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#Brexit stands as a cautionary tale to the people of Europe. We must never take peace and prosperity for granted. Value it, fight for it and defend it every day.
'Another mad day in Brexitland': How Europe's press reported on Boris Johnson's humiliation in parliament
04/09/2019
‘In defeat, some people become quiet and humble, but Boris Johnson is not known to be such a person’
'Anyone thinking UK and Johnson didn't sell out to Australia should watch these Australian TV presenters laughing out loud about it'
02/06/2023
"Name 1 good export from the UK !" / "It's hard. Black pudding? Spice Girl CDs? It's more about what we can now sell to them."
PM dug into a corner by refusing to compromise on sovereignty but EU reached ‘pain threshold’
Prime minister’s offer of votes on rejecting no deal and extending article 50 gets frosty reception.
From flag-waving enthusiasm to anger in Scotland, newspapers tell a wide-ranging story about a historic moment for Britain.
50 days on: Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal
23/02/2021
Saturday 20 February was the 50th day since Boris Johnson’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into effect. Anyone expecting it to settle all questions, or even most of the details, of how we will do business with the EU from now on will be mightily disappointed.
Rapt observers around the globe are confused, amused and saddened by a crisis that has torn Britain’s reputation for stability to shreds.
If you don't laugh, you'll cry. The anchors on Channel 9 news have been having a good giggle at Brexit this week.
BBC editor ordered news chief not to interrogate Vote Leave’s £350 million Brexit bus campaign
11/05/2023
Sir Robbie Gibb said the inflated £350 million figure "was not a lie at all", adding that it is "just campaigning".
BBC Scotland has broken its silence as the questions around its policy of reporting on Brexit mount. / The broadcaster has come under fire in recent days after it aired an interview with the president of the National Farmers Union (NFU) Scotland, Martin Kennedy.
John Sweeney, a BBC investigative reporter, has turned whistleblower and filed a complaint against the corporation with Ofcom, the broadcasting watchdog.
Brexit and lessons for the Indian media
04/04/2019
The Brexit vote was driven by false propaganda. Indian media is just as tendentious, with a rabble rousing social media to boot.
A local newspaper has blamed a combination of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic for its decision to cease print publication.
Brexit brings huge channel licence migration
17/06/2021
MAVISE notes that between Brexit and the transposition of the revised AVMSD, the supply of audiovisual services has been experiencing a lot of commotion. In a quest to secure continuity in their distribution outside the UK traditionally UK-originating channels have been relocating over the past two years.
Brexit has cost the British film and TV industry millions in lost investment from EU-funded arts schemes
05/07/2023
Britain is at risk of becoming a shrinking force in the land of film and TV due to the devastating double whammy of the global pandemic and Brexit.
However, there is another threat to music in Britain, and it’s not the virus. It is the government. One music campaigner put it to me: “The British government has given the creative industries of the United Kingdom a No Deal Brexit. It is simply killing us.”
Half of the channels available in Europe outside their country of origin (as defined by the European regulations) fell under UK jurisdiction in 2018, as opposed to only 10 per cent at the end of 2020.
The UK market is strengthening but that's despite the uncertainty and loss of access to the EU single market that followed Brexit, according to industry sources.
The UK’s decision to separate from the European Union continues to reverberate and is overwhelmingly negative, according to the latest review of the country’s pro-AV market in the May print edition of AV Magazine.
'How much would it cost to run a full page advert in The Express that just has a montage of all their old inaccurate stories?', wrote one Twitter user.
It’s chilling. From the Mail, The Times to the BBC and ITN, everyone is peddling Downing Street’s lies and smears. They’re turning their readers into dupes.
Brussels confronts ‘EU budget myths’
07/07/2011
Just days before unveiling long-awaited proposals for the EU's budget until 2020, the European Commission has published a collection of facts on how Europe is financed, in a move apparently aimed at countering stereotypes conveyed by the Eurosceptic British press that it is over-sized and unaccountable.
The company first began operations in Belgium in 2021 due to what it calls the "challenges of Brexit" around shipping equipment to EU countries.
Comments made by the Sir Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the US, on the Trump administration have been leaked to pro-Brexit journalist Isabel Oakshott, with key Brexiteers exploiting them to attack the civil service and diplomatic corps and call for the removal of non-Brexit-supporting civil servants.
The media reaction to the Tusk-Cameron document is lazy – mendacious even. The prime minister has wrung real concessions from Brussels.
