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Express.co.uk
April 20, 2018
However, some in the EU, are not pleased at the friendship, as they want to “punish” Britain for leaving and think it's only right the UK is left out in the cold after leaving the EU. Last year, Brexit Secretary David Davis urged the European Union not to punish the UK over the divorce. He told The Andrew MarrÃâà...
Sputnik International
April 20, 2018
Britain's National Audit Office (NAO) has revealed that the final divorce bill the United Kingdom will have to pay in order to leave the European Union is far from settled and the figure will be contingent on a number of factors over which the Government of Theresa May has little control, including events thatÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 20, 2018
Bob Neill, a pro-EU Tory, agreed with Mr Davis, adding he "was right" to push for a detailed policy statement on a proposed Brexit deal before the European ... UK and EU officials held a meeting in Brussels on Wednesday for preliminary talks on their future relationship, with both sides agreeing to draw up aÃâà...
The Sun
April 20, 2018
There is also a separate list of six airlines which can only fly into the EU with special restrictions in place on which aircraft they use. These are Taag Angola Airlines (Angola), Air Service Comores (Comores) Afrijet Business Services (Gabon), Nouvelle Air Affaires Gabon (Gabon), Iran Air (Iran) and Air KoryoÃâà...
Raconteur
April 20, 2018
But, as Sally Shorthose, partner at international law firm Bird & Bird, explains, European Union laws are the heart of the European IP system. “Much of the UK legislative framework in this field is composed of directly effective EU regulations and transposed EU directives,” she says. Unless those regulationsÃâà...
BBC News
April 20, 2018
No 10 says it is confident a deal can be done to avoid a hard border on the island of Ireland after Brexit despite signs of an impasse over the issue. The BBC understands UK plans to resolve the matter faced sustained criticism from the EU at a meeting on Wednesday. The UK wants to use technology to help goods flowÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 19, 2018
Britain is due to quit the EU on March 29, 2019, and both sides are engaged in a complex series of negotiations on a wide range of subjects, including whether or not the UK should remain in a Customs Union, the role of the European Court of Justic following Brexit, and the question of the border betweenÃâà...
The Guardian
April 19, 2018
The government needs to be far more ambitious in its plans to register the estimated 3.4 million EU citizens in the UK after Brexit, with outreach programmes in pubs, schools, hospitals and libraries, a thinktank report has said. The Migration Policy Institute Europe recommended “outreach strategies” such asÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 15, 2018
They state they have taken “practical steps” to signify their support for EU citizens, including “flying two EU flags from our town hall” and “campaigning to stop Brexit”. .... He said: “Our manifesto was quite clear that we were going to implement the decision of the referendum in leaving the European Union.
Express.co.uk
April 15, 2018
It is revealed the Russian president has two EU members included his wider vision to create a new “empire” outside the borders of his own country. Andrei Illarionov, who served as Mr Putin's economic adviser 2000 to 2005, revealed to Express.co.uk, the Russian president sees the current make-up ofÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 15, 2018
The UK risks taking back control of its border from EU bureaucrats just to hand it to Whitehall officials ready to enforce the same rules in a similar manner, warned Louis Williams, a former macroeconomist at Credit Suisse. Mr Williams argues that replacing “the current system of bureaucratic visas with aÃâà...
Financial Tribune
April 15, 2018
British regulators have said that last month's transition deal means that EU banks with branches in London don't have to rush to apply for new UK licenses by March next year. The BoE wants EU regulators to reciprocate regarding British lenders with customers in the EU, to avoid hasty relocations that couldÃâà...
The Independent
April 15, 2018
The government is bracing itself for defeats in parliament on Brexit this week, including over its plans to take the UK out of a customs union with the EU. Ministers have resigned themselves to the fact that the House of Lords will almost certainly pass amendments backed by Tory, Labour and LiberalÃâà...
POLITICO.eu
April 15, 2018
The European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement Saturday that the EU “is supportive of all efforts aimed at the ... But not participating is also no substitute for a coherent Syria policy,” and called on EU leaders — especially, Paris, Berlin and the U.K. — to come up with an EUÃâà...
Irish Times
April 15, 2018
“In this context ,” the statement adds, “the EU was informed about targeted US French and UK airstrikes on chemical weapons facilities in Syria, these specific measures having been taken with the sole objective to prevent further use of chemical weapons and chemical substances as weapons by the SyrianÃâà...
Full Fact
April 13, 2018
This week several newspapers covered the story that the number of Britons becoming citizens of other EU countries has doubled. The number of UK citizens who acquired the citizenship of another EU member state more than doubled between 2015 and 2016, from around 2,480 to 6,560, according to theÃâà...
