Abstract
Brexit and the Irish question IN FOCUS: Part one: Ireland’s Slow Road to Peace
Highlights
For the United Kingdom and its relations with European neighbours, for the constitutional fabric of the British State and for the EU at a time of uncertainty over the future of the European project. The consequences of this decision will have no greater impact than on the still-fragile peace process known as the ‘Good Friday’ or Belfast Agreement, negotiated in 1998 by parties representing Northern Ireland’s principal cultural communities and the governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
This historic event brought to an end decades of political violence and centuries of sectarian bitterness, or so it was thought at the time
Brexit has thrown into doubt the future of that peace process
Summary
Brexit and the Irish question IN FOCUS: Part one: Ireland’s Slow Road to Peace The outcome of the 2016 British referendum on EU membership will have significant and lasting consequences.
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