Wednesday, September 16, 2020
President of the European Union's Executive Arm said Wednesday that the United Kingdom cannot unilaterally change the Bilateral Brexit Agreement without Destroying Global Trust in the Country.
EU chief says UK cannot change EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The President of the European Union's Executive Arm said Wednesday that the United Kingdom cannot unilaterally change the Bilateral Brexit Agreement without Destroying Global Trust in the Country.
(1 of 14) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the plenary during her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration.
(2 of 14) In this grab taken from video, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (House of Commons/PA via AP)
(3 of 14) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the plenary during her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration.
(4 of 14) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the plenary during her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration.
(5 of 14) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the plenary during her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration.
(6 of 14) In this handout photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. U.K. lawmakers have criticized the government’s handling of the COVID-19 testing crisis for a second day as opposition leaders say Prime Minister Boris Johnson lacked a cohesive plan to tackle the virus as the country faces a second wave in the pandemic. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)
(7 of 14) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrives at the plenary ahead of her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)
(8 of 14) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the plenary during her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)
(9 of 14) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses the plenary during her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)
(10 of 14) European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrives at the plenary ahead of her first State of the Union speech at the European Parliament in Brussels, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will set out her vision of the future in her first State of the European Union address to the EU legislators. Weakened by the COVID-19 pandemic and the departure of the United Kingdom, she will center her speech on how the bloc should adapt to the challenges of the future, including global warming, the switch to a digital economy and immigration. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)
(11 of 14) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020.
(12 of 14) British Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street in London, to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020.
(13 of 14) In this handout photo provided by UK Parliament, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. U.K. lawmakers have criticized the government’s handling of the COVID-19 testing crisis for a second day as opposition leaders say Prime Minister Boris Johnson lacked a cohesive plan to tackle the virus as the country faces a second wave in the pandemic. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)
(14 of 14) In this handout photo provided by UK Parliament, Shadow First Secretary Angela Rayner, speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons in London, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. U.K. lawmakers have criticized the government’s handling of the COVID-19 testing crisis for a second day as opposition leaders say Prime Minister Boris Johnson lacked a cohesive plan to tackle the virus as the country faces a second wave in the pandemic. (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)
September 16, 2020
Insisting that chances for a future trade deal were slipping away by the day, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told EU lawmakers that plans by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to renege on parts of the U.K.-EU withdrawal agreement dimmed those hopes even further.
What's more, von der Leyen asserted, Britain is throwing its good name to the wind by not respecting a deal it signed in December. “It cannot be unilaterally changed, disregarded,"" she said in her State of the Union address. “This is a matter of law and trust and good faith.”
Von der Leyen drove home the point by quoting from a 1975 speech by former British prime minister and conservative icon Margaret Thatcher. “Britain does not break treaties. It would be bad for Britain, bad for our relations with the rest of the world and bad for any future treaty on trade," von der Leyen quoted Thatcher's speech as saying.
Johnson has called his plan to unilaterally rewrite Britain’s divorce deal with the EU an insurance policy against any unreasonable behavior by the bloc. The prime minister said his proposed law gives the U.K. government the power to override portions of the withdrawal agreement because the EU might “go to extreme and unreasonable lengths” in its treatment of former member Britain.
Under persistent questioning by Labour lawmaker Hilary Benn during a parliamentary committee hearing Wednesday, Johnson was asked whether the EU was “negotiating in good faith.” “I don’t believe they are,″ he said. Johnson added later in the hearing: “It is always possible that I am mistaken, and perhaps they will prove my suspicions wrong.″
Five former British prime ministers have criticized Johnson's willingness to break international law. The government's top law officer for Scotland resigned Wednesday because of concerns about Johnson's legislation.
Johnson later secured support for an amendment meant to assuage the discomfort among members of his Conservative Party. The compromise would allow lawmakers to vote before the government took any actions that broke international law.
Von der Leyen said the EU would always respect the agreements that get its signature and “we will never backtrack on that." The U.K. withdrew from the EU's political institutions on Jan. 31 but remains in a tariff-free transition period until the end of the year while negotiators work out the terms of a future trade relationship.
The European Parliament would need to approve any trade deal, and the leader of the biggest group of the legislature, said that any deal would stand no chance with EU lawmakers if the U.K. disrespected even the slightest paragraph of the Brexit agreement.
“It makes no sense to negotiate a future agreement (with) a British prime minister who is throwing out of the window the agreement that he signed himself," Manfred Weber of the center-right European People's Party said.
Weber warned: “Great Britain, you are losing your credibility at the global level.”......................
Brexit negotiator says UK is unafraid to walk away without Deal.
LONDON (AP) — Britain’s chief Brexit negotiator talked tough ahead of a crucial round of post-Brexit trade talks, saying the U.K. was “not afraid to walk away” if the European Union does not give ground on key issues.
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David Frost told the Mail on Sunday newspaper that Britain wants “to get back the powers to control our borders and that is the most important thing.” Frost and EU negotiator Michel Barnier are due to meet in London on Tuesday for the eighth round of negotiations since Britain left the now 27-nation bloc on Jan. 31.
