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The term 'hard border' is fairly meaningless and used to try and describe a complex situation to the British public (who aren't really very good at understanding complex problems).
There is a border between Switzerland and the EU. They have customs posts at many of them. They perform searches sometimes. They make you pay a road tax (vignette) if you don't already have one. They confiscate meat if you have more than a wurst or two.
And that's despite Switzerland being in a Schengen-type FoM agreement.
Is that a hard border? Depends what you mean by hard border.
It's complex.
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