Boris Johnson thinks there will be "some pragmatic solutions" to post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland, he has told the BBC. The prime minister held talks with EU leaders at the G7 summit on Saturday.more
A reset in Franco-British relations is possible, but only if the British Prime Minister keeps his word to Europeans and fulfills his Brexit commitments, said French President Emmanuel Macron in a conversation with Boris Johnson.more
More than 40 government-funded charities have written to Boris Johnson urging him to lift the 30 June deadline for EU citizens to apply to retain their rights to remain in the UK following Brexit.more
The EU says its patience is "wearing very thin" with the UK in talks aimed at avoiding a post-Brexit trade war. Top EU official Maros Sefcovic said the UK must start checking goods entering Northern Ireland, as agreed in the 2019 Brexit "divorce" settlement.more
After Brexit, we will continue to be very close trade partners and allies within NATO - assured the British ambassador to Poland Anna Clunes in the Sejm today. She emphasized that science, technology and investments are the key areas of Polish-British cooperation.more
The UK has signed a post-Brexit trade deal with Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, the government has announced. The agreement will be a major boost for trade between the four non-EU nations, which is already worth £21.6bn, UK minister Liz Truss said.more
Thousands of British expats in four EU countries have been warned they could lose their residency rights if they don’t apply before a deadline in 30 days’ time.more
In the first quarter of this year, the British border guards did not allow 3,294 EU citizens into the country, although they can enter the UK without visas, the Guardian reported on Friday, citing data from the interior ministry.more
The number of foreigners who obtained German nationality last year fell by 15% to 109,900, and half the decline was due to fewer British nationals becoming citizens of Germany, the Federal Statistics Office said on Wednesday.more
China has overtaken Germany to become the UK's biggest single import market for the first time since records began. Goods imported from China rose 66% from the start of 2018 to £16.9bn ($24bn) in the first quarter of this year, the Office for National Statistics said.more
The scale of losses resulting from the departure of Great Britain from the single European market amounts to EUR 1 billion only in trade with Poland - indicated the Polish Economic Institute According to analysts, it results, among others, from from excess purchases at the end of 2020, before the expected introduction of trade restrictions on the British-EU border.more
European Union leaders will urge Britain to respect the rights of their citizens, according to a draft of the statement they will agree at a summit next week, a reference to concerns about the handling of EU nationals by British immigration authorities.
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Tens of thousands of EU citizens in the UK could lose their legal status next month because of an “arbitrary” deadline that will leave vulnerable people in an “intolerable situation”, MPs and peers have warned.more
The British government has suggested it could use the concept of force majeure to absolve it of its obligations to apply the Northern Ireland Protocol, RTÉ News understands.more
A number of long-term British citizens have expressed alarm at receiving letters from the Home Office telling them they risk losing the right to work, benefits and free healthcare unless they apply for UK immigration status in the next six weeks.more
The UK is proposing to phase in new Irish Sea border checks on food products in four stages from October. The details are contained in a Northern Ireland Protocol roadmap shared with the EU, which has been seen by the BBC.more
EU citizens are being sent to immigration removal centres and held in airport detention rooms as the UK government’s “hostile environment” policy falls on them after Brexit, according to campaigners and travellers interviewed by the Guardian, wrote "Guardian" on Thursday.more