That political departure will be followed by an economic break when an 11-month transition period ends on Dec. 31 and Britain leaves the EU’s single market and customs union. The two sides are trying to strike a new deal on trade, security and a host of other issues, but talks are deadlocked.
The key sticking points are European boats’ access to U.K. fishing waters and state aid to industries. The EU is determined to ensure a “level playing field” for competition so British firms can’t undercut the bloc’s environmental or workplace standards or pump public money into U.K. industries.
Britain accuses the bloc of making demands that it has not imposed on other countries it has free trade deals with, such as Canada. Frost said Britain was “not going to compromise on the fundamentals of having control over our own laws.”
“We are not going to accept level playing field provisions that lock us in to the way the EU do things,” he said. Both sides have downplayed the chances of a deal, though some of that rhetoric is muscle-flexing before crucial weeks of talks.
Barnier said last week he was “worried and disappointed” by the lack of progress and said the U.K. had not “engaged constructively.” If there is not a deal, tariffs and other obstacles to trade will be imposed from Jan. 1. British freight firms warned last week there could be logjams at ports and supplies of key goods in Britain could be “severely disrupted” if there was no trade deal.
Follow all AP stories about Brexit and British politics at https://apnews.com/Brexit.
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The UK says a fishing deal with the EU and by the end of June looks unlikely.
LONDON (AP) — The U.K.'s chief negotiator with the European Union said Wednesday it's looking increasingly unlikely the two sides will agree — as hoped — on the terms of access to each other’s waters by the end of next month.
(1 of 1) European Commission's Head of Task Force for Relations with the United Kingdom Michel Barnier, right, speaks with the British Prime Minister's Europe adviser David Frost during the start of the first round of post -Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, at EU headquarters in Brussels. Slowed by the coronavirus pandemic and whipped up by a British-imposed deadline, talks between the EU and the UK on a future relationship in the wake of Brexit are struggling to make significant progress. A third negotiation session is drawing to a close on Friday, May 15, 2020 but so far, just over 100 days after the official exit of the UK from the EU, fundamental gaps still exist. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool Photo via AP, File)May 27, 2020
Speaking to lawmakers, David Frost said he is “beginning to think we’re not going to make it by June 30” and that an agreement by that date was an “aspiration." As part of the U.K.'s departure from the EU earlier this year, the two sides said an agreement by the end of June would mean new arrangements could be in place by the start of 2021, when the U.K. formally leaves the EU's economic orbit.
The U.K. left the political institutions of the EU on Jan. 31, but it remains inside the EU's tariff-free single market and customs union until the end of the year. That so-called transition period can be extended two years although a deal to do so has to be made by July 1, according to the legal documents accompanying Brexit.
Frost repeated once again that the U.K. will not request an extension. “I think we have always put a lot of emphasis on economic and political freedom at the end of this year and on avoiding ongoing significant payments into the EU budget," Frost said. “And, of course, those things are accomplished by ending the transition period at the end of the year.”
Frost's comments came as his EU counterpart, Michel Barnier, said the 27-country bloc is “open” to a two-year extension. Three rounds of talks have failed to produce much headway, notably around fishing rights. The U.K. wants a fisheries deal to be a standalone agreement whereby the two sides negotiate access and quotas. The EU, for its part, has sought to link fisheries to other trade issues.
Frost confirmed that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to take part in discussions with EU leaders in June, though no date has been set for the summit. Another round of Brexit talks, conducted via video conferencing, is set to start Monday.
While worries about the coronavirus have dominated over the past couple of months, businesses and financial markets are still fretting about a “no-deal” Brexit that would see tariffs and other impediments imposed on trade. That's an even greater concern in light of the deep economic recessions both sides are facing as a result of the lockdowns governments imposed to curb the spread of the virus.
Follow AP’s full coverage of Brexit and British politics at: https://www.apnews.com/Brexit
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EU-UK deadlock on trade talks goes on with time running out.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union and Britain remained deadlocked Friday in their talks on trade ties after Brexit,with EU negotiator Michel Barnier saying that any chance of a deal seemed to be slipping away.
(1 of 6) European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks during a media conference after Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, in Brussels, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)
(2 of 6) European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, right, and the British Prime Minister's Europe adviser David Frost arrive for Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, in Brussels, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)
(3 of 6) European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks during a media conference after Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, in Brussels, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)
(4 of 6) European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks during a media conference after Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, in Brussels, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)
(5 of 6) European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier speaks during a media conference after Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, in Brussels, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)
(6 of 6) European Union chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier takes off his protective face mask prior to speaking at a media conference after Brexit trade talks between the EU and the UK, in Brussels, Friday, Aug. 21, 2020. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)
August 21, 2020
“Too often this week it felt as if we were going backwards more than forward given the short time left,” he said in a damning assessment of the negotiations. “I simply do not understand why we are wasting valuable time,” he said after the 7th round of talks concluded with little reported progress.
