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Montevideo, April 19th 2024 - 23:49 UTC

Tag: European Union

  • Thursday, March 7th 2019 - 05:26 UTC

    EU has urged to table fresh Brexit proposals within the next 48 hours

    The UK has said “reasonable” proposals to satisfy MPs' concerns about being tied to EU rules had already been made

    The UK has been urged to table fresh proposals within the next 48 hours to break the Brexit impasse. EU officials said they would work non-stop over the weekend if “acceptable” ideas were received by Friday to break the deadlock over the Irish backstop.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 09:20 UTC

    Theresa May's “Stronger Towns Fund” described by Labour as “Brexit bribery”

    PM May will set plans on Monday for a £1.6 billion fund to help to boost economic growth in Brexit-supporting communities

    British Prime Minister Theresa May will on Monday, March 11 set out plans for a £1.6 billion (US$2.11 billion) fund to help to boost economic growth in Brexit-supporting communities with ministers denying it was a bribe to win support for her EU exit deal.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    Northern Ireland warns of “grave” consequences of a no-deal Brexit

    Northern Ireland chief civil servant, David Sterling comes close to suggesting there may have to be some hardening of the Irish border.

    Northern Ireland's chief civil servant has warned a no-deal Brexit could have “grave” consequences for the region. In a letter to Stormont's political parties, David Sterling comes close to suggesting there may have to be some hardening of the Irish border.

  • Wednesday, March 6th 2019 - 08:06 UTC

    UK considering massive tariffs cut in the event of a no-deal Brexit

    Many supporters of Brexit argue that tariffs on food and other items should be scrapped in order to lower prices for consumers

    The UK government may cut trade tariffs on between 80% and 90% of goods in the event of a no-deal Brexit, reports say. Some tariffs would be scrapped completely, including those on car parts, and some agricultural produce. However, 10-20% of key products would continue to be protected by the current level of tariffs, including some textiles, cars, beef, lamb and dairy.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 10:20 UTC

    Google urges EU parliament to reject an overhaul of the online copyright law

    Tech giants, artistic creators and EU member states have battled for three years over the reform, with Google making a last-minute effort to dissuade MEPs

    Internet giant Google on Monday urged the European Parliament to resist approving a planned overhaul of the bloc's online copyright law that the company said would hurt Europe for “decades to come”. European lawmakers could vote as soon as next week on the landmark legislation that is intended to modernize copyright for the digital age but has set off a furious lobbying war in Brussels.

  • Tuesday, March 5th 2019 - 09:49 UTC

    Spain and UK sign Gibraltar fiscal treaty to fight tax fraud and money laundering

    Spain has long criticized Gibraltar's low-tax regime, while the tiny Overseas Territory argues it is a crucial part of its thriving, services-based economy.

    Spain and Britain on Monday signed a fiscal treaty on Gibraltar as Brexit nears to fight tax fraud and money laundering via the British overseas territory. Hailed as “massively significant” by Gibraltar's leader, Fabian Picardo, it was signed separately by Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell and David Lidington, Prime Minister Theresa May's effective deputy.

  • Monday, March 4th 2019 - 08:00 UTC

    EU discusses future partnership of Overseas Territories in Tahiti

    All overseas territories are islands, located from the tropics to the poles, in the Atlantic, Antarctic, Arctic, Caribbean, Indian Ocean and Pacific

    At a meeting on Friday in Papeete (Tahiti) in French Polynesia, the EU discussed its future partnership with the Overseas Countries and Territories and signed five cooperation programmes with them totalling €44 million.

  • Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 08:35 UTC

    UK will not lower its food standards to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with US

    If free of EU trade rules, the US want the UK to remove such so-called “sanitary and physio-sanitary” standards on imported goods.

    The UK will not lower food standards to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the US, the government says. It comes after Washington published its objectives for a US-UK trade pact. The US wants “comprehensive market access” for its farmers' products that would see more US-made food on British supermarket shelves.

  • Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 07:24 UTC

    Madrid unilaterally extends protection for (400.000) Britons living in Spain

    Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said the main purpose was that no-one, British or Spanish, would be left unprotected.

    Spain's cabinet has approved measures for Britons in Spain to continue living there as now if the UK leaves the EU without a deal. Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said the main purpose was that no-one, British or Spanish, would be left unprotected. Spain estimates that the measures, which would become law under a no-deal Brexit, would grant residency rights to about 400,000 UK citizens.

  • Saturday, March 2nd 2019 - 04:40 UTC

    EU money laundering black list blocked following US and Saudi complaints

    “It's heartening to see common sense from the member states prevail over the commission's dogmatic posturing on this issue,” Gordon Sondland said

    The United States on Friday welcomed the blocking of a proposal to add a group of countries, including four American territories, to the EU money-laundering blacklist after almost all member states opposed it. The US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland, hit out at the “dogmatic posturing” of the European Commission, the bloc's executive arm.