Yesterday saw a slight easing of the dispute over the right of French fishermen to fish in British waters. European fishermen can fish in British waters if they worked there before Brexit. However, the French and British are quarrelling over the documents to prove this.more
The British Government yesterday expressed its disappointment at the blockade of the Channel Tunnel and the port of Calais announced by French fishermen for today. French fishermen intend to protest against the refusal of some of them to be granted licences to fish in British waters.more
The British government will be forced to suspend the Northern Ireland Protocol if talks with the European Union over changes to it fail soon, Boris Johnson warned yesterday in an interview with Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin.more
European Commission vice-president Maros Sefcovic announced that talks with the United Kingdom on trade rules in Northern Ireland will "likely" continue next year.more
Britain and France remained trapped in fierce cross-channel conflict Fishing license For a French boat in the British waters after a meeting with British Minister Sir David Frost and French Minister of Europe Clement Beaune in Paris on Thursday.more
After two years of drastic post-Brexit turbulence, the British economy still faces enormous challenges. In September, due to the fuel crisis, many drivers were not able to fill up their cars with full fuel, and rates for HGV drivers went up to 300 pounds per working day.more
The EU's chief Brexit negotiator has welcomed what he says is "a changing tone of discussion" in talks about the Northern Ireland Protocol. Maroš Šefčovič was talking after a meeting in London with Lord Frost.more
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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