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 or disused ferries moored of the British coast while their claims are processed, officials have…
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 approach to the second nationwide coronavirus lockdown in the U.K. The prime minister on Wednesday…
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 being “abusive” to Britain, the country’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said. “We assumed our EU…
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is finding that the benefit of the doubt over Brexit and the coronavirus is finite after all | Leon Neal/Getty Images UK prime minister’s aggressive tactics are undermining trust abroad and at home. Mujtaba Rahman is the head of Eurasia Group’s Europe practice and the author of POLITICO‘s Beyond the Bubble column….
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 plan to unilaterally rewrite Britain’s divorce deal with the European Union as an insurance policy…
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 to become French. Macron does nothing without gauging its historical and political theatre. Coming just days…
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 Commons that the internal markets Bill to be published on Wednesday will see Britain reneging…
London: All social gatherings of more than six people will be banned in England, under new limits to be announced by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday, as coronavirus cases grow. At a press conference, Johnson will confirm that police will have new powers to disperse and fine any group larger than six people meeting…
Boris Johnson says the UK is ready for any eventuality The chances of the UK leaving the European Union without a trade deal have risen sharply as negotiations have been threatened by London’s insistence that it have full autonomy over its state-aid plans, according to negotiators and diplomats. Fears in Dublin, London, Brussels and other…
LONDON — Britain this week began deploying sophisticated military drones to patrol the English Channel to end a surge in crossings by desperate migrants trying to reach its shores. A British artillery regiment deployed its Watchkeeper WK450 to fly over the Channel. The unmanned aerial vehicle, bristling with sensors, will gather intelligence of illegal traffic…