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Daniel Boffey and Jennifer Rankin in Brussels
Fri 20 Sep 2019 11.08 EDT
... The row has been sparked by a British demand that the EUs negotiating team treat a long-awaited cache of documents outlining the UKs latest ideas as Her Majestys government property.
Whitehall told the European commission team that the three confidential papers should not be distributed to Brexit delegates representing the EUs 27 other member states.
Sources in Brussels said that in response the point was being made forcefully to the British negotiating team that all proposals would need to be made available for the EUs capitals to analyse for talks to progress ...
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/20/fresh-brexit-talks-row-uk-eu-proposals-secret
struggle4progress
(118,212 posts)Adam Payne 47m
Ireland's deputy prime minister has warned that Brexit could lead to "civil unrest" on the border with Northern Ireland as he poured cold water on suggestions that the European Union and United Kingdom were close to agreeing a new deal.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4 on Friday morning, Tánaiste Simon Coveney said there was still a "wide gap" between the UK and EU in negotiations.
Talks have stalled over Prime Minister Boris Johnson's insistence that the EU must scrap the controversial Northern Ireland backstop element of the existing deal.
The backstop is the insurance policy which would keep the UK tied to EU trade rules after Brexit if no alternatives are agreed in time, in order to prevent a hard border on the island of Ireland ...
https://www.businessinsider.com/ireland-warns-civil-unrest-uk-border-brexit-deal-hopes-fade-2019-9
struggle4progress
(118,212 posts)Sep 19th 2019 | BOURNEMOUTH
The liberal democrats do not like Brexit. To clear up any lingering doubts about this, at their conference in Bournemouth a batch of their freshly elected meps strode on stage wearing stop brexit t-shirts. Elsewhere, activists wearing blue berets spangled with eu stars wandered around hawking Bollocks to Brexit stickers. For those who had still not got the message, Jo Swinson, the partys leader, unveiled a new policy: if the Lib Dems win the next election, they will revoke Britains Article 50 request to leave the eu on day one.
While Labour has wobbled on Brexit, the Lib Dems have dug in as the party of Remain. Their previous policy was to support a second referendum, which they have called for consistently since the first one, in 2016. The party says it will still back a second referendum if, as is almost inevitable, it fails to win a majority ...
https://www.economist.com/britain/2019/09/19/the-liberal-democrats-bet-on-a-vow-to-overturn-the-brexit-referendum
struggle4progress
(118,212 posts)If the U.K. has no deal in place with the EU, it will be forced to rely on hastily signed trade agreements with partners outside the single market, such as the United States.
By Nicolas Rapp and Daniel Bentley
September 20, 2019
https://fortune.com/longform/brexit-no-deal-hard-soft-winners-losers-trade-deals-uk-us-eu/
Wounded Bear
(58,584 posts)OnDoutside
(19,945 posts)That was always the answer but the Tories are no longer dependent on the DUP.