Elaborate and extensive checks on goods and animals crossing the Irish Border will be necessary in a no-deal scenario, EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier reiterated on Tuesday. Speaking at a Brussels think tank, he said, “we need to find the way somewhere to implement the checks. He was speaking before British MPs rejected four options for a new way forward on Brexit in indicative votes on Monday night. There might be three options: “A new political process, I don’t know what kind of process we’ll see, that gets a majority. The only way to avoid a no-deal Brexit is and will be through a positive majority.

Source: The Irish Times April 02, 2019 06:54 UTC