European Commission spokesman Margaritis Schinas warned today that a hard Irish border will inevitably be resulted from no-deal Brexit. He said in a press conference that “If you’d like … to push me and speculate on what might happen in a no-deal scenario in Ireland, I think it’s pretty obvious — you will have a hard border.” But he also reiterated EU’s commitment to the Good Friday Agreement and pledged to ” take inevitably into account this fact”.
Irish government spokesman said “We will not accept a hard border on this island and therefore we are not planning for one.” Though, he added “Working out suitable customs and trade arrangements compatible with our EU membership will require detailed discussion with the Commission, while the UK will also need to live up to its responsibilities. We are under no illusions about how challenging that would be.”
