If the EU insists that a customs line has to be drawn down the Irish Sea, how can they enforce this? It'd require domestic customs stations in the territory of the UK, a country which will not be part of the EU and over which it consequently will have no authority.
If the UK refuses to do this, and the EU wishes to protect the integrity of its customs zone, it'd have to set up a hard border between NI and the Republic, exactly what it doesn't want to do.
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If the EU insists that a customs line has to be drawn down the Irish Sea, how can they enforce this? It'd require domestic customs stations in the territory of the UK, a country which will not be part of the EU and over which it consequently will have no authority.
If the UK refuses to do this, and the EU wishes to protect the integrity of its customs zone, it'd have to set up a hard border between NI and the Republic, exactly what it doesn't want to do.