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Thursday 17 augusT 2017
UK vows Brexit won’t mean the return of Irish border posts

Britain has vowed to end The right of EU citizens to live
the free movement of in any member state is one
people from the bloc after of the EU’s key principles,
it leaves the EU in 2019, re- and has allowed hundreds
moving the automatic right of thousands of Europeans
of EU nationals to settle and to move to Britain and get
work in the U.K. jobs there, especially since
But it made clear on the bloc expanded into
Wednesday that EU citizens eastern Europe more than
will still be able to travel a decade ago.
freely from Ireland to North- There are an estimated 3
ern Ireland, and onward to million EU nationals living in
other parts of the U.K. Britain, and 1 million Britons
Outlining proposals for the residing in other parts of
Ireland-Northern Ireland the bloc.
border — one of the most Many Britons who voted
complex aspects of Brexit last year to leave the EU
— the government said cited a desire to regain
there should be no physi- control of immigration as a
cal border posts or elec- key reason.
tronic checks. It also com- In a paper outlining pro-
mitted itself to maintaining posals for the Irish border
the border-free Common after Brexit, the British gov-
Travel Area covering the ernment insisted it will be
Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, speaks to the media, at Iveagh House in Dublin, U.K. and Ireland, which pre- able to control immigra-
in response to the UK Government’s Brexit proposals, Wednesday Aug. 16, 2017. Britain said there dates the establishment of tion through work permits
must be no border posts or electronic checks between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic the EU. or other measures, even
after Brexit, and it committed itself to maintaining the longstanding, border-free Common Travel “There should be no physi- though EU nationals will re-
Area covering the U.K. and Ireland. cal border infrastructure of main free to come and go.
(Brian Lawless/PA via AP) any kind on either side of It said “immigration con-
By JILL LAWLESS tween the U.K. and Ireland member state Ireland with- the border between North- trols are not, and never
Associated Press after Brexit, and European out immigration checks, ern Ireland and Ireland,” have been, solely about
LONDON (AP) — There must Union citizens will be able the British government said Conservative British Prime the ability to prevent and
be no border posts be- to enter Britain through EU Wednesday. Minister Theresa May said. control entry at the U.K.’s
physical border.” Con-
Man held in Rome after sister’s body found trash trol of access to the labor
market and social welfare
are also “an integral part”
ROME (AP) — A man in of the immigration system,
Rome confessed to author- the paper added.
ities Wednesday to killing Northern Ireland is an espe-
his sister, whose dismem- cially thorny issue in Brexit
bered legs were acciden- talks, because it has the
tally found in a city trash U.K.’s only land border with
bin while her head and re- the EU, and because an
maining body parts were open border has helped
later discovered in a gar- build the economic pros-
bage container on another perity that underpins the
street, police said. peace process in Northern
Maurizio Diotallevi, 62, was Ireland.
questioned at police head- Since the 1998 Good Fri-
quarters by an investigat- day peace accord, British
ing magistrate, a statement military checkpoints along
from police headquarters the border have been dis-
said. mantled, rendering it all
“In front of the magistrate, but invisible. Thousands of
Diotallevi admitted being people cross the 300-mile
the one who committed (500-kilometer) border ev-
the murder and who at- ery day.
tempted to hide the body,” Britain said it was de-
the statement said. termined that “nothing
The victim was identified An Italian police officer walks past the site where a trash bin was removed after two amputated agreed as part of the
as Nicoletta Diotallevi, 59, legs were found in Rome, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017. According to the Italian Police first investiga- U.K.’s exit in any way un-
who lived with her brother tions the part of the human body found belongs to a woman. dermines” the Northern Ire-
in an apartment in the Fla- (Angelo Carconi/ANSA via AP) land peace agreement.
minio neighborhood. Po- woman on Tuesday night, ately alerted police, was ages from a surveillance The government’s Depart-
lice found the brother in rummaging through a trash reported to be in shock camera near the trash bin. ment for Exiting the Europe-
that apartment. bin used by residents on after the grisly find, Italian In the video, “in the night an Union acknowledged
It was in another upscale the street discovered two media said. between Monday and that “unprecedented” so-
neighborhood, Parioli, legs, wrapped together Police didn’t say how the Tuesday, a man was seen lutions would be needed
about a kilometer (half- with package tape, police woman was killed. heaving a heavy object to preserve the peace
mile) away, that a young said. Police questioned the into the bin,” the police process and maintain the
The woman, who immedi- brother after viewing im- statement said.q