Odd article. It seems to be suggesting that there are concerns that Northern Ireland would somehow be *prevented* from becoming part of the EU, and that something needs to be done about this.
In practice, there are very well-trodden paths and legal practices around successor states, and the GFA process would result in Northern Ireland becoming part of Ireland. As such, there would be some fairly mechanical processes like apportionment of MEPs for the now-7m population of the country, but nothing that hasn’t happened before.
The mechanics of the referenda are the sole concern of Ireland and the UK respectively, as are the discussions of the separation of Northern Ireland from the UK and the settlement of outstanding financial issues such as pensions, national debt, assets, etc.
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Odd article. It seems to be suggesting that there are concerns that Northern Ireland would somehow be *prevented* from becoming part of the EU, and that something needs to be done about this.
In practice, there are very well-trodden paths and legal practices around successor states, and the GFA process would result in Northern Ireland becoming part of Ireland. As such, there would be some fairly mechanical processes like apportionment of MEPs for the now-7m population of the country, but nothing that hasn’t happened before.
The mechanics of the referenda are the sole concern of Ireland and the UK respectively, as are the discussions of the separation of Northern Ireland from the UK and the settlement of outstanding financial issues such as pensions, national debt, assets, etc.
Didn’t Enda Kenny get this [sorted](https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-ireland/eu-says-united-ireland-would-be-automatic-full-member-idUKKBN17V0HQ) already in 2017?
*Meta*
I posted this on r/unitedkingdom earlier, and it’s surprisingly busy.
NI threads tend to get little traction on the UK subs (no surprise there), so I was slightly surprised to see the level of engagement.
One suspects ‘EU interfering in ‘sovereign’ matters’ may have much to do with it