BRUSSELS is ready to grant a request from an overwhelmed Ireland to be allowed to waive EU checks at the border in the immediate aftermath of No Deal.
Eurocrats say Dublin will be given a grace period of “maximum a few months” to organise itself before being told to “plug the gaps” at the frontier.
A senior EU official told The Sun: “If we end up in the No Deal scenario the Irish will look at the EU first for how can we help them.
“There’s some understanding of the immediate problems and the fact they may not be as of day one capable of ensuring the principles of the Single Market.”
An EU diplomat said Dublin would be given “maximum a few months leeway” by other capitals and the Commission before being told to impose all checks.
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They said: “After that they and others like France will have to plug the gaps if they want to keep unfettered access to the Single Market.”
A second EU official added there won’t be “much scope for leeway” and Dublin must “put in place the necessary mechanisms for checks” straight away.
They said these would include controls on food, animal products, livestock and medicines, plus customs arrangements to collect EU tariffs.
Brussels sources said Leo Varadkar’s admission that No Deal would involve checks, in a report on contingency measures this month, was a step forward.
But the Irish PM is still holding back the extent of preparedness plans over fears it will encourage Tory MPs pressing for a tech solution to the border.
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An EU official said: “At least there was a recognition that there would be checks and controls.
“How they would be organised and how they should be structured, that’s the discussion that we need to have with them.
“They’re reluctant to talk about that now because the Brits would jump on this and say see, under No Deal we can tackle the border so what’s the problem.
“They don’t want to be pulled in a suboptimal solution by basically starting to go public on solutions that may be necessary under a No Deal scenario.”
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Eurocrats are drawing up a multi-billion euro finance package to help Ireland’s most vulnerable companies weather No Deal.
They said a package of measures designed to protect the country’s beef industry could be replicated for other sectors particularly exposed to Brexit.
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But any funding would be linked to Dublin agreeing frameworks for distributing the cash so that it doesn’t distort competition within the Single Market.
France could also be allowed to wave through some trucks to “avoid upheaval” in and around Calais in the days and weeks after a crash out, diplomats said.
But Eurocrats insisted the port is ready with tech, flying customs brigades, separate lanes and parking infrastructure” in place to minimise disruption.
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