MEPs give green light to EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
The ratification of the deal, which sets out the future relationship between the EU and the UK, is the final legal hurdle in the long-running Brexit saga.
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28 Apr 2021
MEPs, by law, have the right to sign off the deal and, on Tuesday night, Parliament finally got a chance to vote on the agreement thrashed out after protracted EU-UK trade talks that followed the 2016 Referendum.
The results, announced on Wednesday morning, showed that an overwhelming majority, 660, of MEPs voted in favour of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA), with just five deputies voting against. There were 32 abstentions.