The European Union has promised legal action after the British government unilaterally extended a grace period for checks on food imports to Northern Ireland, a move that Brussels said breached the terms of London’s EU divorce deal.
With negotiations between the UK and the European Union (EU) - over a trade agreement - going down to the wire, the possibility of there being no deal is being talked about.
Why do so many people talk about a 'hard Brexit' and a 'soft Brexit'? And what do they mean?
What happens if we have no deal?
15/10/2020
Mr Johnson told his cabinet this week that leaving the EU without a deal should hold “no fear” for Britain, but was he right?
'It is hard to predict how full Brexit would play out, because this scale of multiple simultaneous renegotiations of global trade agreements is unprecedented – and no country has ever left the EU. It certainly can’t be assumed that Britain is bound to get quick and good deals because it is a large economy.'
If not, and the vote is to exit, it will be no good saying afterwards that “we didn’t understand what we were voting for” – the repeated complaint made by eurosceptics about the 1975 Referendum. By then it will be too late.
The Stop Live Transport International Awareness Day is planned for tomorrow. KEITH TAYLOR MEP examines whether Brexit and the withdrawal from the European Union will make it more likely that live animal exports will be stopped...
The aim of this briefing is to describe what happens under WTO rules if there is ‘no deal’.
Theresa May's Brexit deal has been defeated by MPs and the UK is creeping closer to leaving the EU without a deal. But how does a no-deal Brexit actually affect you?
Politicians have been bickering about Brexit for the past two years, but everything that has happened so far is just figuring out how we leave the EU - we still have to sort out what kind of relationship we have once we have actually left.
Brexiteers have been advocating this route, believing it represents the purest Brexit and would be best for Britain. But what are the WTO terms and are Brexiteers right to promise a better future for the UK under these rules? How will WTO rules affect the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit?
Donald Tusk has warned a no-deal Brexit is‘more likely than ever.’ But if it happens it could be chaotic.
What Leaving On WTO Terms Will Mean - Q&A
26/09/2018
The Q&A session taken from the Brexit, What leaving on WTO terms will mean, held in Trowbridge on the 26/9/2018 in front of an audience of 180.
I'm a former trade negotiator at the WTO and other places for Australia. Explaining trade accessibly is my only party trick.