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Republic of Ireland
5.14.21

Facebook Loses Bid to Block Ruling on EU-U.S. Data Flows
—Sam Schechner // The Wall Street Journal // 14 May 2021 // 11:57 AM ET

12.2.20

It is not simply that Johnson will no longer have Donald Trump in his corner. It is also that a Biden administration is likely to be ill-disposed to rewarding the UK with a favorable trade deal after the UK will have disrupted the Good Friday Agreement with Ireland. Should the UK leave Europe without a trade deal, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland would have to reinstitute a hard border. The removal of that border constituted a key pillar of the Good Friday Agreement that ushered in two decades of Irish peace. 

—Desmond Lachman, The Hill Opinion, "5 minutes to midnight in the United Kingdom," 2 Dec. 2020 {5:00 PM EST} 

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