Business groups demand Brexit deal compromise

Concern grows over no-deal. Signatory: SWA chief Karen Betts (pic: Terry Murden) Businesses from across the economy are demanding the Prime Minister shows leadership and secures a Brexit deal. The CBI and 71 trade associations and professional bodies say that … Read More

Brexit: Boris Johnson calls Emmanuel Macron as deadline looms

Fishing remains one of the key sticking points of negotiations – Getty Images Boris Johnson has told the French president the UK wants to “explore every avenue” to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU, days before the PM’s … Read More

Confidence in Merkel is at all-time high in several countries during her last full year in office

German Chancellor Angela Merkel arrives at a press conference at the Federal Chancellery in Berlin following a virtual meeting with governors of Germany’s 16 states on Aug. 27, 2020. (Omer Messinger-Pool/Getty Images) As Angela Merkel enters the home stretch of … Read More

UK ponders using retired cruise ships to process asylum seekers offshore

The UK government is considering using cruise ships, possibly similar to this one docked near Athens this week, to process asylum seekrs – Petros Giannakouris/AP The UK government is considering plans to move arriving asylum seekers offshore to small islands … Read More

Boris Johnson adopts cautious approach to second UK coronavirus lockdown

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson | Leon Neal/Getty Images Pubs and restaurants will be forced to close at 10 p.m. and people will be encouraged to work from home under new restrictions announced Tuesday. LONDON — Boris Johnson took a softly-softly … Read More

Boris Johnson: UK wants to rewrite Brexit Withdrawal Agreement to stop EU being ‘abusive’

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson | Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty Images France’s Europe Minister Clément Beaune accuses British PM of adopting ‘the madman’s strategy.’ The U.K. wants to rewrite elements of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement to prevent the EU from … Read More

UK’s Johnson Defends Plan to Rewrite Brexit Deal, Says EU ‘Unreasonable’

Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson attends a debate on the Internal Market Bill at the House of Commons in London, Britain, September 14, 2020. Photo courtesy UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor LONDON – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday defended his … Read More

Macron’s Brexit swansong is about to unfold

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At a solemn ceremony at the Panthéon to mark the 150th anniversary of the (re-)birth of the Republic, president Macron chose a 59-year-old anti-Brexit British expatriate to be one of five newly naturalised French citizens emblematic of what it means … Read More

Brexit trade deal hopes fade as Britain plans to renege on agreement with EU

Prospects of a trade deal between Britain and the European Union dimmed to a flicker last night after London admitted that it plans to break international law by overriding the withdrawal agreement Boris Johnson signed last year. Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis told the House of … Read More

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