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Despite the UK s departure from the EU being confirmed in 2020 and fully implemented at the start of this year, there are still some hoping the country will one day rejoin the bloc. Foreign policy expert, Nick Hopkinson, laid out a route back into the bloc for the UK just tens days after the Brexit trade deal was implemented on January 1. He argued in his column for the New European magazine that Prime Minister Boris Johnson has shown during the pandemic that the politicians
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The Brexit trade deal, implemented on January 1, has not ended the tensions between the UK and the EU over exports and imports. As both parties continue to adjust to the new relationship, the economic impact is being felt in Germany. Joachim Lang of the BDI, the main association of German industry, said in February that “supply-chain problems are hitting German companies very hard”.
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Brexit tensions between France and the UK have persisted since the 2016 referendum, and haven t waned despite a trade deal being reached between Brussels and London. When the deal was eventually secured, the French President Emmanuel Macron claimed Brexit was built on lies . He said: “The United Kingdom remains our neighbour, but also our friend and ally. “This choice to leave Europe, this Brexit, was the child of the European malaise and of many lies and false promises.
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The UK and EU member states are still adjusting to the new London-Brussels relationship after the Brexit trade deal came into force. This has been seen in Germany, as exports from the country to the UK fell by almost a third in the first month under post-Brexit trading arrangements, new figures revealed. Germany’s official statistics body said the end of the Brexit transition period was responsible for a 30 percent year-on-year plunge in exports to the UK in January but econo
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The Chancellor unveiled a wide range of policies in today s Budget announcement to try to spark economic recovery following the impact of the Covid pandemic. Mr Sunak s announcement included details of the eight freeports in England. The English sites were confirmed as East Midlands Airport, Felixstowe and Harwich, Humber, Liverpool City, Plymouth, Solent, Thames and Teesside. The Chancellor said he is also in discussion with the other UK governments about locations in Scotland, Wales and Northe