Tag: Brexit

• Friday, February 7th 2020 - 09:45 UTC

  UK expanding fisheries protection to police territorial waters in a no-Brexit trade-deal scenario

  

  The British government is hiring additional ships for the Royal Navy amid growing Brexit tensions - with reports as many as 24 extra boats could be drafted into service. The Times reports that “Ministers are getting ready to triple the number of boats in Britain’s fisheries protection squadron to police territorial waters in the event of a no-trade-deal Brexit”.

• Wednesday, February 5th 2020 - 07:20 UTC

  Portsmouth to strengthen twinning relations with the Falkland Islands

  

  The city of Portsmouth in England will continue to seek global relationships following the UK's departure from the European Union by twinning with the Falkland Islands and Halifax in Canada, reports the Plymouth News.

• Tuesday, February 4th 2020 - 07:14 UTC

  Warnings of UK data privacy legislation vacuum, following post Brexit 2021

  

  British people’s data privacy will be “hanging in the balance” after Brexit, former Cambridge Analytica staffer-turned-whistleblower Brittany Kaiser warned as the country leaves the European Union on Friday.

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  UK and EU begin this Monday post-Brexit negotiations

  

  Britain on Sunday began to detail a hard-line stance in upcoming negotiations with the European Union on future relations, following its historic departure from the bloc. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who will embark on a tour of Asia and Australia this week as he looks to pave the way for global trade deals, warned that London will not accept alignment with EU rules.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:55 UTC

  Cheers and tears as UK ends 47 years of European Union membership

  

  Britain on Friday ended almost half a century of European Union membership, making a historic exit after years of bitter arguments to chart its own uncertain path in the world. There were celebrations and tears across the country as the EU's often reluctant member became the first to leave an organization set up to forge unity among nations after the horrors of World War II.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:50 UTC

  Gibraltar Marks EU Departure

  

  Gibraltar originally joined the EU under the British Treaty of Accession in 1972. On the evening of Friday 31st January 2020 at midnight Central European Time the departure from the European Union at the appointed time the UK formally ceased being a member state.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:31 UTC

  Scotland votes for independence referendum; EU flag will remain flying outside Holyrood

  

  Scotland’s Parliament voted this week ahead of Friday, to hold a new referendum on Scottish independence, a move intended to increase political pressure on the British government as the UK leaves the European Union.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  “We must stand up for Europe, otherwise at some point we won’t have it any more”

  

  Britain’s departure from the European Union shows the bloc must deliver for its citizens and its leaders must stand up for the project or else risk it failing, the head of the European Union’s executive, Ursula von der Leyen, said on Friday.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:27 UTC

  Boris Johnson confident that “we can turn this opportunity into a stunning success”

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Brexit offers Britain an opportunity for “renewal and change” as he called on the divided nation to pull together in an address ahead of its split with the European Union.

• Friday, January 31st 2020 - 10:26 UTC

  Debate triggers in EU as to how the €12-billion hole left by UK will be filled

  

  When Britain leaves the European Union at midnight on Friday (Jan 31) the bloc loses the second-biggest net contributor to its budget, leaving a €12-billion (US$13-billion) hole in its finances.