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Join our fight against Brexit. Cornwall for Europe is a grassroots movement campaigning for Britain to remain a full member of the European Union, with all the benefits that this has brought for Cornwall and the UK as a whole.
Blame successive UK governments, not the EU, for fact that one Dutch ship has a larger UK quota than entire Cornish fishing fleet, say South East Cornwall Labour group
Council tenders for contract for continued operations of an office in Brussels after Brexit.
Wales and Cornwall hardest hit as UK loses out on £11.4bn in EU regional funding after Brexit
23/01/2019
A 22 per cent rise in support would have been due in the next EU budget.
The Pool firm is considering opening up a new branch in Barcelona rather than the UK if a No Deal Brexit becomes reality.
A Sheffield MP is demanding the Government replaces £605m of EU cash earmarked for South Yorkshire after Brexit.
Exactly what the EU has funded in Cornwall
29/03/2019
As Brexit drags on we look at where all the billions of pounds Cornwall has received from the EU has gone
A British fruit and veg farmer fears his crop will rot in the ground this year because of a shortage of pickers caused by Brexit and coronavirus.
Critical report by Council of Europe calls for more support for Cornish, Irish and Ulster Scots.
Conservative councillors say EU base is ‘waste of taxpayer money’.
Two different programmes since 1999 have brought nearly £800 million to dozens of projects.
Cornish fishermen are concerned about the future of their jobs as shellfish exports to the European Union have stopped since the UK left the EU.
Cornish exporters 'struggling' to get goods like meat and fish into EU since Brexit signing
31/01/2021
Cornwall Chamber of Commerce says some are reporting long delays and even being refused entry
'There won’t be a fishing industry in five years at this rate'
In another example of post-Brexit trade problems, many UK fishermen are now struggling to export their catch to the EU.
Cornish fishers renaming species unpopular with British buyers after Brexit disrupts EU market
09/02/2021
Megrim and spider crab will be rebranded in desperate attempt to boost domestic market.
The moves are reminiscent of other changes to fish names to make them sound more appealing. Patagonian toothfish, for example, was changed to become Chilean seabass in the United States and Canada.
Cornwall’s Varfell Farms doesn’t have enough pickers as Cornish workers don’t last.
Officers from as far afield as Gwent in Wales, Devon and Cornwall and Yorkshire have all been moved to the county to deal with the contingency plans brought in to deal with the change in rules when travelling to EU countries.
Fields of flowers worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are being left to rot in Cornwall.
Businesses have been hit hard by Brexit, according to research by an affiliation on Chambers of Commerce in the region.
In Newlyn, anger at red tape and the falling price of fish looks certain to be felt at council polls.
Time-sensitive seafood exports have been hit hard as the fishing industry struggles to deal with long-winded paperwork and new rules