Eighth Report of Session 2017–19
Emily Maitlis Claims BBC's 'Both-Sideism' Over Brexit Led To 'Superficial Balance' [1 min]
25/08/2022
Ex-BBC journalist also argued the media failing to tackle the impact of leaving the EU “feels like a conspiracy against the British people”. / Emily Maitlis has criticised the BBC for “both-sideism” in its coverage of Brexit – suggesting its attempts to hear both sides of the argument led to “superficial balance”.
Recalling Newsnight's coverage, Maitlis said: "It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn't."
Emily Maitlis has been widely praised for her criticism of the BBC's coverage of Brexit. / “It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it," she said. “But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn’t.”
Document suggests UK shows should no longer be classified as European because of Brexit.
SCOTLAND was big news across Europe. Major media outlets from Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and other EU countries headlined with comments by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and the latest opinion poll which confirmed growing majority support for Scottish independence.
For some weeks the British government has been planning a “shock and awe” campaign to warn British businesses that they have less than six months to prepare for Brexit; but the EU has beaten them to it.
Observers suggest PM’s failure could spell end of ‘wishful thinking’ of a sovereign Britain going its own way. / Six years on from the Brexit referendum, continental observers have become used to Westminster meltdowns – but many see in the latest cataclysm the inevitable finale of a project that was always divorced from reality.
The European Union has plans to reduce the number of British TV shows and film broadcast by TV stations in Europe as an after-effect of Brexit, the Guardian has revealed.
Number of UK productions seen as ‘disproportionate’ and threat to Europe’s cultural diversity.
Europa United Media Company is a non-profit Irish organisation Limited By Guarantee and is incorporated in Ireland. Our goal is help to encourage conversation and opinion on the Europe of today though our publications and work as well as providing a platform that supports aspiring writers.
Irish newspapers are resoundingly unimpressed with Boris Johnson's proposed Brexit deal and many commentators in Europe are similarly dismissive of it.
Some European Union diplomats have decided there are too many British films and TV shows on the continent’s streaming platforms, threatening another valuable U.K. export in the wake of Brexit.
The latest twist was likened to a TV saga, and no one knows what the ending will be.
The EU is considering proposals to exclude British programs from European quotas, a move that could severely hit international sales of U.K. films and TV series to the EU.
Europe’s concern for Brexit Britain turns to amusement and something like pity after Liz Truss resignation
23/10/2022
The words for chaotic instability might change from country to country but the reaction is uniform across Europe to Britain’s politics.
When the most anti-EU newspapers are pointing to the policy’s inevitable failures, it’s time our government admitted the truth.
'As striking was his ridiculous vanity: Cummings cared so neurotically about his reputation as a prophet that he forged the record so it appeared that he was warning of the ‘‘urgent need’’ to plan for a coronavirus pandemic while the minds of lesser men and women were elsewhere.'
Fuel crisis the result of ‘shoddy post-Brexit transition’ – French national broadcaster says
05/10/2021
Britain’s fuel crisis is more likely to be the result of the “shoddy post-Brexit transition” than the aftereffects of the coronavirus pandemic, France’s state broadcaster has said.
Brexit will hurt UK interactive entertainment and the wider creative and tech industries - our detailed analysis and our discussions with our stakeholders has shown that clearly.
Channel appears to be moving further right with liberal voices squeezed out and Brexiters reported to be set to join.
INCREASING support for independence, the upcoming Holyrood election and Scotland’s removal from the EU are the focus of several news stories across Germany this morning.
"Brexit was the first time a nation imposed economic sanctions on itself", one viewer commented.
Getting ready for changes - Communication on readiness at the end of the transition period between the European Union and the United Kingdom (European Commission)
09/07/2020
Even if the European Union and the United Kingdom conclude a highly ambitious partnership covering all areas agreed in the Political Declaration by the end of 2020, the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the EU acquis, the internal market and the Customs Union, at the end of the transition period will inevitably create barriers to trade and cross-border exchanges that do not exist today.
A Gloucestershire-based film company warns Brexit is causing "disruption" to the growth of the British industry and wants to see it "reversed". / "We lose a 6-figure sum every year from restrictions and costs caused by Brexit."
“Politicians obscure exclusionary ideologies and policies behind inclusionary rhetoric that highlights the ‘value’ of migrant ‘contributions’," a doctoral researcher said.
Since the early 90s, the UK gutter press have been systematic in their “othering” of the EU, with one disgraceful goal: to make the good people of the UK believe that the EU is their enemy.
