{"id":25450,"date":"2018-12-13T20:22:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25450"},"modified":"2018-12-13T20:22:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T20:22:43","slug":"brexit-why-is-the-irish-border-backstop-such-a-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=25450","title":{"rendered":"Brexit: Why is the Irish border &#8216;backstop&#8217; such a big deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN)<\/cite>One of the big fears in the Brexit debate is that Britain&#8217;s departure from the EU will mean the reintroduction of border posts on the frontier between Northern Ireland, which remains part of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland, an EU member.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Border infrastructure was often targeted by Irish nationalist paramilitaries during <a href=\"http:\/\/rss.cnn.com\/2013\/10\/30\/world\/europe\/northern-ireland-fast-facts\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the &#8220;Troubles&#8221;<\/a> &#8212; the 40-year sectarian conflict in which more than 3,500 people died.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">UK Prime Minister Theresa May&#8217;s Brexit deal avoids the reintroduction of a so-called &#8220;hard&#8221; Irish border, because of the built-in transition period that keeps the UK in a customs union with the EU.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN)One of the big fears in the Brexit debate is that Britain&#8217;s departure from the EU will mean the reintroduction of border posts on the frontier between Northern Ireland, which remains part of the UK, and the Republic of Ireland, an EU member.Border infrastructure was often targeted by Irish nationalist paramilitaries during the &#8220;Troubles&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":25451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}