Border between Ireland and the United Kingdom
The border between Ireland and the United Kingdom ( English The Republic of Ireland - United Kingdom border ) or simply Inner Ireland border is the international border in the northeast of the island of Ireland , the Northern Ireland , i.e. the Irish part of the United Kingdom (UK), from the rest of the Island, the Republic of Ireland , separates.
It is simply the Irish border (Engl. The Irish border ) or - simply - on the island itself , the border (Engl. The border called). It stretches for almost 500 kilometers from Lough Foyle in the north to Carlingford Lough in the east on the Irish Sea . It is the only land border between the two states.
history
Since both parts of Ireland from 1923 to Common Travel Area ( German "common travel area" are), there are no border controls in general, even though both the United Kingdom have the right and the Republic of Ireland to carry out such what happens on certain occasions. The border was created by the British Parliament in 1920 under the Government of Ireland Act , giving Ireland, excluding Northern Ireland, limited independence . Six of the island's thirty-two counties remained under British control, known as Northern Ireland , while the remaining twenty-six became independent. In 1921 the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed. The border was originally intended to be an internal administrative division within the British Empire between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Dominion of Ireland, but it has increasingly become an international border: on December 29, 1937, Ireland was proclaimed a Republic and since 1949 Ireland has been no longer a member of the Commonwealth .
present
As part of the Brexit negotiations between 2016 and 2019, the future design of the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland turned out to be one of the core problems following the expected exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union (EU), which was legally effective in 2017 and should be completed in March 2019 at the discretion of the time. During the exit negotiations, the EU and the United Kingdom jointly determined that the border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland should remain a border without any visible general controls. For this purpose, the so-called " backstop clause " was stored in the draft contract for the exit . Since general goods controls must take place at an external border of the European Union, the backstop provides that the United Kingdom initially remains in the European Customs Union after its exit , which met with considerable resistance from Brexit supporters in the British House of Commons in December 2018.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Reality Check: Would Brexit mean border controls for NI? In: BBC News . June 7, 2016, accessed December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Kerstin Leitel, Carsten Volkery: This limit is the unsolved Brexit problem. In: Handelsblatt . May 23, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018 .
- ↑ Sigrid Ulrich: What does the backstop, the Brexit emergency brake mean? In: Euronews . December 10, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Brexit vote in the British House of Commons is postponed. In: Märkische online newspaper . December 10, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018 .
