To stock the shelves of his grocery store, Samuel Cotter has more and more difficulty. Orders before Christmas are barely arriving this Saturday, more than two months late. For good reason, a border has been established for all goods between the rest of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland where it is located. “Each article must include a European code, a reference to be able to cross so far. And for each of its orders, you have to pay between 30 and 70 pounds in administrative costs,” he laments. The strict verification of European standards indeed applies to the entry of North Irish ports for anything coming from England, Wales, or Scotland, resulting in blockages never seen in supply chains. intra British. This oddity is due to the impossibility of reintroducing a European border where it should be between the North and the South of Ireland. There are formerly signed peace accords on the island. The special status, which de facto maintains Northern Ireland in the single European market, leads to Kafkaesque situations. Northern Irish farmer Colin MacKee was buying head of cattle in another part of the UK, Scotland. Which is impossible today. It is towards the south and therefore in Europe that it must be supplied. “I ordered these cows just yesterday from Southern Ireland, and they’ve been delivered to me already. If I order them from Scotland like I did before, they’ll start to be stranded for a month before new veterinary checks when getting off the boat, ”he explains. The continuation in the report above.
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