BREXIT...AN ONGOING SOURCE OF FRICTION
John Bruton
Non Executive Director at Ingersoll Rand, Irish Diaspora Loan Origination Fund and CEPS
"The problems of Brexit will not end, but will intensify, after Brexit day.
It is unclear in what the direction the UK is setting sail, but clearly it will be moving further and further and further away from its closest neighbours. This will have cultural and political, as well as economic, consequences.
The Withdrawal negotiations, and the negotiation of some kind of replacement UK/EU relationship, will divert limited talent and time from constructive purposes, in the civil services and parliaments of all of Europe for years to come.
That is a tragedy, inflicted on all of Europe by one country, notwithstanding that country having had a voting say in the EU for the last 44 years.
It is not as the EU has not already enough to to do, apart from Brexit, on issues like
+ migration
,+ rule of law,
+ eurozone governance reform,
+ relations with Russia,
+ defence policy, and
+ the completion of the single market.
Ireland must contribute vigorously to EU action on all these questions.We cannot just talk and think about Brexit, however tempting that may be.
I fear the negotiation of a new Agreement, which will take years, is liable to generate new sources of friction between, and within, both the EU and the UK.
EU unity in the negotiations, and the initiative power of the Commission which underlies that unity, should be supported"
MD @ Julian's landscapes
6 年Currency
MD @ Julian's landscapes
6 年I created Bitcoin as a replacement of foreign trading against my single World Currewbv
Proposal Manager @ Saipem SpA
6 年the lady got stuck in there and simply run out of ideas to figure that out
English Language Teacher/Electric Electronic and Hardware Tech./Project development specialist/import and export expert.
6 年If there is an argue and one side is an English, you should turn back and do not talk. Want them to write exactly what they want and write them exactly what you want them. Also there is not a sanction of EU. Forget everything you gave to English. You can not get them. Happy to escape from them.
Maritime transport & Freight Consultant
6 年I do agree that there must be more than talk; there MUST be alternative infrastructure and investment towards ensuring improved linkages (logistics, supply chain and transport) between Irish stakeholders and new markets.