Thanks to Brexit, France has become the third largest market for goods from Poland, after Germany and the Czech Republic, said the Polish Economic Institute (PIE).more
The UK's trade deal with the EU could collapse in a row over Northern Ireland, says a senior Irish minister. The UK is thought to be preparing to suspend parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol.more
Four men hijacked and set fire to a bus in a pro-British unionist community in Northern Ireland on Sunday evening, police said. "It was reported that four men got onto the bus and ordered passengers off before the bus was then set alight," the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement.more
The UK and France remained locked in a bitter cross-Channel confrontation over fishing licences for French boats in English waters after a meeting between UK Brexit minister Lord David Frost and France’s Europe minister, Clément Beaune, in Paris on Thursday.more
The British trawler, which was detained by French authorities last Thursday over a dispute over fishing rights after Brexit, was released yesterday and left the port of Le Havre in the evening.more
The wave of re-emigration has started. This is the biggest wave of returns since joining the EU. If the pandemic and Brexit were the main reasons for the high level of Poles returning to the country, this trend is likely not to continue in the coming years - experts say.more
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday he was postponing planned trade sanctions on Britain so that negotiators from both sides could work on new proposals to defuse their dispute over post-Brexit fishing rights.more
The UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has warned France it has 48 hours to back down on threats made in the row over fishing licences or the UK will begin dispute talks set out in the Brexit deal.more
European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said the United Kingdom must not "embark on a path of confrontation" amid tension over post-Brexit fishing rights and goods passing through Northern Ireland, The Telegraph reported on Sunday.more
It is up to France and whether it will withdraw from the threats to close access to some of its ports by British cutters, that the dispute over fishing rights will be resolved, said the spokesman of the British prime minister after Boris Johnson's meeting with Emmanuel Macron.more
"The British must respect their commitments," French Prime Minister Jean Castex said today, commenting on the conflict with the government in London over fishing licences for French fishermen.more
The impact of Brexit on the UK economy will be worse in the long run compared to the coronavirus pandemic, the chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility has said.
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British officials are urgently investigating the circumstances surrounding the seizure of a British fishing trawler by French authorities, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Minister George Eustice said today.more
Two British fishing vessels have been stopped and one fined in the Gulf of Seine. This is part of a policy of "tighter controls" in the conflict between France and the UK over fishing after Brexit.more
The majority of UK employers are planning to hire staff over the next 12 months, the highest recruitment intentions in eight years, as Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic have caused acute shortages of workers in sectors ranging from haulage to hospitality and social care.more
British Brexit minister David Frost said on Monday that the European Union's proposals to solve the problem of trade involving Northern Ireland did not go far enough and significant gaps remained between the two sides.more
During the coronavirus pandemic, the number of European Union citizens applying for benefits in the UK has doubled, with concerns that some of them receive benefits from their countries of origin, reports the Daily Telegraph.more
The European Union is behaving more and more like an imperial power, an example of which is its dispute with Poland and the way it wants to force it to comply - says Andrew Tettenborn in the online magazine "Spiked", prof. law from Swansea University.more
The UK has agreed a free trade deal with New Zealand which it says will benefit consumers and businesses. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the deal will cut costs for exporters and open up New Zealand's job market to UK professionals.more
The Home Office has launched an action to inform EU citizens about the "View and Prove" service, which allows you to easily show proof of your right to stay in the UK. The British Ministry of the Interior has also prepared a number of answers to the most common question related to having settled status.more
JEREMY CLARKSON has revealed he would have to rule out certain countries if he decides to "quit Britain" and relocate, as the Clarkson's Farm star blasted Australia and New Zealand for being too "woke".more
