LONDON, July 20 -- British Prime Minister Theresa May issued a defiant message Friday to the European Union over one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the Brexit negotiations, the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
In a keynote speech to political and business leaders in Belfast, the capital of Northern Ireland, May said she had put forward her blueprint for a trading relationship with the EU after Britain ends its membership of the bloc next March.
"We have now developed our proposals and put an approach on the table ...it is now for the EU to respond," May said.
She said the reality is that any agreement Britain reaches with the EU will have to provide for the frictionless movement of goods across border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic.
"I have said consistently that there can never be a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland," said May, adding: "During the referendum, both campaigns agreed that the border must remain absolutely unchanged. You only have to speak to businesses near the border, as I did yesterday, to see that the notion of a hard border is almost inconceivable."
She said thousands of people who cross and re-cross between the UK and Ireland in the normal course of their daily lives cannot be subject to a hard border as they go to work, visit a neighbor, or go to the supermarket.
"In the Northern Ireland of today, where a seamless border enables uNPRecedented levels of trade and cooperation north and south, any form of infrastructure at the border is an alien concept. The practical consequences for people's day to day lives are only part of the story."
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