摘要: |
Empty supermarket shelves in Northern Ireland; parcel shippers who've temporarily stopped their deliveries from Great Britain (GB) to the European Continent and Ireland; Customs problems for textile traders and their products made in Asia; and seafood exporters who can't deliver their perishable goods in time due to new complex declarations. These were just a few of the headlines that dominated the media for many weeks after Britain left the European Union (ELJ). Northern Ireland is particularly hard hit. With Brexit, Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom, has become subject to special regulations that are set out in the so-called Northern Ireland (NI) Protocol. This avoids a hard EU external border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, as it's feared that old political conflicts could flare up again. |