Emmanuel Macron is making a last-ditch push for a tougher EU negotiating position with Britain over the post-Brexit relationship despite concerns among other member states that they risk blowing up the talks before they have begun. The conclusion of an internal decision on Brussels’s so-called level playing field demands has been […]
Britain’s financial sector wants a new forum to oversee how the UK and European Union are maintaining access to each other’s financial markets after Brexit. Britain left the EU last month but will apply the bloc’s rules until December, after which new trading terms will be needed. Access to the […]
A new tracking app for traditional fishermen could prevent them from enjoying their much-heralded ‘Brexit bonus’. Fishermen are hoping to be exempt from rules set by Brussels, which dictate how much and where trawlermen can fish, once the Brexit transition period ends on December 31st, and they hope as a […]
BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union lawmakers threw their weight Wednesday behind the negotiating package the 27-nation bloc’s chief negotiator wants to use during upcoming trade talks with former EU member Britain. The European Parliament adopted a text embracing the key positions of negotiator Michel Barnier with a 543-39 vote that […]
Post-Brexit transition border checks could cause fresh food supply problems, an industry body has warned. Shoppers will notice the supply issues next January unless there is a “massive upgrade” in border facilities, the British Retail Consortium said. The warning came after cabinet minister Michael Gove said that border checks are […]
Claim: UK fishermen were “throwing back a million tonnes of fish dead” every year because of the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), according to Conservative MP Owen Paterson. Reality Check verdict: No one has ever come up with a credible figure of one million tonnes for UK fishermen alone. It’s true that […]
Northern Ireland could find itself in a different time zone to the rest of the UK under Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal. Currently, EU countries and the UK switch to summer time hours on the last Sunday of March and back to Greenwich Mean Time on the last Sunday of October. […]
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said the EU is “all set” for trade talks with the UK and seeks a unique and unprecedented deal. “We will enter these negotiations with the highest ambition because good old friends like the UK and us shouldn’t settle for less,” she […]
Fianna Fáil has won the most seats in the Irish general election just one ahead of Sinn Féin, who recorded a historic result. Sinn Féin’s haul of 37 seats is an increase of 14 on the 2016 election. Fine Gael, whose party leader Leo Varadkar led the outgoing government as […]
Brussels is clamping down on 82 free ports or free zones after identifying that their special tariff and duty status has aided the financing of terrorism, money laundering and organised crime. A set of new rules was introduced by the European commission just weeks before the launch on Monday of […]
NICOLA Sturgeon is facing fresh questions over her judgment after it emerged an SNP Brexit Day stunt she promoted would ordinarily have been reported to the Belgian Police. The First Minister suggested the European Commission had “left a light on” for Scotland on January 31 after she tweeted a picture of a “Europe loves […]
France is looking at ways to lure clearing in euro derivatives away from London to the European Union to lessen the risk of any forced “relocation” backfiring by driving business instead to the U.S., financial industry officials said. Britain left the EU last month and no longer has a seat […]
