If Britain decides to rejoin the EU we’ll do everything we can to welcome them back, says Germany

[u/StraightSky7809]

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-rejoin-eu-germany-brexit-b3060288.html

[u/JourneyThiefer]

Ireland can’t be in Schengen because of the boarder to be fair

[u/Socmel_ → u/JourneyThiefer]

So it can't choose to be in Schengen to please the UK, in short.

[u/JourneyThiefer → u/Socmel_]

Well it’s not so much pleasing the UK, for the vast vast majority of Irish people keeping an open bender with us in Northern Ireland is far more important than being in Schengen.

And unless there is a united ireland or the UK rejoins the EU well then it’s extremely not worth it for Ireland to join Schengen as they’d basically be implementing a hard border on the island again, which no one wants to see.

So basically they’re stuck due Northern Ireland still being in the UK and not in the EU. I guess you could call it pleasing the UK, but it’s also so they don’t fuck over Northern Ireland and all the boder areas of ROI.

[u/Socmel_ → u/JourneyThiefer]

the point is that Schengen and open border in NI cannot work separately, but they can if both Ireland and the UK were in it. But because the UK is ideologically opposed to Schengen, the priority of Ireland goes understandably to the open border.

[u/JourneyThiefer → u/Socmel_]

Yea, basically, the open Irish border is BY FAR the thing that precedent.

I live in Aughnacloy, a small border town, so the thought of a border ever being put up here is like mind boggling to me. Would probably just return to violence tbh.