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5 Brexit fights still brewing
28/04/2021
As the EU finally ratifies the Brexit trade deal, attention shifts to some major loose ends.
The US president is expected to tell Johnson to solve the Northern Ireland impasse in a pre-G7 meeting, reports suggest.
Brexit is a ‘living animal’ and may never be complete, says EU envoy Joao Vale de Almeida
23/06/2021
Brexit is a “living animal” that may never be entirely over, the first EU ambassador to London warns today.
"Rewarding Britain for its threats is simply inconceivable. Brexit means Brexit, it’s a self-inflicted wound.”
Row over status of João Vale de Almeida has 'chilled' relationship between London and Brussels.
The EU has gone to the limits of what it can do to resolve the problems of post-Brexit trade in Northern Ireland, the bloc’s ambassador to the UK has said.
Nicholas Walton gives up leadership of €2.8m pan-European research after dispute over Northern Ireland protocol.
Commission president draws attention to less well-known area where two sides are at odds.
The EU has again criticised the UK's decision not to give the EU ambassador to London full diplomatic status.
The EU’s ambassador to the UK has accused new DUP leader Edwin Poots of making comments about the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol that lack “adherence to reality”.
The Northern Ireland protocol is “the solution” to “the problems created by Brexit,” João Vale de Almeida, the EU’s senior representative to the U.K., told The Guardian on Tuesday.
Bloc's ambassador to Britain says nobody advocates following Britain out of the EU.
The EU has gone the extra mile by offering a fix to the row about trade in Northern Ireland, a senior EU official has said.
The European Union’s envoy to the UK Joao Vale de Almeida has said this Tuesday that the Northern Ireland protocol negotiated between Britain and the EU in December is the solution to paving a way to allow for the free movement of goods between the two jurisdictions, and not the problem.
Joao Vale de Almeida, the bloc’s ambassador to the UK, said it is unhelpful to ‘keep agitating the issue’ of triggering Article 16.
Bloc’s first UK ambassador says right to remain for many vulnerable Europeans must be protected.
Brussels has warned Britain not to break their post-Brexit trade deal by slashing regulation in its new drive for economic growth.
João Vale de Almeida’s main task will be ensuring Britain sticks to withdrawal agreement.
Event delayed after UK refuses to grant EU ambassador same privileges as other diplomats.
Foreign affairs chief raises concerns over UK refusal to grant EU mission full diplomatic status.
Brexiteer Steve Baker, who is now a Northern Ireland Minister, has apologised for his 'ferocious' stance on negotiations with the EU.
Joe Biden is set to raise pressure on Boris Johnson to not go back on the post-Brexit Northern Ireland treaty before the pair attend the G7 summit later this week in Cornwall.
Ministers spark diplomatic war with Brussels after downgrading diplomatic status of EU ambassador
21/01/2021
Three weeks after post-Brexit trade deal comes into force, Boris Johnson accused of being ‘simply petty’,
The government has been criticised for downgrading the diplomatic status of the EU's ambassador in London.
A diplomatic row has broken out between the UK and EU over the status of the bloc's ambassador in London.
Dominic Raab says he wants to turn page on Brexit saga and treat EU with respect it deserves.
Foreign Office says EU should not be treated as nation state, despite 142 countries granting bloc this status.
Boris Johnson warned against ‘protectionism’ and violation of WTO rules.
Britain is pressing on with a plan to rip up parts of the post-Brexit trade deal it signed with the European Union.
The European Union (EU) has confirmed it is holding back the UK’s access to the £81bn ‘Horizon Europe’ programme as a response to Boris Johnson’s plans to tear up the Northern Ireland protocol.
The EU's ambassador to the U.K. on Sunday conceded there was little trust between the two sides ahead of a meeting this week to discuss contentious trade barriers with Northern Ireland.
The EU’s ambassador to the UK Joao Vale de Almeida urged against taking unilateral action to rewrite the Northern Ireland Protocol.
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