European Parliament To Wave Through Brexit Trade Deal By Alex PIGMAN
04/26/21 AT 10:54 PM
The European Parliament will vote to ratify the EU trade deal with Britain Tuesday, turning the page on a difficult Brexit chapter but with little hope of smoothing relations with London.
The 705-member Brussels chamber is expected to overwhelmingly back the bare bones trade deal that was sealed last Christmas Eve after nine months of bad tempered negotiation.
The zero-tariffs, zero-quotas arrangement has been provisionally applied since January 1 when an eleven-month post-Brexit transition period ended. The European Parliament delayed its vote in part to protest unilateral delays by London in implementing customs checks in Northern Ireland Photo: AFP / Paul Faith
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