Tag: Brexit

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 09:31 UTC

  London and Brussels agree on an “extra mile” after an elusive post-Brexit deal

  

  London and Brussels agreed to “go the extra mile” in coming days to try to reach an elusive trade agreement despite missing their latest deadline to avert a turbulent ‘no deal’ exit for Britain from the European Union’s orbit at the end of the month.

• Monday, December 14th 2020 - 09:30 UTC

  Four Royal Navy patrol ships ready as of January to protect UK's fishing waters

  

  The British Ministry of Defense said four Royal Navy patrol ships will be ready on Jan 1 to help protect Britain’s fishing waters in the event of a post Brexit no deal.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:55 UTC

  Boris Johnson assures he will raise the Falklands' issue at the EU

  

  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has promised he will raise the matter of the Falklands fishery in the European Union after Labour MP Derek Twigg made representations on behalf of the Islands at Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday.

• Friday, December 11th 2020 - 09:40 UTC

  PM Johnson vowed to go 'an extra mile' for a Brexit deal, but also tells UK to prepare for a crash out of EU

  

  Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Thursday vowed to go the “extra mile” for a Brexit trade deal but instructed his government to prepare for Britain to crash out of the European Union’s single market at the end of this year.

• Thursday, December 10th 2020 - 09:29 UTC

  The last dinner: Boris Johnson and von der Leyen share British scallops and turbot

  

  After months of wrangling over access to British fishing waters, Britain's prime minister and the European Union's chief executive met for dinner in Brussels on Wednesday to pull Brexit trade talks back from the brink - and tucked into turbot.

• Wednesday, December 9th 2020 - 08:47 UTC

  EU/UK reach post-Brexit deal on Northern Ireland; Johnson meets EC head in Brussels

  

  The European Union and UK have reached an unofficial agreement on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland and its land border to the EU. The deal is not tied to last-gasp trade talks, but could help grease the wheels. The co-chairs of the EU-UK joint committee on Tuesday announced an “agreement in principle” pertaining in large part to the Irish border issue.

• Monday, November 30th 2020 - 09:27 UTC

  Britain and EU on the “last leg of negotiations” for a post Brexit trade deal

  

  The UK is in the “last leg of negotiations” with the EU over a post-Brexit trade deal, the foreign secretary has said. Dominic Raab told the BBC it was likely the talks were entering the “last real major week”, and an agreement remained possible if the EU showed “pragmatism”.

• Friday, November 27th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Spain warns time running out to find a Brexit agreement over Gibraltar

  

  Time is running out to find a Brexit agreement between Spain and Britain over Gibraltar, Spanish Foreign Minister Arancha Gonzalez Laya said on Thursday. At stake in the talks is avoiding a hard European Union border in southern Spain after Britain completes its departure from the EU at the end of this year.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 09:15 UTC

  Biden does not want an Ireland/UK guarded border; insists on Good Friday peace deal

  

  U.S. President-elect Joe Biden said on Tuesday he did not want to see a guarded border between Ireland and the United Kingdom, adding that he had previously discussed the matter with the British and Irish prime ministers and other European leaders.

• Wednesday, November 25th 2020 - 08:43 UTC

  UK recovers full control of its fishing waters; automatic rights for EU vessels revoked

  

  The UK’s first major domestic fisheries legislation in nearly 40 years passed into law. The Fisheries Act 2020 gives the UK full control of its fishing waters for the first time since 1973. The Fisheries Act will enable UK to control who fishes in British waters through a new foreign vessel licensing regime and ends the current automatic rights for EU vessels to fish in UK waters.