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Brexit Britain’s chance to strut its global stuff
The UK’s attempt to position itself as some kind of honest broker is no joke
World Economy News
19 Jan 2021 • 7 min read
Hello from Brussels. Two days to go until Joe Biden’s inauguration, and people here are assuming that surely even Donald Trump’s administration doesn’t have much time left to do destructive things on trade.
Last week, outgoing US trade representative Robert Lighthizer topped up the toxins in the transatlantic dispute chalice before handing it on, his department declaring Austria, Spain and the UK to be discriminating against the US with digital services taxes. Along with its similar previous finding against France, and the deferral of the decision to put tariffs on French goods, he’s created a tricky legacy for the Biden administration, as we explained last week. (Trump also took one fin
PostBrexit strategy poses great challenges for the UK to redefine its internal and external policies besides handling the worsening pandemic situation calls for pragmatism in a large dose
What UK Needs to Stay Relevant on Global Stage?
Post-Brexit strategy poses great challenges for the UK; to redefine its internal and external policies besides handling the worsening pandemic situation calls for pragmatism in a large dose
Monday January 18, 2021 11:31 AM, Asad Mirza, IANS
[Image tweeted by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson.]
Now that the UK has left the European Union (EU) and has lost the shelter of the bloc s single market and customs union at a time of heightened global risk due to Covid-19, an analysis of what it has lost and what it has gained has started in earnest. In the backdrop of increased delays at borders on both sides, goods reaching late, shop shelves getting empty, the Britons indeed have to take a long hard look at what they have achieved post-Brexit.
Britain’s foreign-policy debate is back
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Secretary of State for Scotland Alister Jack return to 10 Downing Street after a cabinet meeting at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in London, Britain December 15, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville
Though the world, cut off behind travel bans, has perhaps never felt further away for millions of Britons, one thing has changed in Whitehall over the course of this COVID-blighted winter: It can no longer be said that the only foreign-policy debate in the United Kingdom is about Brexit. With the launch this week of a major new report by the British think tank Chatham House, titled “Global Britain, Global Broker,” there are now two distinct visions emerging of Britain’s role in the world: one positioned in the political center and the other on the right.