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New EU trade regulations will cause further pain for the UK. Starmer’s talk of breaking down barriers must be more than warm words, says Gua

"From Thursday, general product safety regulations (GPSR) will apply to a huge new range of products...Exporters will need an agent within the EU or Northern Ireland, costing at least €150 an item a year...The Office for National Statistics says Brexit cost the UK £1m an hour in 2022. The Office for Budget Responsibility estimates Brexit will cause UK trade to fall by 15%. Replicating EU regulators, as for medicines and chemicals, is expensive." Even now, years later, new economic consequences continue to add up.

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"Everybody will have to pay a price – EU and UK – because there is no added value to Brexit. Brexit is a negative negotiation. It is a lose-lose game for everybody."

-Michel Barnier

As we move into the fall, the shortage of drivers in the U.K. continues to fuel instablity for the future. Brexit created a very hostile environment for foreign workers, and though the U.K. government now wants to find ways to lure drivers back, it is hard to imagine why they would want to come. Trust has been broken, and as was always present during the Brexit negotiations, the EU is much larger than the U.K., and offers plenty of opportunities elsewhere.

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Associations representing lorry drivers in Poland and Hungary say their members are not interested in UK offer of short-term visas for work

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The food shortages being reported by a growing number of household names are likely to last forever, a leading industry figure has said in a

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"After the U.K.-EU trade deal scraped over the line on Christmas Eve, attention shifted to how exactly it will work in practice. Some businesses argue the disruption and costs triggered by the deal’s non-tariff barriers have already laid bare the shortcomings."

"...According to Spisak, anyone trying to get their head around how the deal will be managed needs to realize the U.K. and EU have signed three co-dependent deals rather than just one. “This is a multilayered relationship with three different layers of governance,” he said.

These three bureaucratic buckets include the international structures laid out in the Withdrawal Agreement, which set out the terms of Britain’s EU departure and was finalized in 2019. Then there are the bodies needed to operate the Northern Irish Protocol, designed to protect the Good Friday peace agreement. And then there’s the Christmas Eve deal itself, the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) — which has its own complex governance needs."

A slew of new committees are needed as the Brexit war becomes a battle for the peace.

A historic deal has been made:

A few quotes to sum up the past few days (and over four years) of Brexit negotiations, and the 2000 page agreement:

“I know this is a difficult day for some and to our friends in the United Kingdom, I want to say parting is such sweet sorrow but, to use the line from TS Eliot, what we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is often a beginning. So, to all Europeans, I think it is time to leave Brexit behind.”

-European commission president, Ursula von der Leyen

"Before the spin starts, it's worth remembering that Brexit is happening against Scotland's will. And there is no deal that will ever make up for what Brexit takes away from us. It's time to chart our own future, as an independent European nation."

-First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon

"The clock is no longer ticking. After 4.5 years of collective effort and EU unity. To preserve peace on the island of Ireland. To protect citizens and the single market. To build a new partnership with the UK."

-EU head negotiator, Michel Barnier

"The European Commission has today sent the United Kingdom a letter of formal notice for breaching its obligations under the Withdrawal Agreement. This marks the beginning of a formal infringement process against the United Kingdom. It has one month to reply to today's letter."

“We sent today to the United Kingdom a letter of formal notice for breaching its obligations under the Withdrawal Agreement. This marks the

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The time has all but run out on the transition period, and somehow the situation with the Brexit negotiations looks exactly the same. The UK thinks it can back out of legal agreements and push deadlines to the limit, assuming this will lead to a breakthrough, even though making progress requires a ton of work on very detailed and complicated issues. More specifically, the UK still refuses to accept the problem of the Irish Border, even after signing a legal agreement about it, and progress on every other aspect of the exit seems impossible as the UK still wants the benefits of membership without following EU rules.

Nothing changes. The UK thinks it is playing hardball, yet it never really had any strong cards to play. No deal is still possible. The EU has never wanted this outcome, but may start to care less as bigger and more important issues threaten to take over from all sides. As lead negotiator Michel Barnier keeps reminding, the transition period ends in December, though an agreement needs to be reached for procedural reasons by October. It is hard to fathom any sort of breakthrough with the UK's current government. With Brexit, it seems it's deja vu on repeat...

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The language menu of an ATM on the European continent.

It’s Brexit Day...but what does that actually mean?

Coins have been minted in the U.K., and the Union Jack flag no longer flies in Brussels, but an actual determination of the future relationship between the U.K. and EU remains far from clear.

Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland have already shown their opposition to Johnson’s Plan, so the chance of a further fragmented U.K. seems to grow stronger.

In the coming months, Johnson’s government will have to try and live up to the promises of Brexit. The challenge is vast, and as always, time is short...

Nonetheless, it is official now, the U.K. is out.

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The UK finally managed to pass a Brexit bill through parliament. With a recently won majority, the PM had the votes he needed to get the Withdrawal Agreement passed. This means the UK will leave the EU.

Does this mean Brexit is done? Sadly, far from it. The withdrawal agreement represents only the beginning, the details for how the trade deal will actually look have not been determined. A transition period of 11 months comes next, but time seems short, considering the snail’s pace of negotiations thus far. And now both sides cannot rely on kicking the can or loose language.

In Scotland, a decisive victory for the SNP has their First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set to push full steam for another independence referendum, though it could take a legal fight with Johnson’s government to get there. A chapter in the Brexit saga has ended, but as always, much uncertainty remains.

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EU president warns of time running out in the expected 11 months available to strike deal

First minister tells Boris Johnson she has renewed mandate after winning 47 of Scotland’s 59 seats

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“To my British friends, The EU27 has formally adopted the extension. It may be the last one. Please make the best use of this time. I al

“To my British friends,

The EU27 has formally adopted the extension. It may be the last one. Please make the best use of this time.

I also want to say goodbye to you as my mission here is coming to an end. I will keep my fingers crossed for you.”

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