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'Stop Brexit': Boris Johnson barracked by protesters as EU says he has done nothing to achieve a new deal
16/09/2019
'It is the UK's responsibility to come forward with legally operational solutions' but 'such proposals have not yet been made' Brussels warns.
EU sources say PM seemed taken aback when shown implications of his Brexit plan.
Boris Johnson to meet Juncker face to face as Varadkar says Brexit offering 'falls well short' of what is needed
13/09/2019
Luxembourg talks are not expected to deliver a breakthrough as the clock ticks down to 31 October.
The European Union is "open but not convinced" by the UK PM's new proposals for a Brexit deal with the EU, the president of the European Council says.
Brexit backstop has not been rewritten or 'undermined' by new agreement, says Ireland PM Varadkar
12/03/2019
'It does not reopen the withdrawal agreement or undermine the backstop or its application' says Leo Varadkar
MPs set for Saturday vote on Boris Johnson's agreement.
German chancellor tells EU leaders UK should be offered extension if it is requested.
Sources from both sides confirm that no further negotiations are scheduled.
The Brexit Party leader seems to back the Benn Act after Jean-Claude Juncker suggested there would be no extension to the leaving date.
Documents don't change Withdrawal Agreement
12/03/2019
Here is a quick analysis of the three documents agreed last night between Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker.
The EU and South American economic bloc Mercosur have clinched a huge trade deal after 20 years of negotiations.
Ireland’s Leo Varadkar says PM’s pledge of no hard border contradicts written proposal.
Jean-Claude Juncker was speaking in Brussels after a meeting with the 27 presidents and prime ministers of the remaining EU countries.
PM’s upbeat account dismissed as Jean-Claude Juncker warns time is running out.
European Commission president says ‘bulls***’ was responsible for Brexit.
EU president Juncker tells Tory leadership candidates there will be no Brexit renegotiation: 'I was crystal clear'
28/05/2019
Several Tory contenders have said they want to renegotiate the deal. / The EU has once again ruled out renegotiating Theresa May’s Brexit deal, in a major blow to several Conservative leadership candidates who have insisted that they would re-open talks if elected.
The European Commission has again reiterated that the Brexit withdrawal agreement will not be negotiated, “full stop” – despite claims by Boris Johnson that he would somehow be able to reopen talks.
The European Commission said on Monday that the EU was ready for a no-deal Brexit and that Britain would suffer most under such a scenario.
Juncker, Barnier and Verhofstadt again say there will be no change on backstop.
Lord Frost told the Conservative conference that the ‘long bad dream’ of our EU membership is over but his is just beginning.
On Monday morning Martin Selmayr, the secretary general of the European Commission, was in mid-flow briefing EU ambassadors on how efforts over the weekend to get legally binding assurances on the Irish backstop had ground to a halt.
The challenge posed by Britain leaving the EU gave the European Commission an opportunity to embed its values and its members’ interests.
How the UK lost the Brexit battle
27/04/2019
The course of Brexit was set in the hours and days after the 2016 referendum. / It was at 6:22 a.m. on June 24, 2016 — 59 minutes before the official tally was unveiled — that the European Council sent its first “lines to take” to the national governments that make up the EU.
The European Commission head does not know whether Boris Johnson plans to obey the law and ask for an extension, if no deal is agreed.
Jean-Claude Juncker says it was a 'mistake' for EU to stay silent during Brexit referendum 'lies'
07/05/2019
The president of the EU commission has said he regrets not intervening in the UK’s Brexit referendum to correct “lies” about the bloc during the campaign.
Boris Johnson agreed in the final hours of the Northern Ireland Protocol negotiations that there would be customs declarations on goods exiting Northern Ireland to Britain, despite the fact that just three weeks later he told businesses in the North there would be "no forms, no checks, no barriers of any kind…," according to a detailed new account of the protocol negotiations.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has skipped a planned news conference with Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel after he met European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to discuss Brexit.
Johnson to override EU withdrawal agreement
06/09/2020
Move threatens to collapse talks that PM has said must be completed within weeks.
Deputy Frans Timmermans accuses Tory Brexiters of a ‘cavalier’ approach to peace. / Jean-Claude Juncker has told Theresa May in a private phone call that shifting her red lines in favour of a permanent customs union is the price she will need to pay for the EU revising the Irish backstop.
European commission chief says he regrets not getting involved in 2016 campaign.
Huge constitutional clash looms if Tory rebels join bid to spike guns of a new Tory leader. / Boris Johnson’s vow to deliver a no-deal Brexit is facing a major cross-party ambush after Labour moved to give parliament new control over the process.
Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has held talks with European leaders as part of a visit to Brussels.
No-deal Brexit: Government accused of playing ‘blame game’ as Gove says EU refusing to negotiate
06/08/2019
The Government has been accused of trying to play the “blame game” over a no-deal Brexit, as Michael Gove claimed that the EU was refusing to negotiate with Britain.
Economic hardship and war have not pushed Europe’s nations apart, but closer together.
EU leaders have agreed on a plan to delay the Article 50 process, postponing Brexit beyond 29 March. European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker updated reporters at a press conference which had some lighter moments.
British voters were not fully informed on the implications of Brexit during the referendum in 2016, a European Parliament report has concluded.
Theresa May will not get her Brexit deal through the Commons, Donald Tusk has warned, leaving the UK with the option of “a chaotic Brexit” or an extension of its membership of the EU beyond 29 March.
Business group warns that companies are getting ready to shift operations abroad.
Brussels chief criticises MPs for prioritising May’s removal above finding agreement. / Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested that the UK is drifting towards another Brexit extension in October as he criticised MPs for prioritising the prime minister’s removal over finding agreement on a Brexit deal.
German minister wins narrow backing of MEPs to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker
Theresa May returns to parliament today after a last ditch dash to Strasbourg to win fresh concessions on her deal. So will the deadlock finally be broken this week? Daniel Boffey in Brussels and Sonia Sodha in London explain how the process could now pan out.
Former European Commission president says then-PM asked him not to intervene in referendum debate.
May’s last-gasp dash to Strasbourg, the midnight press conference with Juncker... EU officials and politicians looked on with growing incredulity.
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