BREXIT – COLLABORATION AT BREAKINGPOINT
You can be forgiven for wondering why there needs to be a commentary on the post-BREXIT situation and collaboration when it seems obvious that collaboration is exactly what is not wanted.
EU and UK keep a door open for cross border provision of Financial Services with new MoU
The Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement left out rules for the future of a very crucial business area for both the UK and the EU: financial services. Literally since the Brexit referendum of 23 June 2016 banks and financial services providers, regulators and supervisors both in UK and in the EU started to figure out…
With globalisation under pressure, the EU single market is an anchor of stability
“I can’t work out what’s stopped the UK up to now from being ‘Global Britain’ except its own lack of competitiveness,” Michel Barnier writes in the book he just published about his more than four years as the EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit. “Germany is ‘Global Germany’ while being solidly inside the EU and the…
Not just teething problems: new UK-EU trade barriers are here to stay
Businesses now need to focus on adapting in the most efficient way 1st of January 2021 – the beginning of the “new normal” in UK-EU trade relations On 24th December 2020 the UK and the European Union agreed on a new trade relationship – the so-called Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The Agreement came into force…
Brexit: Is the outcome better than no agreement?
2021 dawned, and, four and a half years after the EU Referendum vote, the UK has finally left the EU in practice, as opposed to in theory in January 2020. The transition phase has ended and EU law no longer applies in principle to the UK or UK citizens. Only it was not really a…