Peugeot (PEUP.PA) could only export cars to Britain and invest in local plants if the British government helped to offset any potential tariffs imposed after the country’s exit from the European Union, Chief Executive Carlos Tavares said. Britain has already left the common market but has not yet finalised an […]
Talks between Britain and the EU on a post-Brexit trade deal have got under way in Brussels, with officials on both sides agreeing not to shake hands because of the coronavirus outbreak. The two teams agreed to the step amid the continuing global spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. […]
Given recent cross-channel provocations, it would hardly be surprising to learn that the French are quite happy to see the back of us. Boris Johnson last year referred to our nearest neighbours as “turds”, in a comment that had to be cut from a BBC documentary. French President Emmanuel Macron is playing tough on […]
Heart transplants are being performed for the first time ever in the Canary Islands. Previously, heart transplant patients had to move to the Spanish mainland for the operation and three heart transplants have already been carried out at the University Hospital of Gran Canaria.
Spanish banks could face billions of euros in compensation claims if the European Union’s highest court delivers an unfavorable verdict on how they’ve been setting mortgage rates. The EU’s Court of Justice is expected to decide today whether banks were sufficiently transparent with customers about why they were sold mortgages […]
British Airways, Ryanair and Lufthansa have cancelled hundreds of flights to Europe and Asia over the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. The BA cancellations consist of flights between London Heathrow and Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and New York’s JKF. Meanwhile, the British carrier also cancelled flights between Gatwick and […]
The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in Spain passed the 115 mark yesterday. While the majority have been found in patients who had traveled abroad, there are five groups where the origin is as yet unknown. This situation is currently worrying Spanish health authorities, who are trying to find the […]
The UK has a “moral imperative” to produce its own food, the chief of the farmers’ union has said after it emerged a senior government adviser argued Britain could import all produce. Minette Batters, the president of the National Union of Farmers, hit back at suggestions the UK could copy […]
The government has estimated a post-Brexit trade deal with the United States would boost the UK economy by 0.16% over the next 15 years. The figure is included in a 180-page document setting out the UK’s negotiating position for talks, expected to begin later this month. The document pledges to maintain maintain […]
Paris has warned that French fishermen will block all cross-Channel ports if the British government does not agree a fishing trade deal with the EU. Boris Johnson’s government has been threatened to prepare for a “very nasty battle,” that Europe will be “paralysed” unless French fishermen are happy with a […]
So this is it. After three messy years negotiating the UK’s exit from the EU, Monday is the day that trade talks finally begin between the two sides. David Frost, the UK’s chief negotiator, arrives in Brussels in the afternoon, armed with 100 advisers and civil servants, preparing to spread […]
Life expectancy in Spain rose by 1.17 years on average in the last decade, according to the ministry of health and the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Women live on average to age 85 years and nearly 11 months, and men to 80 years and just under six months, women […]
