Brexit - Latest news

Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, has acknowledged that Brexit has caused problems for the region - while stressing that violence is unacceptable.more

Northern Ireland's First Minister Arlene Foster has appealed to young people in loyalist areas not to be drawn into further violence after police officers were attacked in Belfast for a second consecutive night.more

The coronavirus pandemic significantly strengthened the migration trend started after the Brexit referendum, and as a result, more European Union citizens left the UK in 2020 than came to it - the "Financial Times" reports today.more

Leave campaigners have begun raising funds to open a Museum of Brexit after the long-awaited project was granted charitable status.more

The UK has maintained changes it made to Northern Ireland's trading arrangements are "lawful" and "well precedented" after the European Union launched legal action against it.more

Brussels has launched legal action against the UK over alleged breaches of the two sides’ Brexit deal on Northern Ireland, escalating a dispute that has soured relations and which could lead to British goods being hit with tariffs.more

The Turing program has started today in the UK, to replace British students with the EU Erasmus student exchange program. Thanks to it, 35,000 students will be able to go to foreign universities - not only in the European Union - students per year.more

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has defended Britain’s moves to ease post-Brexit trade checks with Northern Ireland that have infuriated Brussels.more

British GDP contracted by 2.9 percent in January. - reported the National Statistical Office of the ONS. However, this is a much smaller decline than analysts feared. Meanwhile, British exports to the EU dropped sharply - by 40.7 percent and imports from it - by 28.8 percent.more

The British government has delayed plans to introduce full border checks with the EU for another six months as businesses warned that customs systems and port infrastructure were still not ready.more

Boris Johnson believes a campaign to encourage people to eat British-caught fish could help the industry combat post-Brexit disruption. more

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab writes to Charles Michel to say UK has 'not blocked the export of a single COVID-19 vaccine.'more

The European Commission announced the completion of negotiations with the United States on the division of WTO tariff quotas in trade in agricultural products. The agreement had to be renegotiated after Great Britain left the Community. The EU will keep part of the current quotas. The agreement concerns, inter alia, trade in beef, poultry, rice, dairy products, fruit, vegetables and wine.more

The first two months of Great Britain's full independence from the European Union, as well as the previous 11 months of the transition period, indicate that both the concerns raised before the referendum by the opponents of Brexit and the promises made by supporters were greatly exaggerated.more

Foreign workers are leaving Britain at the fastest pace since World War II, presenting a challenge to an economy already roiled by Brexit and the coronavirus.more

The value of Polish export of goods to Great Britain increased by 11.9 percent at the end of 2020 compared to the same period last year, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) reported.more

Already over 660,000 Poles in Great Britain have obtained the status of a settled person, the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Paweł Jabłoński announced. He added that over 160,000 compatriots had been granted temporary settlement status. Over 903,000 Poles applied in total.more

A special “Scottish visa” could help address population decline north of the border, according to Scottish government advisers. more

The numerous returns to their homeland of Poles living in Great Britain in recent months are not caused by Brexit or the loss of job. The main reason are the parents left behind in Poland, who have no one to look after - the Polish finance website Money.pl reports.more

Amsterdam overtook London in January as the largest stock trading center in Europe, the Financial Times reported, quoted by Dutch media. The British daily estimates that Amsterdam is one of the first beneficiaries of Brexit.more

After serious perturbations, the situation on the islands border with the EU has basically returned to normal. Despite this, the number of people willing to transport goods there is falling - indicates the weekend edition of "Puls Biznesu".more

The coronavirus crisis and Brexit show just how vulnerable global supply chains are. Will the production of important goods be moved back to Germany? - wonders the German weekly "Spiegel".more

The UK and the European Union confirmed their commitment to resolve issues related to the implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol yesterday, but a statement released after the meeting between Michael Gove and Marosz Szefczovicz suggests that divergences remain.more

The Home Office has today (11 February 2021) announced it has hit the milestone of five million applications to the EU Settlement Scheme with four months still to go before the deadline of 30 June 2021.more

Cornish fishermen struggling with post-Brexit export problems intend to rename one species of fish and one species of crab to attract British consumers who have so far been rejected by their English names, the BBC said.more