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Brexit: despatches from the downside – No 19
27/01/2024
This week's Brexit downsides: half a billion in extra costs to import food, the collapse of trade talks with Canada and more.
EU citizens in the UK are "expected to beg, bend their knee and show remorse for not knowing" about post-Brexit visa changes, Euronews was told.
Many European residents felt compelled to seek citizenship, but the Britons that Brexit made are not like the rest.
In this week's update from ‘downside bunker’, more evidence emerges that Britain has effectively declared a trade war on itself.
Brexit: despatches from the downside – No 9
17/11/2023
Your weekly update from the Brexit ‘downside bunker’, chronicling the downsides, and occasional upsides, of Brexit.
After being released from prison, Mr Malkinson said he'd hoped to become a Dutch citizen, but Brexit had made it virtually impossible.
‘My Brexit nightmare in Spain’: The British expats forced to jump through hoops to keep jobs
21/07/2023
Chris Pellow, 64, will get to vote in Spain’s election on Sunday, but says it’s no compensation for the problems caused by the UK’s exit from Europe
There has been an “untold increase” in the number of wealthy Brits paying for golden visas and citizenships in Europe.
The European Court of Justice is to rule on June 15 on a case looking at the legality of the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement and its impact on Britons who lost EU citizenship rights.
In a judgment handed down last Friday, the High Court has cast doubt on the British citizenship status of children born in the United Kingdom before 2 October 2000 to EU citizens who did not at that time possess indefinite leave to remain.
Brexit has left Europe’s Brits isolated
21/01/2023
Underrepresented and alienated, the reality of Britons in Europe post-Brexit is far from appealing.
British citizens living in European nations believe they have had little or no representation since the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, according to a survey by University of Strathclyde researchers.
The number of people who have decided to give up their UK citizenship has increased since the country decided to leave the EU, data obtained by the Independent has shown.
The numbers are currently six times what they were a decade ago - with Brexit making life for Brits abroad increasingly complicated.
There was a 30 per cent rise in people handing over their British passports in 2021.
The Department of Foreign Affairs said it was snowed under with a backlog of more than 30,000 complex foreign birth registrations, many from British citizens looking for Irish passports after Brexit.
Border Communities Against Brexit have roundly condemned the planned move to introduce a new Electronic Authorisation Scheme for non Irish and UK cross border visitors in the new year.
IRISH passport holders in Northern Ireland have increased by two-thirds, according to the latest census.
Four ways Brexit and the loss of free movement have made life harder for mixed British-European families
29/07/2022
Brexit and the end of free movement between the UK and the EU has had notable consequences for family life, particularly for mixed British-European families whether they are living in the UK or Europe.
Mixed Nationalities Families in UK & EU Face Difficulties in Mobility Even After 2 Years of Brexit
27/07/2022
Families with one partner from the United Kingdom and another one from the European countries have revealed they haven’t yet adjusted to new changes coming as a result of Brexit, which marked the UK officially leaving the EU back in 2020.
Brexit is not done for many British-European families, even two and a half years after the UK left the European Union.
The number of British people granted Irish citizenship has soared almost 1,200% since the UK voted to leave the European Union in 2016, the Irish Times said, citing government figures.
Film-maker David Puttnam, who became an Irish citizen last week, says UK is no longer ‘the country I was born into’.
Report released on sixth anniversary of referendum finds ‘significant and mostly negative’ feelings about EU withdrawal. / “I cried. I had to go to work. I felt betrayed, unheard, uncared-for, left to wonder about my life in the UK and what had been the point.”
The Court of Justice of the European Union has confirmed that UK citizens no longer possess EU citizenship after it was asked to rule on the topic by a British woman living in France.