Tag: Brexit

• Monday, April 18th 2016 - 10:12 UTC

  Brexit referendum campaign took off on Friday, ten weeks ahead of June 23

  

  Campaigning in Britain's Brexit referendum officially started on Friday, ten weeks ahead of a vote that will hand Britons their first chance to have their say on Europe since 1975. With opinion polls suggesting the British public are deeply divided on whether to stay in the EU, the Leave campaign's biggest name -- charismatic London mayor Boris Johnson -- will lead its “Brexit blitz” with rallies on the weekend in northern cities.

• Friday, April 15th 2016 - 05:22 UTC

  IMF and World Bank target Brexit: 'the most serious downside risk' for the global economy

  

  A British exit from the European Union would pose “serious downside risks” to an already slowing global economy, the head of the International Monetary Fund said on Thursday.

• Thursday, March 10th 2016 - 05:26 UTC

  Murdoch and The Sun gets the Queen involved in the Brexit debate

  

  Buckingham Palace said it had launched an official complaint with Britain's press watchdog on Wednesday over a newspaper report that Queen Elizabeth backs a British exit from the European Union, saying the monarch remains politically neutral.

• Thursday, March 10th 2016 - 03:59 UTC

  Spain's Socialists would continue “dialogue and friendship” with Gibraltar even with Brexit

  

  Spain’s Socialist party would continue to advocate “dialogue and friendship” with Gibraltar even if the UK voted to leave the European Union, the PSOE’s MP for Cádiz said during a visit to the Rock.

• Tuesday, March 8th 2016 - 08:24 UTC

  Germany warns Brexit would damage UK, European and global economies

  

  British vote to leave the European Union would damage the British, European and global economies, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble said in an interview with the BBC