Switzerland s push to persuade Britain to join EFTA before Brexit pact Martina Bet
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Since January 1 this year, the UK is no longer a member of the EU single market and customs union. The EU s four freedoms - the free movement of goods, services, capital, and people - no longer apply to the UK. In the UK, Remainers appear to have moved on - because as of yet nobody has started planning a route back to full EU membership.
However, Alistair Carmichael, the Lib Dem MP for Orkney and Shetland, recently said Britain should join EFTA, the organisation with access to the EU s single market but without membership of the bloc, as soon as possible.
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The UK is entering a new chapter outside of the EU after tense trade talks with Brussels last year. The Brexit deal is still a contentious issue however, as the EU last week rejected the Government s calls to redraw the Brexit deal s Northern Ireland protocol. European Commission s Vice-President, Marcos Sefcovic, said there have been teething problems over the implementation of the protocol in a letter to Cabinet Minister Michael Gove, but added that it was now our mutually agreed legal obligation .
Switzerland is also enduring its own political dispute with Brussels as the two parties negotiate an institutional framework agreement.
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