[messe]

From a trade perspective, Northern Ireland is treated as part of the EU at the moment. This allows the Irish border to remain open, as there's no feasible way of enforcing it otherwise. For some context: The European union as a whole has 137 border crossings with third countries to its east. The Irish-Northern Irish border has 275.

[CaptainZapp]

Thanks!

I didn't consider NEs current status.

This will open another can of worms, when some of the exceptions run out by the end of September.