N.Ireland’s Orange Order hold July 12 parades with Brexit tensions high
Thousands of members of Northern Ireland’s Orange Order began to take part in parades across the region on Monday with the peak of the annual marching closely watched this ...
Dover warns of Brexit trade disruption as tourists hit Europe
Trade disruption could return if British holidaymakers head for European summer breaks, the head of the country’s biggest port said, calling on the government to urgently reconsider funding to ...
Germany signals quarantine relaxations after meeting UK PM Johnson
German Chancellor Angela Merkel signalled a relaxation of quarantine rules for fully-vaccinated Britons on Friday following a meeting with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson aimed at shoring up post-Brexit relations.
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Post-Brexit UK businesses struggle to trade with EU – Study
Almost a third of businesses that trade with the EU have suffered a decline or loss of business since new barriers to trade were introduced on January 1, according to a ...
Challenge to Brexit protocol for Northern Ireland rejected
Northern Ireland’s High Court on Wednesday rejected a challenge by the region’s largest pro-British parties to part of Britain’s divorce deal with the European Union, saying the ...
Brexit deal risks undermining N.Ireland peace, says UK’s Frost
The historic U.S.-brokered 1998 Irish peace agreement has been put at risk by the implementation of the Brexit divorce deal in the British province of Northern Ireland, Prime Minister ...
Brexit tensions are a test for Europe, says French minister
French European Affairs junior minister Clement Beaune said on Monday that current tensions over Brexit between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government and the European Union were “a test” ...
Brexit deal: UK agrees £333m annual fishing quotas with EU
The UK has now concluded annual fisheries negotiations with the EU, providing certainty for the fishing industry on catch limits for the remainder of 2021, the Department for Environment, Food & ...
Brexit is driving Europeans out of UK
Nearly five months after Britain’s official departure from the European Union (EU) following the end of the Brexit transition period, many EU citizens in Britain are considering leaving the ...
Ireland worried UK wants to rewrite Brexit deal
Ireland is increasingly concerned that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to completely rewrite the Northern Ireland section of the Brexit deal, RTE reported on Monday after London said the ...
Brexit: France to hold up financial services deal
Paris has said it will delay a European Union financial services deal with Britain until Prime Minister Boris Johnson grants European fishermen fair access to UK waters, a source familiar ...
Brexit: Northern Ireland trade rules ‘unsustainable’ says Frost
The way in which post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland are operating may not be sustainable for long, Britain said on Tuesday, as firms count the cost of disruption and ...
Key Scottish election as pro-independence party heads for win
The Scottish National Party (SNP), which has vowed to hold an independence referendum that could tear the United Kingdom apart should it be returned to power, will find out on ...
EU lawmakers clear post-Brexit trade deal with Britain
The European Parliament has overwhelmingly backed the post-Brexit trade deal between Britain and the European Union, clearing the last hurdle towards its ratification, while expressing clear mistrust of the British ...
EU lawmakers hold final Brexit debate before decisive vote
EU lawmakers kicked off a last debate on Tuesday on the post-Brexit trade agreement between the European Union and Britain, ahead of a vote that is expected to give the ...
‘Keep your fish!’ French fishermen block British trucks in port
French trawlermen angered by delays getting licences to fish inside British waters blocked lorries carrying UK-landed fish with burning barricades as they arrived overnight in Europe’s largest seafood processing ...
UK population growth lowest since 2003 as Covid hits
The United Kingdom’s population rose at its slowest pace in nearly two decades in the year to mid-2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic looks on track to cause the first ...
EU, UK step up N Ireland talks, key differences remain
The European Union said on Friday that Britain should not change trading rules in Northern Ireland on its own and that the bloc would continue its legal case over unilateral ...
EU Parliament partly clears path to UK trade deal vote
By Philip Blenkinsop
The European Parliament gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for two key committees to vote this week on the EU-UK trade deal, but deferred a decision on whether ...
Brexit deal scrutinised by UK lawmakers and business leaders
An independent committee including lawmakers and a number of business leaders has been set up to scrutinise and improve the UK’s Brexit deal with the EU, according to a ...
Britain advises alternative to AstraZeneca vaccine for under-30s
Britain should give an alternative to Oxford/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to under 30s where possible due to a “vanishingly” rare side effect of blood clots in the brain, Britain’...
Brexit reality only hitting now, EU’s Barnier says
The European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, said on Wednesday the reality of Britain’s decision to leave the bloc was only now being felt, years after the ...
Brexit agreement allegedly breached by UK; EU launches legal action
The European Union launched legal action against Britain on Monday for unilaterally changing trading arrangements for Northern Ireland that Brussels says breach the Brexit divorce deal agreed with London last ...
EU launches legal case over British Northern Ireland changes
The European Union launched legal action on Monday against unilateral British changes to Northern Irish trading arrangements that Brussels says breach the Brexit divorce deal agreed with London.
The bloc ...