator for plan of money.
0:13.0	I'm Adrian Ma.
0:14.0	And I'm Paddy Hirsch.
0:15.0	Brexit, Britain's departure from the European Union, formally occurred on the 31st of January
0:20.1	2020.
0:21.4	Back then, supporters of the withdrawal expected to see the United Kingdom separate from
0:25.5	the EU like a state-liegallion leaving a harbor all sales set and striking out to see.
0:31.9	Yeah, well, three years later, the good-ship Brexit is still struggling to get beyond the
0:37.1	breakwaters, with one pesky sale noisily flapping in the wind.
0:41.8	That unruly sale?
0:43.6	Northern Ireland.
0:44.6	It's part of the United Kingdom, but awkwardly, it's also part of the island of Ireland.
0:49.1	That means it's the only part of the UK that shares a land border with the EU.
0:54.0	And that is causing all sorts of problems.
0:57.1	Three Prime Ministers have tried to get this Northern Ireland situation under control.
1:01.7	Theresa May, Boris Johnson, and Liz Truss.
1:05.1	But now, Britain's new Premier Rishi Sunek appears to have found a solution.
1:10.5	He's negotiated a compromise that could, if he can get the right politicians to agree,
1:15.5	get Brexit done once and for all.
1:18.5	This is a big deal, not just because it could finally allow the UK to get on with living
1:22.7	life outside of Europe.
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