Sinn Fein spinge per l’UE a sostenere l’Irlanda unita

It is more likely that North Ireland will enter EU…along the whole UK

We should really stick to maintaining the status quo rather than trying reunification. It’s in everyone’s interests

The financial burden of reunification is very real. The Republic would have to subsidize NI for the most part. Plus the very real prospect that violence just erupts and exacerbates all over again and you get Troubles Rebooted

Logical

Good thing they’re not in power, the EU isn’t going to take the bait with the current geopolitical situation either

Sinn Fein wants to kick the bee nest to gain more votes. They are losing votes fast right now as they are Trump-style bombastic without producing results. It gets tiresome. Furthermore Northern Ireland can just vote on this at any time. EU is not needed. EU can’t do anything about it and you also wouldn’t want to vote right now when the no side and Protestants are in the lead by a bit. Catholics are reproducing at fast rates and will get more than enough yes votes in the future. But the issue is that right now Northern Ireland is in a perfect situation of having a ton of control over themselves and a say in London too. Why would they want to give this up to be part of a greater Ireland that then will fully dominate this poverty stricken region? To me it doesn’t sound that utopian. Are the Catholics in Northern Ireland really planning on the rich upperclass to not control them? Ireland is extremely rich, on paper, and could subsidize the north. But if I was Catholic in Northern Ireland I would never vote yes unless there was a very clear contract on this as why shouldn’t the rich part of the nation help you out? Otherwise they will not get anything besides the right to call themselves Irish with a tiny bit greater conviction?

This thread is filled with misinformation and just bad takes.

Now imagine the UK government providing funding, aid and encouragement to hypothetical groups of Turks living in Cyprus who wanted to push for the Greek half to join the Turkish half.  That would be pretty outrageous, right?  Probably the sort of thing they shouldn’t do.  

I mean, just imagine how annoyed, say, Denmark would be if someone tried to pressure them into giving up Greenland, hypothetically.  They’d be livid.

They forgot about the Good Friday Agreement!

The whole Northern Ireland situation has always confused me. This seems like a thing that will keep simmering, after all Northern Ireland is quite valuable, and I understand the idea of uniting an island from a security perspective, water is the best border which the UK knows better than anyone. It’s not some small rock like Gibraltar with only a 38k population that isn’t really worth the violence of war, at most Spain would just take control of it if the UK ever falls apart in a distant future.

What do the people who actually live in NA want? Do they prefer being part of the UK or part of Ireland?

Genuine question. Lol @ immediate downvotes.

Ah here. The EU has already made clear if NI wish to unify, they’d be brought into the EU in the same way German Unification worked. What more do they want?

The decision to unify should be left to the people of NI as per the good Friday Agreement. Trying to strongarm unity this way is only going to alienate people you will need to pass such a vote.

Unification will require years of negotiation to figure out what exactly the process should look like. Trying to get the EU on side to push for unity is silly. The UK are allies, trying to sow divisions (right now of all times) is ridiculous.

Having spoken to people from Northern Ireland the biggest sticking point for younger generations seems to be the healthcare system – the Republic needs to sort that out before they can win over the people sitting on the fence.