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The Brexit trade deal was implemented on January 1, but has not resulted in an end to tensions over fishing rights. The EU s restrictions on UK exports of shellfish have led to fury in the UK, and it was reported last month that the UK was considering retaliatory action. The Sunday Telegraph reported the Government was considering ending a series of post-Brexit continuity agreements it has with Brussels, which could restrict imports of European mineral water and seed potatoes.
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Record numbers of EU citizens have been granted the right to stay in the UK after Brexit, with London remaining the most popular place to live. As much as 17 percent of London s population is now made up of Europeans, with 1.6 million calling the British capital their home. In total, there are now 4.6 million EU nationals living and working in the UK, which is 1.5 million more than before Brexit, according to The Times.
BORIS JOHNSON S £110million scheme to replace the EU s Erasmus educational exchange programme was officially launched today with schools, colleges and universities being encouraged to apply for funding to allow students to study and work abroad.
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The Irish fishing industry stands to lose stocks worth an estimated £37million-a-year by 2026 due to a 15 percent reduction in fish quotas as a result of the Brexit deal. Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine since September 2020, Charlie McConalogue, warned the effects of the Brexit deal are immediate, with 60 percent of those reductions to take effect from April . Sean O’Donoghue, chief executive of Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation, said the Irish fishing in
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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