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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

Ireland’s Fear of the Brexit


If Britain votes to leave the EU on June 23, Brexit will have an impact on the security, economy, and stability of Ireland.
In my childhood, my mother would drive up once a year to Northern Ireland. The main stretch from Dublin up to the border was a slow two-lane road. Ireland was not yet in the E.U. so it didn’t have any access to its generous structural and development funds to modernize its poor infrastructure.
Once the security checks at the border crossing were over, we entered what seemed a foreign world. Everything was new and modern from the fast and wide motorway to Belfast to the big department stores offering so much choice. The prices were also low. Britain, not yet in the E.U. either, was heavily subsidizing its Northern Ireland province that in the late 1960s was about to become engulfed in a long sectarian conflict.http://carnegieeurope.eu/2016/06/02/ireland-s-fear-of-brexit/j0kp?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpNNE5UVmxNRFZrTkRReSIsInQiOiJrYW92cUo0WkJNVnQxYVFLcSs3dUlwVnFwT0Z3XC9MN2gyVHVaSWJpSEhWZWM4bzZLaDg3MWx5NjJHU2M1cHIyMmpjQmN4VGltQVhJWkRHOFpBUmRQaGxpRjdwbUhBVkU3dXpyWmZDSnVpNmM9In0%3D

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