http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20171206-090729 https://verfassungsblog.de/whats-in-a-name-a-brexit-we-can-all-enjoy/ What’s in a name? A Brexit we can all enjoy Glinavos, Ioannis eng 2017-12-06 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 brexit Northern Ireland Theresa May Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Northern Ireland will have a ,hard Brexit' as any other part of the UK and, at the same time, be subject to a ,regulatory alignment' with the Republic of Ireland and, hence, the EU. Such is the elegance of this solution, that one might be tempted to mistake it for a genuine policy innovation. In fact, using a made up name for something that you are already doing and calling it ‘new’ has a long pedigree and has been used aplenty.