The scheduled British referendum on EU membership and resultant negotiations mark a potentially defining shift in British-Irish relations. The prospect of a fresh wall of regulations being built from Derry to Newry would deal a massive blow to years of efforts on cross border reconciliation and growth. A British exit from the EU would remove the common ground which facilitated much of the progress in Northern Ireland.
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