Tag: Brexit

• 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.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2023 - 10:35 UTC

  “Bregret”, the new word to express regret for voting Britain lo leave the EU

  

  Like Brexit a few years ago, popular vocabulary in UK has incorporated “Bregret”, basically meaning “regretting the decision to vote for Britain leaving the European Union”. And one of the latest opinion polls indicates a dramatic shift in the UK as to such a momentous vote. The poll, by Focaldata and taking in 10,000 people across the country, asked respondents whether they agreed or disagreed with the statement, “Britain was wrong to leave the EU”.

• Saturday, December 3rd 2022 - 07:00 UTC

  Increase in food costs for the average UK household because of Brexit, LSE paper Brexit a

  

  Brexit added £210 to the average British household food bill in the two years to the end of 2021, according to a new academic paper from the London School of Economics (LSE), with price rises hitting the poorest families.