The Independent
March 28, 2018
The cabinet has yet to discuss any proposals to curb immigration after Brexit despite the looming start of talks with the EU, the Home Secretary has admitted. ... But Amber Rudd, giving evidence to the Home Affairs Committee, said the UK's proposals would not be published until the end of this year – as theÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 28, 2018
UK Prime Minister Theresa May proudly told the House of Commons that the EU was standing by her side in the decision, and indeed, the EU has displayed an unusual amount of solidarity on this foreign policy issue. The United Kingdom, however, is not the only country affected by Russia's aggressiveÃâà...
Exchange News Direct
March 28, 2018
... during which time European Union law would remain applicable in the United Kingdom, in accordance with the withdrawal agreement. Firms and funds would continue to benefit from passporting between the UK and EEA during the implementation period. Obligations derived from EU law would continueÃâà...
Accountancy Age
March 28, 2018
The UK is scheduled to leave the European Union by force of law on 31 March 2019. This is based on the two-year notice period started by the triggering of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. However, all sides agree that, given this is only 12 months away and with no sight of a new trading agreement, thisÃâà...
CNN International
March 28, 2018
(CNN) In a year's time, the United Kingdom will formally leave the European Union. But will anyone notice? ... Much less talked about -- in Brussels as in Britain -- is what the EU gets from the UK's membership, beyond the much-disputed amount that the UK pays into the EU's budget. What the EU getsÃâà...
The Verge
March 27, 2018
The UK's decision to part ways with the European Union has reached a new frontier: space. According to reports from The Financial Times, the EU is trying to exclude the UK from its €10 billion Galileo project; an ongoing plan to launch 30 satellites that will provide an alternative to the US-controlled globalÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 18, 2018
And Porton Down, as we now all know, is the largest military facility in the United Kingdom that has been dealing with chemical weapons research. And it's actually only eight miles from Salisbury," Russian Envoy to the EU Vladimir Chizhov said when asked how the nerve agent came to be used inÃâà...
Exchange News Direct
March 18, 2018
The Government has proposed that EU citizens that arrive in the UK will have different rights to those that are living in the UK before the transition/implementation period. The Committee states that this is inconsistent with full acceptance of the acquis which is fundamental to the transition/implementationÃâà...
euronews
March 18, 2018
Russia's ambassador to the EU, Vladimir Chizhov, has claimed in a television interview that the chemical used to poison a former Russian spy in England ... "And Porton Down, as we now all know, is the largest military facility in the United Kingdom that has been dealing with chemical weapons research.
The New Indian Express
March 18, 2018
In a new report on the progress of negotiations, the Exiting the European Union Committee said there had been "little progress made" on key issues, including how to maintain an open border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Britain is set to leave the EU on March 29, 2019, almostÃâà...
POLITICO.eu
March 18, 2018
“And Porton Down, as we now all know, is the largest military facility in the United Kingdom that has been dealing with chemical weapons research. And it's actually only eight miles from Salisbury.” Asked if he was suggesting Porton Down was behind the attack, Chizhov said: “I don't know. I don't have anyÃâà...
The Guardian
March 18, 2018
Sir Roderic Lyne, a former British ambassador to Russia, said Johnson's task would inevitably be harder because the UK was leaving the EU. “The sanctions imposed by ... “From the United States, Nato and the European Union [and] from our UN and Commonwealth partners.” The Foreign Office issued aÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 18, 2018
In a new report on the progress of negotiations, the Exiting the European Union Committee said there had been "little progress made" on key issues, including how ... Britain is set to leave the EU on Mar 29, 2019, almost three years after the referendum vote for Brexit, having triggered the two-year Article 50Ãâà...
CNBC
March 18, 2018
The nerve agent used in an attack on a former spy and his daughter could have come from a research laboratory in the United Kingdom, Russia's EU ambassador said, the BBC reported on Sunday. Vladimir Chizhov told the BBC that Russia did not stock the toxin, and said that the Porton Down lab wasÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 17, 2018
“We want to make it clear that we do not support the creation of an EU Army.” Instead the report called for Brussels to “respect the traditions” of individual countries and focus on “collaboration”, not the creation of an all-out joint army. Ireland, as a neutral state whose military primarily focus on peace-keeping,Ãâà...
