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.
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For months now, Britain has been strangely subdued, if not borderline submissive, in its dealings with Brussels. The provocations from Ursula von der Leyen and the French have been especially egregious, and yet No 10 has refused to take the bait, to the bafflement of many of its supporters.
There was the outrageous threat by Brussels to confiscate contracted vaccine shipments to the UK, the despicable, counterproductive demonisation of AstraZeneca, the ban on the exports of shellfish, the threats to disrupt the City and, of course, the intransigent, tone-deaf approach to Northern Ireland. Frustratingly, the Government’s only real action to date has been to unilaterally extend grace periods on Irish Sea border checks, a palliative move insufficient to avoid a full-scale crisis in the province.
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On Wednesday, the weekly Cabinet meeting convened in a downbeat mood after 48 hours of chaos and setback in relation to the country’s vaccine rollout programme.
The decision of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee to advise not to give the AstraZeneca vaccine to anyone other than the 60-69 age group combined with the news that the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was being paused was a double hammer blow.
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