Exit from Brexit: time for BritIN
By Marios Eliades
Eighty years have already gone by since those who conceived the European idea, Jean Monnet, Robert Schumann, Altiero Spinelli, Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer and others, laid the ...
Support in Cyprus for leaving EU jumps by 12%
Support in Cyprus for leaving the European Union jumped by a whopping 12 per cent between 2019 and 2023, according to a report in French magazine Le Grand Continent using statistics from the ...
UK opposition leader Starmer vows to improve Brexit deal
British opposition leader Keir Starmer has promised to improve the country’s trading relationship with the European Union in 2025 if his Labour Party wins the next election.
Starmer told the ...
Bonus freedom to pay paltry ‘Brexit dividend’ for Britain’s banks
Banks in Britain may be free to award even bigger bonuses from January but new pay perks are unlikely to help the country’s financial industry outshine its rivals because ...
Battling Brexit, some British firms turn to invest in Europe
Sick of customs delays and extra bureaucracy since Britain left the European Union, Farrat, a small manufacturer on the edge of Manchester, is ramping up investment to compensate – in Germany.
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Brexit an ‘economic disaster’ for UK and German trade
Brexit has been an “economic disaster” for trade and investment ties between the United Kingdom and Germany, leading to a fall in German direct investment and seeing the UK decline ...
Brexit to blame for a third of Britain’s food bill rise, researchers say
Britain’s departure from the European Union has accounted for about a third of the increase in food bills for households since 2019, equivalent to about 250 pounds ($316), researchers from the London ...
Brexit deal threatens car plants — thousands of jobs at risk
British car plants will close with the loss of thousands of jobs unless the Brexit deal is swiftly renegotiated, Stellantis (STLAM.MI) has told the UK parliament, the latest in ...
‘New chapter’: Sunak strikes Northern Ireland deal with EU (Updated)
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak struck a deal with the European Union on post-Brexit trade rules for Northern Ireland on Monday, saying it would pave the way for a new ...
UK’s Sunak travelling to N.Ireland for post-Brexit talks
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was travelling to Northern Ireland on Thursday evening to sound out whether its political parties back his plans to improve the post-Brexit trading arrangements for ...
Three years on, Britain still waits for Brexit dividend
Three years after its departure from the European Union, Britain is yet to benefit from the Brexit dividend that was promised for its economy as it lags its peers on ...
Post-Brexit settlement scheme for EU citizens unlawful, London court rules
The British government’s post-Brexit settlement scheme for EU citizens is unlawful, London’s High Court ruled on Wednesday.
The Independent Monitoring Authority, a body funded by the government to ...
‘Smart’ 15-minute city for Cyprus? They must be joking
We are used to businesses whining in Cyprus. Sometimes it’s justified and sometimes it’s not, but overall, there is often a mentality that we should not ever sympathise ...
Only time will tell if Britain is better in or out of the EU
I read with interest the article from Alper Ali Riza KC comments about Brexit, saying how Brexit has brought “Britain to her knees” (Start talking to Russia again, Sunday Mail, ...
Cyprus has best prison regime in the world
By Alper Ali Riza
I hated going on prison visits. Too much clanging of gates and clinking of keys and razor barbed wire. Too many walls and doors and dogs ...
Britain wants to resolve post-Brexit trade row with EU quickly
Britain wants to reach an agreement with the European Union to solve post-Brexit trade to Northern Ireland issues quickly, foreign minister James Cleverly said on Thursday, suggesting a softer approach ...
UK’s Liz Truss appoints hardline Brexit supporter to N. Ireland Office
Britain’s new Prime Minister Liz Truss on Wednesday appointed strongly pro-Brexit lawmaker Steve Baker to a junior ministerial role in the Northern Ireland Office, an appointment criticised as sending ...
The Brexit ambassador
Outgoing British High Commissioner Stephen Lillie has served in Cyprus since 2018 and had to oversee the Brexit process. In a farewell interview with the Cyprus Mail he answers questions on ...
UK to ‘strain every last sinew’ to get N.Ireland protocol deal, minister says
Britain will “strain every last sinew” to reach agreement with the European Union on overhauling Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading arrangements before considering suspending parts of the deal, its minister ...
British residents lose their right to vote
Large British expat communities no longer have any say in how local affairs are run
By Bejay Browne
British permanent residents living in Cyprus have now officially lost the right ...
Imports from UK have plunged by 43 per cent since Brexit
Cyprus’ imports from the UK plunged by 43 per cent as a result of Brexit, yet exports were able to hold their own, primarily because they concerned dairy products, fruit and ...
Brexit trade trouble increasingly hits UK firms
British companies found it increasingly difficult over the course of this year to trade with the European Union under the terms of the Brexit trade deal struck with the bloc, ...
EU proposals to ensure UK medicine supplies to Cyprus
The European Commission has presented a list of measure to ensure the continued long-term supply of medicines to Cyprus, Malta and Northern Ireland from the UK.
Historically, medicines in Cyprus ...
UK cheating foreigners
Dominic Cummings, the architect of Brexit, claimed on Twitter last week that cheating foreigners was the core part of his job as special adviser to the British prime minister during ...