Tag: Brexit Europe

• Monday, June 15th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  Boris Johnson will try to reignite post-Brexit trade talks by video with EU leaders, Monday

  

  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will meet EU chiefs by video link Monday to try to breathe new life into stalled post-Brexit trade talks, with both sides entrenched in long-held positions.

• Friday, January 10th 2020 - 09:57 UTC

  “Brexit done”: UK lawmakers vote 330/231 to leave the European Union on January 31

  

  Lawmakers approved legislation on Thursday which will allow Britain to leave the European Union on Jan 31 with an exit deal, ending more than three years of tumult over the terms of the unprecedented divorce.They voted 330 to 231 in favour of the European Union (Withdrawal Agreement) Bill, which implements an exit deal agreed with the EU last year.

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 06:30 UTC

  UK's Brexit secretary expects an agreement with EU finalized before 21 November

  

  Britain's Brexit secretary has told lawmakers that he expects a long-elusive divorce deal with the European Union to be finalized before November 21, though there is still little sign of a breakthrough on the vexed issue of the Irish border.

• Thursday, December 21st 2017 - 11:07 UTC

  Transition period after Brexit ends the last day of 2020, states EC

  

  The European Union wants a transition period after Brexit to end no later than the last day of 2020, according to the European Commission's negotiating directives agreed on Wednesday. That date, coinciding with the end of the EU's seven-year budget period and 21 months after Britain departs the EU, had long been expected as the target end point of the transition.

• Thursday, December 21st 2017 - 10:59 UTC

  Mrs. May reaffirms Gibraltar will be part of UK Brexit negotiations

  

  Gibraltar will not be excluded from any aspect of the UK’s Brexit negotiations, Prime Minister Theresa May insisted again, after the European Commission appeared to indicate that Spain would have a veto on any transitional arrangements covering the Rock.

• Saturday, July 15th 2017 - 07:57 UTC

  Big banks moving out of London to Dublin, Frankfort, Paris

  

  Barclays is in talks with Irish regulators about expanding its presence in Dublin in the run up to Brexit. It is the latest financial company to indicate how it is repositioning to cope with the UK's exit from the EU.

• Monday, March 13th 2017 - 08:30 UTC

  EU should be “open and generous” to UK citizens, says European Parliament leader

  

  British citizens should be able to choose to keep various benefits of EU membership including the freedom of movement after Brexit, the European Parliament’s chief negotiator has said. Guy Verhofstadt said he hoped to convince European leaders to allow Britons to keep certain rights if they apply for them on an individual basis.

• Monday, January 9th 2017 - 11:14 UTC

  Scotland links Brexit negotiations to a second independence referendum

  

  Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has warned Prime Minister Theresa May that she is not “bluffing” on the promise of a second independence referendum if Scotland is “driven off a hard Brexit cliff”. In an interview with BBC's Andrew Marr she felt the prime minister had “no plan” in terms of her strategy for the UK leaving the EU.

• Wednesday, December 7th 2016 - 11:57 UTC

  Supreme Court debates if PM May can use a regal prerogative to implement Brexit

  

  Four day debate Five months after United Kingdom's referendum to abandon the European Union, the question of who actually gets to pull the trigger on Brexit remains a muddle. Prime Minister Theresa May says she does. A high-level British court argued otherwise last month, ruling that Parliament must have a say. Now it’s up to the U.K. Supreme Court, which this week began hearing arguments in a case that could complicate May’s plan to set in motion Britain’s exit by the end of March.

• Friday, December 2nd 2016 - 09:33 UTC

  Hollande will not run for re-election; conservative Fillon calls it a lucid reaction “to failure”

  

  French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday he would not seek a second term in next year's presidential election, a surprise move that clears the way for an alternative left-wing candidate, most probably his prime minister Manuel Valls.