EUROPEAN Parliament’s Brexit coordinator Guy Verhofstadt has admit the European Union’s elected representatives are ready to veto the Brexit withdrawal agreement unless there is “100 percent assurance” of no hard border appearing on the island of Ireland The Irish border question has plagued Brexit negotiations with either side making substantial […]
Remain-backing MPs believe they will get a chance to send Theresa May back to the negotiating table if they don’t like the final Brexit deal, after comments by David Davis. The Brexit secretary suggested MPs would be allowed to amend a motion on the deal in the autumn. Downing Street […]
Expat demand for homes in Spain is surging upwards, according to the latest official figures. After years in the doldrums, the Spanish property market soared by 20% in the last three months of 2017 with more than 110,000 sales – the highest number of sales in the final quarter for […]
Old costumes used on programmes by Spain’s national television company TVE – including suits worn by Queen Letizia when she was a news reporter – have been stolen from a storage building in Madrid. Outfits worn by Sesame Street characters and in period dramas were among those kept in the Prado del […]
The total number of people registered on the Padrón has risen 0.3% compared to the same time a year before. According to data released by the INE, 126,437 more people are now on the list. Data released show that over 10% of those on the register are not native Spaniards, […]
A Spanish woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to President Trump has asked people to call her by her own name and not “Donald” after a photo of her went viral. Dolores Leis Antelo was interviewed by her local paper about local farming and, after a picture of her standing […]
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp was given a ringing endorsement by Guy Verhofstadt for comments made in an interview where the German said Brexit was “not the solution” to the UK’s troubles. Mr Verhofstadt, a staunch critic of the UK’s European Union divorce, shared a video interview in which Klopp questioned […]
Britain’s hopes for a bespoke deal to let the City of London access the EU, and companies across the Channel to access finance in the UK, has taken a blow as a top European Commissioner warned that Brussels wants to keep an unusually tight hold over banking regulation. Valdis Dombrovskis, the […]
The EU is ready to put the financial screws on taxpayers throughout the bloc by levying BILLIONS in extra revenue in a bid to plug the gap the UK will leave behind after Brexit – with several countries unhappy at the proposal. Brussels will signal an intention to play hardball […]
The prime minister’s spokesperson said Ms May has repeatedly set out government’s position on future relations with the bloc. Downing Street has dismissed claims made by the EU’s chief negotiator that the UK is impeding Brexit talks by failing to set out a clear blueprint for future relations. Theresa May’s spokesman suggested Michel Barnier’s […]
EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier says the UK must give Brussels a clear blueprint if negotiations are going to advance further. Brussels has warned that “more clarity” is needed from the UK before Brexit negotiations can move forward. The EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, said everyone “knows where the EU […]
Significant protections on political, social and economic rights for EU citizens were passed in the House of Lords. Peers have inflicted three defeats in a single afternoon on Theresa May’s Brexit plans. The most significant will see human rights laws to protect EU citizens maintained after the transition period ends […]
