Tag: Brexit

Tuesday, May 21st 2024 - 12:25 UTC
Brexit and UK's rising costs of implementing customs to EU imports

The UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016 but remained in the bloc's single market and customs union until 2021. When UK withdrew from the EU customs union a new RU/UK Trade Cooperation Agreement (TCA) went into effect.
Thursday, May 16th 2024 - 10:57 UTC
Gibraltar's European future might impact Falklands' status

The future of Gibraltar and Northern Ireland after Brexit concerning Europe will be discussed Thursday at a meeting in Brussels in which the British Foreign Minister, Lord David Cameron, his Spanish colleague, José Manuel Albares, the Chief Minister of Gibraltar, Fabian Picardo, and the Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Maros Sefcovic, will participate.
Wednesday, February 21st 2024 - 10:45 UTC
Cameron underlines Mercosur's potential for UK after Brexit

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña and British Foreign Secretary Davis Cameron met Tuesday in Asunción to discuss bilateral issues and also to explore the South American Market's (Mercosur) potential. Peña currently holds the pro tempore presidency of Mercosur.
Thursday, February 1st 2024 - 23:56 UTC
Four years since Brexit, Northern Ireland is led by a Sinn Féin First Minister, Michelle O'Neill.

BBC has recalled that at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (midnight Brussels time, as January became February there), the EU shrank, the UK was out. Four years later, as the latest solution to one of the knottiest of consequences of Brexit, or at least the flavor of Brexit chosen, is revealed.
Wednesday, December 27th 2023 - 07:53 UTC
UK will keep the EU kilos and liters measuring systems, but pints are to prevail when it comes to wines

Despite Brexit, the United Kingdom is not planning to change metric laws inherited from the European Union, meaning traders can use Britain's traditional imperial weighing system only alongside the metric one. This follows a public consultation with nearly 99% of respondents saying they were happy with kilos and liters.
Wednesday, September 20th 2023 - 08:50 UTC
Labour's Starner on tour to polish his international standing, hosted by Macron

French President Emmanuel Macron hosted the leader of UK's opposition Labour Party, Keir Starmer, at Elysee Palace in Paris on Tuesday. The meeting comes as Starmer — increasingly confident that he can oust the ruling Conservatives and bring Labour back into government for the first time in well over a decade — has been making a number of appearances on the world stage.
Monday, July 17th 2023 - 11:41 UTC
UK signs trade treaty to join Trans Pacific partnership, 'the world's fastest growing region'

The United Kingdom on Sunday formally signed a treaty to join a major Indo/Pacific block, in what is described as the biggest trade deal since the country left the European Union, (Brexit) at the beginning of 2020.
Wednesday, May 17th 2023 - 10:51 UTC
Brexit aftermath, UK Parliament takes initiative as to how and when scrapping EU legislation

The British government has suffered defeats in the House of Lords over plans to scrap certain EU laws by the end of the year, reports BBC. Peers backed an amendment which would give Parliament greater scrutiny over which rules should be ditched and also voted to give devolved governments, rather than Westminster ministers, the final say on whether EU rights should be kept.
Wednesday, April 26th 2023 - 03:45 UTC
Debate in UK Parliament on impacts of Brexit; request for a public inquest

Brexit and its consequences is not a closed issue and remains very much alive. Not only did Scotland, Northern Ireland, Gibraltar reject Brexit, but other Overseas Territories such as the Falkland Islands have suffered from the 2016 initiative.
Tuesday, February 14th 2023 - 10:16 UTC
UK economy, Brexit and the productivity slowdown controversy

Jonathan Haskel, an external member of the Bank of England monetary policy committee, said a wave of investment “stopped in its tracks” in 2016 following the Brexit vote.