British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday that the outstanding issues between the United Kingdom and the European Union have been well understood, and if more energy is put into talks, the agreement can be reached in July.more
Voters in the United Kingdom may notify the consul of their intention to vote by correspondence in the Polish presidential election by 15 June at the latest until 24:00. Voting in the British Isles takes place only by correspondence.more
The European Union and the U.K. government have decided to intensify Brexit talks over the coming weeks amid growing concerns that both sides might fail to reach a trade deal by the end of the year. more
Opposition leader Micheal Martin is set to become Ireland's new taoiseach as the country's two dominant political parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, struck a deal to enter government together for the first time.more
The British government intends to tighten the punishment for desecrating war monuments so that such acts are punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years - the Sunday Telegraph reported.more
The prime minister has ‘urgently’ ordered ministers, medical officials and scientists to review the two-metre social distancing rule, amid calls that it should be scrapped.more
Michael Gove has said he has “formally confirmed” to the EU the UK will not extend the Brexit transition period. The Cabinet Office minister announced the decision on Friday, adding: “The moment for extension has now passed”.more
Brussels and London rule out a compromise on Brexit. "The disaster is fast approaching," informs today's Rzeczpospolita, noting that the British side has ceased to see the sense in communicating with the European Union.more
In the United Kingdom and Ireland, due to the epidemic situation prevailing in these countries as well as organizational and legal conditions, the election of the President of the Republic of Poland will take place only by correspondence.more
Poland has informed the European Commission that since Saturday, June 13, it has lifted controls and restrictions on crossing the internal borders of the EU - said EC spokesman Adalbert Jahnz today.more
The British government backed out of the plan for all primary school children in England to return to classes before the holidays. Schools have warned from the outset that it is not possible to comply with recommendations on how to prevent the spread of coronavirus in such a short time.more
The number of deaths from Covid-19 has increased over the last 24 hours in the UK in the last 24 hours, which means the total number of fatalities in the country's epidemic is 40,597, the UK Ministry of Health said this afternoon.more
Some members of the British government are lobbying for pubs and restaurants to be able to resume their operations - for now serving only outside - on June 22, two weeks ahead of schedule, the Financial Times reports today.more
Yesterday Poland recorded the largest increase in newly infected in the EU, and the number of patients on the Vistula increases every day - at a time when their number is falling in Europe or reaching 0. WHO warned some time ago that the countries of Central and Eastern Europe are still at the beginning of the epidemic and are dangerously far behind other parts of Europe.more
Anti-racist protests in Great Britain have been "shattered by banditry," Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday announcing that the guilty would be held accountable.more
Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar has announced that plans to ease coronavirus lockdown restrictions in Ireland are being accelerated and will move to 'Phase 2 Plus' on Monday.more
With a strong industrial base and cheap labor, Central and Eastern Europe can greatly benefit from moving factories to the Old Continent, "Le Monde," says the journal, reminding the Warsaw-Paris conflict over labor costs.more
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday firmly rejected suggestions that she might seek a fifth term at the helm after pledging in 2018 to step down when her current government leaves office.more
One in five Brits are now following lockdown rules less strictly than before – and a third of those people say Dominic Cummings behaviour is a factor in that change.
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Specialist in geopolitics, prof. Frederic Encel pointed out that the EU cannot be respected unless it jointly draws conclusions from a pandemic. "This is the last whistle for her" - emphasized Encel, acknowledging that so far Europe is "pinched between China and America". The professor pointed out that EU countries that are afraid to renounce their sovereignty may soon lose it completely.more
Andrew Bailey held a conference call on Tuesday with Britain’s biggest lenders in which he emphasised that they needed to step up their plans for Britain failing to secure a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU before a deadline at the end of 2020, Sky News reported.more
