EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Monday that the bloc has offered a “zero-for-zero tariff” trade arrangement on industrial goods with the United States in a bid to avoid a full-on trade war.
France’s trade minister said the European Union’s response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs could be “extremely aggressive” amid increasingly heated rhetoric from Paris.
UK lawmakers voted overwhelmingly in favour of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s deal with the EU to rewrite the rules on Northern Ireland trade.
The Brexit deal on Northern Ireland will still leave the European Court of Justice with ultimate authority, Maroš Šefčovič admitted.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” European Commission Vice President for Interinstitutional Relations and Foresight Maros Sefcovic stated that he’s “very happy” Europe’s Green Deal was an “inspiration” for the Inflation Reduction Act, but also stated that the U.S.
A proposal by the EU supposedly aimed at solving ongoing issues to do with Brexit has been slammed by British officials as not actually fixing anything.
A senior official in Europe has hinted that UK parlimentarians should consider killing the UK government’s Brexit bill on Northern Ireland.
The UK is to scrap a number of elements of the post-Brexit agreement it had previously agreed with the EU over Northern Ireland.
The British government has proposed an “entirely new” arrangement for trade with the EU on Northern Ireland, admitting that the agreement reached by the Tory government is “not working”.
LONDON (AP) – The leader of Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party heightened post-Brexit political tensions on Thursday, saying the UK’s divorce deal with the European Union could collapse the Belfast government and trigger a new era of violence and instability.
Lord Frost, Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator and current head of Task Force Europe, has admitted that the Northern Ireland protocol of the EU deal is damaging businesses, consumers, and community relations in Ulster.
The European Union is launching legal action against the United Kingdom over its efforts to protect trade between the British mainland and Northern Ireland, vindicating critics of Boris Johnson’s deals with the bloc who said they ensured Brexit was by no means “done”.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged MPs to back his bill to amend the Withdrawal Agreement with the EU to prevent it creating a “blockade” in the Irish Sea and potentially breaking up the United Kingdom in the process.
European Union Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic has claimed that he is “worried” about the anti-establishment Italian coalition government and attacked the populists saying they make “false promises”.
