Tag: Brexit
Even after Brexit deal and election, UK will face hard questions
“Even with a deal, even with an election, these Brexit questions will still need to be answered” By Helen Parr, courtesy of UK In a Changing Europe Brexit seems deadlocked after the House of Commons voted in favour of Boris Johnson’s withdrawal agreement, but against the timetable to push the legislation through before 31 […]
Brexit: Now it’s time to wait
By Anthony Egan, courtesy of Open Europe Earlier this week, Parliament voted in favour of the Withdrawal Agreement Bill in principle but rejected the Government’s timetable for scrutinising the Bill and final vote. While the Bill has cleared the first hurdle to ratification, which would secure the UK’s negotiated departure from the EU, […]
Brexit deal leaves future details wide open
By David Shiels, courtesy of Open Europe Tomorrow the House of Commons will sit for the first time on a Saturday since 1982. MPs will have the opportunity to approve or reject the revised Brexit deal, which was published by the Government and the European Commission yesterday. In a press conference on […]
“This deal or no deal”: EU has run out of patience
By Fabian Zuleeg, courtesy of European Policy Centre While there is still some uncertainty, it looks like the EU27 have reached a deal with Boris Johnson. The task for the Prime Minister now is to find a majority in the House of Commons, already complicated […]
TES Weekly Update: Science Delivers, Politics Withers
Diabetes breakthrough shows there’s hope! Brexit mess shows… something else Our world remains a study in contrasts, and that’s about the most that can be said for it. On the one hand, a breakthrough in the clinical understanding of diabetes promises to quietly revolutionize the way we treat one of the world’s deadliest […]
The Nature of Brexit: Autumn and Everything After
By Calum Nicholson, UK Correspondent “You must understand that a world is dying, that old values, the old prejudices, and the old bases of power and prestige are going.” These were the words of Edward R. Murrow to his CBS radio audience in the Autumn of 1940, in a report from London […]
No-deal Brexit will hit global economy hard, UK hardest of all
With Brexit negotiations going down to the wire (again) it looks increasingly likely that the UK will “crash out” of the European Union without a deal if the EU refuses to grant another extension. This would be very damaging to the British economy and […]
British business confidence going down the tubes
Political chaos is rarely good for business, and the febrile atmosphere prevailing in Parliament as the UK prepares to (maybe) exit the EU on October 31 is no exception. With massive uncertainty hanging over the country about Brexit, including what form it will […]
EU leaders giving up on possibility of Brexit deal
They always said it was the sensible one — no more! The UK’s whacky spin round the political bend continues, with all all manner of unprecedented nonsense threatening to undermine its unwritten constitution, and the continued volatility is causing its interlocutors in Brussels to […]