Do we need to replace the Good Friday Agreement?

flazio

With the political landscape the way it is and the underlying circumstances behind the agreement drastically changing (Britain's membership of the E.U. being the big shift) Do you think the time has come for the British and Irish governments to come to the table again and negotiate a new agreement to replace The Good Friday Agreement?

Fr Tod Umptious

flazio wrote: »

With the political landscape the way it is and the underlying circumstances behind the agreement drastically changing (Britain's membership of the E.U. being the big shift) Do you think the time has come for the British and Irish governments to come to the table again and negotiate a new agreement to replace The Good Friday Agreement?

What should such an agreement address ?

Change the structure of the Assembly ?

What would its aims be ?

flazio

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

What should such an agreement address ?

Change the structure of the Assembly ?

What would its aims be ?

Border control, trade between the two sections, rights of Irish citizenship and therefore EU citizenship.

Godge

flazio wrote: »

Border control, trade between the two sections, rights of Irish citizenship and therefore EU citizenship.

Other than the citizen question, those are all things that the UK will have to negotiate through Brussels first.

Sam Russell

It could allow the NI region (six counties) to become an autonomous region within the Republic of Ireland. They would retain their membership of the EU, their assembly, and their control over whatever that controls. They would have to adopt the Euro.

Could work - but only if they could get a big enough subsidy from someone.

Charles Babbage

They need a Anglo Irish border control agreement for no border before negotiations. They British can then impose different restrictions in England if they wish, if they can't square the circle they can just stay in the EU, they might be glad of the excuse. These arrangements should include validity of all classes of Irish visa for an incidental visit to the North.

Otherwise a sort of All Island EU agreement for convergence of services. No price gouging by mobile phone companies, no excessive charges for postage, no adding of additional charges by car hire companies, etc. This sort of thing should have been attended to in the original GFA, but instead people have had to wait for the EU in many cases.

Atlantic Dawn

flazio wrote: »

Border control, trade between the two sections, rights of Irish citizenship and therefore EU citizenship.

No trade deals can be set by one EU member to any other country/state without full EU inclusion.

Atlantic Dawn

Sam Russell wrote: »

It could allow the NI region (six counties) to become an autonomous region within the Republic of Ireland. They would retain their membership of the EU, their assembly, and their control over whatever that controls. They would have to adopt the Euro.

Could work - but only if they could get a big enough subsidy from someone.

Perhaps, something like Canary Islands.

Charles Babbage

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

No trade deals can be set by one EU member to any other country/state without full EU inclusion.

No, but in relation to the 6 counties if everyone from the parties, the two governments, the US, whatever, agree what would be good then the EU will probably go along with it.

Atlantic Dawn

Atlantic Dawn wrote: »

Perhaps, something like Canary Islands.

Reduced VAT rates as a form of subsidy? All business in border towns in the Republic would disappear overnight.