The British side left just as frustrated, saying the EU kept insisting that Britain would have to continue to adhere to EU rules for full free trade even though the nation left the bloc on Jan. 31. “The EU is still insisting not only that we must accept continuity with EU state aid and fisheries policy, but also that this must be agreed before any further substantive work can be done in any other area of the negotiation,” said U.K. negotiator David Frost.
Barnier said the effective deadline for the talks was the end of October to allow for legal vetting and national approvals before any deal comes into force on Jan. 1, 2021, when Britain's transition period from member state to non-EU member ends.
“I am disappointed and worried,” Barnier said. He added that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has yet to live up to his promise to instill a sense of urgency in the talks. The parties disagree on rules for state aid for businesses and on fisheries, with the U.K. opposed to EU demands for long-term access to British waters. Both say they want to avoid a “no deal” scenario that would see tariffs and other restrictions imposed on trade.
Frost was not only criticized by the EU for his negotiating stance, but also from within Britain, as Scotland sided with Barnier. Scotland was one of the U.K.'s nations to vote to remain in the EU during the 2016 referendum, and its continued criticism of London underscores the rift Brexit has left in the nation.
“It is unforgiveable for the U.K. government to be recklessly running down the clock and causing maximum economic uncertainty," said Scotland's External Affairs Secretary Michael Russell. “The U.K. government must start to put jobs before its hard Brexit ideology.”
Britain is seeking a free-trade pact similar to one the EU negotiated with Canada. The EU wants to ensure both sides have similar rules on a wide range of issues, including workers’ rights, the environment and government subsidies, before discussing such an agreement.
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The BREXIT without EU Agreement when implemented, can cause UK an unforeseen Economic Recession, National Disunity and disorientation with the EU, which can push UK into uncontrollable economic Havoc or Malaise & product/service delivery Doom, which are secretly organized Queen led imperialist Conservatives to hot up UK economically and caused Labor Crisis where legally or non legally documented working Migrants, shall have their work/labor employment problem, as their Services/labors shall not be required but they will be retrenched and shall be pushed back to their Countries of Origin.
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Officially, Britain to Return back to its EU Status (Status quo ante),with No EU Negotiation Penalty. But Britain attempted to leave the EU or Disengage from the EU via BREXIT, led to technical UK Governmental/Business Damage of below £2 Billion.
Continuing BREXIT Negotiation/Implementation Program ,led to a full UK Governmental/Business Damage more than £2 Billion Damage Cost., while Britain BREXIT Implementation, led to future British Economic Collapse.
British EX-Foreign Minister Boris Johnson, a Putin Crony/Agent who Sold BREXIT DOOM to the gullible British Prime Minister Theresa May,as UK is a Former quasi EU,which function as EU
UK's Johnson seeks to quell Brexit fears in Northern Ireland
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted Thursday that businesses in Northern Ireland will continue to enjoy seamless access to the rest of the U.K. after a Brexit transition period with the European Union expires at the end of the year.
(1 of 12) Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson arrives at the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service HQ during his visit to Belfast, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (Brian Lawless/PA via AP)
August 13, 2020
“There will be no border down the Irish Sea — over my dead body," he said on a visit to Northern Ireland, where he met the new Irish prime minister, Micheal Martin. Following the U.K.'s departure from the EU at the end of January, the country is in a transition period with the bloc during which it remains part of its economic arrangements, including the tariff-free single market and customs union.
Though discussions about the future economic relationship are still taking place, Northern Ireland has a special status in the talks — deal or no deal. Under the Northern Ireland protocol, negotiated as part of last year's Brexit deal, the region will follow some of the EU’s rules to allow freedom of movement of goods and services across the border with Ireland, which remains part of the EU.
Business leaders in Northern Ireland have expressed concerns that the rules and regulations associated with that requirement will make trading with the rest of the U.K. more expensive, even prohibitive.
The next round of talks about the future relationship are set to commence in Brussels on Aug. 18. Johnson's main negotiator, David Frost, said in a tweet that the U.K. side will go into those talks “in good faith to talk constructively about all the issues," and that an agreement can be reached in September.
Johnson's Irish counterpart, Martin, said both the EU and the U.K. want to avoid another economic shock following the coronavirus pandemic. “I think where there’s a will, there’s a way,” he said. “It seems to me that there is a landing zone if that will be there on both sides and I think it is, on the European Union side and on the British side to find that landing zone."
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State with its different Currency, No North Ireland & Ireland Republic Border and Queen off Table transaction which are not covered by industrial/data Production and factual economic index,as obtainable from Germany,but France is not a complete EU,like UK has so many off Table exploitative Trade/Transactions not covered by Production or direct Trade.there is no Need for BREXIT,as UK usually function as an EU State without BREXIT strict Regulation/Border.
why the UK officially seeking for BREXIT with its Cost and now leaving shall cost the UK, 2 Billion Pounds and establishing BREXIT,shall cause the UK a Doom.
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