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Topic: EU border controls
Posted by: Jonathan Callaway
Date/Time: 26/05/26 17:48:00

For those of you who make light of the EU's border controls, I might mention that even humanitarian convoys for Ukraine are faced with huge paperwork challenges.  The charity I have volunteered for, Medical Life Lines Ukraine, have worked hard to minimise crossing times, both from the UK to France and from Poland to Ukraine, but getting the paperwork processed in less than three hours is still regarded as a good result.

The problem is that even though we are merely transiting the EU we have to complete full inventories of everything entering the EU and everything leaving it.

The last convoy took 12 hours to cross from Poland to Ukraine due to documentation problems only the Poles could spot.

If we had stayed in the EU, or if we can negotiate a better trade deal than the very poor one Johnston and Frosty delivered, at least we would be able to cross the Channel a bit more quickly.

Translate one charity's problems to the movement of our exports and you can see the extent of additional costs our exporters are incurring.

So it is no laughing matter!


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Now we know why jimmy crankey resigned25/05/26 23:12:00 Andy Pike
   Re:Now we know why jimmy crankey resigned26/05/26 00:43:00 David Ainsworth
      Re:Re:Now we know why jimmy crankey resigned26/05/26 08:28:00 Robert Wheeler
         Reply26/05/26 09:46:00 Martine Guy
            Reply26/05/26 09:48:00 Michael Ixer
               Re:Reply26/05/26 10:26:00 John Hawkes
                  Reply26/05/26 12:35:00 Michael Ixer
                     Re:Reply26/05/26 13:03:00 John Hawkes
            Re:Reply26/05/26 10:37:00 Elizabeth Balsom
               Reply26/05/26 11:06:00 Martine Guy
                  Re:Reply26/05/26 11:16:00 Steven Rose
                     Re:Re:Reply26/05/26 11:21:00 John Hawkes
                     Re:Re:Reply26/05/26 16:01:00 David Ainsworth
                        Re:Re:Re:Reply26/05/26 18:08:00 John Hawkes
                           Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply26/05/26 18:34:00 John Hawkes
               Re:Re:Reply26/05/26 15:29:00 John Hawkes
                  Reply26/05/26 16:13:00 Martine Guy
         Can't remember who.26/05/26 11:33:00 David Ainsworth
            Re:Can't remember who.26/05/26 11:46:00 David Ainsworth
               Re:Re:Can't remember who.26/05/26 12:37:00 Robert Wheeler
                  Re:Re:Re:Can't remember who and not bothered26/05/26 13:25:00 David Ainsworth
            Re:Can't remember who.26/05/26 13:29:00 John Hawkes
               Reply26/05/26 14:03:00 Michael Ixer
                  Re:Reply26/05/26 15:15:00 John Hawkes
                     Reply26/05/26 15:35:00 Michael Ixer
                        Re:Reply26/05/26 15:53:00 John Hawkes
                           Reply26/05/26 16:17:00 Michael Ixer
                              Re:Reply26/05/26 18:20:00 John Hawkes
                              Re:Reply26/05/26 18:29:00 Andy Pike
                  Re:Reply26/05/26 15:38:00 David Ainsworth
                     Re:Re:Reply26/05/26 16:01:00 John Hawkes
                        Reply26/05/26 16:30:00 Michael Ixer
                           EU border controls26/05/26 17:48:00 Jonathan Callaway
   Re:Now we know why jimmy crankey resigned26/05/26 18:31:00 John Hawkes

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