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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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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
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The Brexit trade deal, implemented on January 1, has not ended the tensions between the UK and the EU over exports and imports. As both parties continue to adjust to the new relationship, the economic impact is being felt in Germany. Joachim Lang of the BDI, the main association of German industry, said in February that “supply-chain problems are hitting German companies very hard”.
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The UK and EU member states are still adjusting to the new London-Brussels relationship after the Brexit trade deal came into force. This has been seen in Germany, as exports from the country to the UK fell by almost a third in the first month under post-Brexit trading arrangements, new figures revealed. Germany’s official statistics body said the end of the Brexit transition period was responsible for a 30 percent year-on-year plunge in exports to the UK in January but econo