European Council on Foreign Relations
March 17, 2018
But EU partners have been slower to come out in support of the UK. As the deadline for explanations that Theresa May had set for the Kremlin expired on Tuesday night, and news spread of the UK's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats in reaction, the new German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas calledÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 17, 2018
The co-chair of Leave Means Leave said that the European Union fears a deregulated Britain post-Brexit. Mr Longworth added that if Britain is successful in deregulating EU red-tape, other EU states would grow frustrated with Brussels. Speaking exclusively to Express.co.uk, Mr Longworth said: “The EUÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 17, 2018
They told the European Union's free trade commissioner that punishing the UK for leaving the bloc by imposing tariffs and customs barriers could backfire if it mad German cars more expensive to export to the lucrative UK market. Lutz Meschke, Porsche's executive board deputy chairman and finance chief,Ãâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 17, 2018
... roof with the pig sty behind it. This corner of Russia is only about 30 miles from the European Union, with the border running through a lake where national hero Alexander Nevsky repulsed Teutonic knights in the Battle on the Ice in 1242. The average salary across the water in EU member Estonia is four.
Express.co.uk
March 17, 2018
... the European Council president Donald Tusk yesterday, as the EU desperately urged Spain to come to a bloc summit in mid-May. However, Mr Rajoy rebuked Mr Tusk's pleas and pledged that Spain will boycott the Bulgaria summit between the European Union and Western Balkans. The Sofia summit isÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 17, 2018
LONDON – Japan's leading business bodies have called for Tokyo's trade deal with the European Union to apply to Britain during the around two-year transition phase that will help smooth the U.K.'s exit from the bloc. In a joint statement, the Japan Business Council in Europe and Keidanren (the JapanÃâà...
The Guardian
March 17, 2018
The UK cannot get a legally watertight transition deal until it resolves the status of the Irish border as part of a wider divorce settlement with the EU, sources have said, as Brexit talks move into an intense phase. Senior UK and EU officials are due to meet this weekend in Brussels, ahead of an EU27 BrexitÃâà...
RFI
March 17, 2018
... Macron and German Chancellor on Friday condemned "Russian interference" over a nerve gas attack on a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK nearly two weeks ago. They were speaking after meeting to plan a "clear, ambitious" roadmap for the future of the European Union and the eurozone.
Express.co.uk
March 13, 2018
The EU Financial Stability Commissioner called on the remaining 27 member states to increase efforts to integrate a single market for capital before Brexit becomes official. Brussels is seeking to boost investment flows with the creation of a capital markets union that would eliminate barriers to fund salesÃâà...
BBC News
March 13, 2018
"Should there be no credible response," Mrs May told parliament, "we will conclude that this action amounts to an unlawful use of force by the Russian state against the United Kingdom". But what could the UK actually do - both on its own, and with the help of allies? And how likely are the US, EU and others to be on board?
Catholic Herald Online
March 13, 2018
The new head of a commission representing Europe's Catholic bishops pledged to combat populism and promote European unity. “The European Union is a gain for the common good, and this is why the Church should be in constant dialogue with it,” said Archbishop Jean-Claude Hollerich of LuxembourgÃâà...
CNBC
March 13, 2018
The European Union (EU) will take a unified response to any U.S. tariffs on its steel and aluminium exports, France's economy and finance minister told CNBC. The U.K., EU and Japan are hoping to negotiate an exemption from the tariffs. Mexico and Canada are already exempt. Canadian Prime MinisterÃâà...
Quartz
March 6, 2018
The Financial Times (paywall) reported that during secret talks between US and UK negotiators in January, American officials offered a bilateral agreement to replace the current Open Skies agreement that governs air traffic between EU member states and the US. This is a problem for the three largest UKÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 6, 2018
The EU's “Golden Visa” programmes, which grant residency rights and even citizenship to wealthy people who agree to invest a certain amount of money, could lead to an influx of criminals - it has been claimed. The programmes, which are rolled out in 13 countries, including the UK, have seen RussiansÃâà...
The Guardian
March 6, 2018
May claimed in her speech last Friday that the UK could negotiate a future trade relationship based on mutual recognition of standards overseen by a third party court, made up of EU and UK nominees. But De Rynck said: “The EU has moved away in the wake of the financial crisis from mutual recognition ofÃâà...
The Guardian
March 6, 2018
It is impossible to understand the negotiating approach of the EU without first understanding how it views the UK. A successful negotiation should first be a process of discovery: understanding what matters to the other side, why it matters, and where common ground might be found. This has not happened.
The Guardian
March 6, 2018
The EU's draft text had also left out a paragraph in the December joint report in which the UK guaranteed that there would be no border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK as a consequence of Brexit. Foster said she wanted the entirety of the joint report to be translated into legal text, and sheÃâà...
