Blue passports will be issued for the first time in almost three decades from next month to mark Britain's departure from the EU, the government has announced.more
The Netherlands is ready to contribute more to the EU coffers, but the next EU budget must acknowledge the Brexit gap - said Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte after the failure of the EU summit in Brussels on the EU budget for 2021-2027.more
New immigration rules are a "disaster" for London's ability to attract big events and deliver vital housing and infrastructure, business leaders warned today.more
The British press is quite cautious about the new, point immigration system toda, stressing that it must be accompanied by an improvement in British employee productivity.more
Uncertainty associated with Brexit caused that last year more than doubled the number of companies that opened or moved their headquarters from Great Britain to the Netherlands - the Dutch Foreign Investment Agency (NFIA) has informed.more
The EU "27" strengthens its position before negotiations on a new agreement with the United Kingdom regarding future relations between the two parties, demanding a guarantee of fair competition from London - results from the draft negotiating mandate Reuters reached.more
The British government has presented plans for a new point immigration system that will be in force from the beginning of 2021. It will equalize the status of EU citizens and other countries, and will drastically reduce the opportunities for low-skilled people to work.more
A British man's tweet about waiting for about an hour at Schiphol airport in Amsterdam went viral, after he wrote, "This isn't the Brexit I voted for."more
The Spanish media are still analyzing the situation in the European Union after Brexit. At the same time, they emphasize the growing importance of Poland, which - as the local media say - found itself in the European "strict club" together with Paris and Berlinmore
There haws been a 10% drop in the number of skilled workers from overseas applying to work in private companies since the Brexit vote, a new report suggests.more
Senior UK politicians have been criticised for failing to attend the Munich Security Conference - thought to be one of the largest gatherings of political leaders.more
In the first meeting with his new cabinet Boris Johnson and his team signed off on a new Ausralian-style points-based immigration system, which will prohibit any EU migrant earning under £23,000 per year from entering the country in a move to end reliance on unskilled labour.more
Frustrated Maciej Ozdoba has lived in Scotland for 16 years but was left in the dark for nearly a year due to the under-fire 'settled status' scheme.more
The Spanish media say that the last visit of French President Emmanuel Macron to Poland was an attempt to win Warsaw's sympathy and drag it towards the Paris-Berlin axis. They note that after Brexit, internal divisions in the EU are even more visible.more
The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen appealed in Strasbourg for an ambitious EU-UK agreement, indicating that Brussels' offer for London is unprecedented. MEPs emphasized that a non-EU country cannot have the privileges of a Member State.more
Ireland goes to the polls on Saturday (8 February), with Prime Minister Leo Varadkar touting his successful handling of Brexit, but facing pressure over housing and healthcare.more
Brexiteers have reacted with fury after the European Commission insisted that it would force Britain to pay the £1 billion bill Brussels sent the UK on Brexit Day.more
An estimated 500,000 European Union nationals in Britain have yet to apply for a new immigration status, which most will need to remain in the country after Brexit.more