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The Common Travel Area is an open border agreement between the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Leave to enter is not required to enter the UK or the other British islands within the area from Ireland, except for those only in transit through Ireland or who require a visa to enter to the UK.
The border at Killeen (viewed from the UK side) marked only by a metric (km/h) speed limit sign. Originally intended as an internal boundary within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, the border was created in 1921 under the United Kingdom Parliament's Government of Ireland Act 1920. [5]
The Northern Ireland Protocol of the Brexit withdrawal agreement commits the UK and the EU to maintaining an open border in Ireland, so that (in many respects) the de facto frontier is the Irish Sea border between the two islands. This requires the continued application of the Common Travel Area as well as free trade of goods (including ...
The proposal ‘undermined the Good Friday Agreement and the Common Travel Area’, the Irish parliament was told. Ireland to raise concerns with UK over border demands for non-Irish citizens Skip ...
For the EU, the new framework left the basic architecture of 2019's protocol intact, creating a trade border between Great Britain and Northern Ireland to prevent a hard land border between ...
Non-UK and non-Irish EU citizens would have to apply for pre-travel clearance to cross the border under the UK Government’s plan. Warning sounded about tourism impact over Irish border crossing ...
After both nations' bids to join the European Economic Community were rejected, Ireland and the UK signed the Ireland–UK Free Trade Area agreement on 19 December 1965. [60] The bilateral free trade area was legally in force from 1 July 1966 until 1 January 1973. [61] Both countries joined the European Economic Community on 1 January 1973.
The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee was hearing evidence from the consortium operating the Government Trader Support Service. Checks proposed for Irish land border will not solve sea border ...