The UK’s decision to leave the European Union will have a majorly negative effect on British film and TV, an industry expert has claimed.
How are post-Brexit changes going to directly impact the hiring of EU talent for UK studios and games businesses?
27/05/2021
The changing landscape of our relationship with the EU and the end to freedom of movement is now a reality, and with it comes serious implications for games studios who are looking to hire non-native talent from any of the remaining EU member states.
How balanced was the debate over Brexit?
13/07/2020
In the debate over Brexit, accusations of an anti-Brexit or pro-Brexit bias by the media have been a recurring feature.
As crises mount, the polls show voters turning at last. But the national newspapers that backed Leave – even the two now edited by Remainers – continue to pretend there is nothing wrong.
Is Brexit going well? The same media outlets that blurted deafening pro-Leave messages have become eerily quiet of late.
In post-Brexit age of rampant nationalism how one media outlet is planning to offer a pan-European view
19/06/2022
It is six years since Brexit and Europe is beset by war but the United Kingdom’s Europhiles will this week be offered a novel chance to reconnect with the Continent.
Media outlets around the world have been documenting Britain’s Brexit ‘bregret’ as economic headwinds hit our shores.
John Sweeney complains to Ofcom over BBC News failure to broadcast investigations [on far right, Russia and Brexit]
25/11/2019
Former Newsnight journalist John Sweeney has called for Ofcom to carry out an investigation into BBC News over its failure to broadcast reports on the “far-right, Russia and Brexit”.
Johnson's Brexit drama grips European press
05/09/2019
The latest twists in the Westminster Brexit drama are gripping Europe's newspapers.
FORMER BBC journalist Jon Sopel has said the BBC “ducked” reporting on the full consequences of Brexit after it was accused of having a bias in favour of the UK staying in the EU.
When I'm in France, the reactions I get from French people range from complete indifference to Brexit, through to slight feelings of sadness and pity at the UK’s self-imposed economic and social harm. In Italy, the sadness over Brexit is even more marked, and in this video, I’ll be looking at an article in Italian newspaper La Repubblica this week about the latest impact of Brexit.
Brexit minister says EU move would be to the detriment of viewers but admits UK is powerless to prevent it.
CULTURE Secretary Michelle Donelan has defended BBC board member Robbie Gibb for telling journalists not to cast Brexit in a “negative light”.
Newspaper column's description of For Britain Movement as 'far right' was not inaccurate, IPSO rules
15/02/2019
A newspaper column which called the For Britain Movement “far right” was not inaccurate, the UK’s largest press regulator has ruled.
Nigel Farage: Brexit Party leader earns at least €30,000 a month from media company on top of MEP salary, EU figures reveal
03/07/2019
The MEP founded his media company in 2011 in order to manage payments made to him for media appearances - he remains the sole director.
Union says police need to do more to counter ‘surge in violent extremism against journalists and media workers’.
The Netherlands has lured 140 Brexit-wary companies since the 2016 referendum to quit the EU, it was claimed on Wednesday.
The original “DTAS” licences issued to broadcasters stipulated the message must be shown if the streaming service carries content that falls outside of the jurisdiction of an EEA Member State.
Are political journalists being conned by Number 10 and spreading lies? / The veteran journalist Peter Oborne has accused some of the UK’s biggest news outlets of effectively becoming clients of Boris Johnson’s government and of spreading fake news.
PRESSURE is mounting on the BBC after the broadcaster was accused of editing out a reference to Brexit in a clip about food shortages.
THE government’s sale of Channel 4 could be “revenge” for the station’s “biased coverage of Brexit” and “personal attacks on the PM,” a senior Conservative MP has claimed.
A senior Conservative MP has suggested the government is privatising Channel 4 as “revenge” for its coverage of Brexit.
The media’s difficulty with reporting Brexit has reached a tipping point as the evidence of the damage done continues to accumulate.
Another day, and night, another news cycle saturated by Partygate coverage. Meanwhile, at Dover British exporters are facing unprecedented border queues that are being largely ignored.
The Brexit Bill: Here’s the Damage So Far
30/01/2019
The divorce from the EU looks set to be delayed and could be softened or even abandoned, but the cost of separation is already apparent.
Trade has plummeted and red tape has blocked our borders. Is that what ‘protecting our sovereignty’ meant?
The Future of Europe: Disruption, Continuity and Change - Scottish Centre on European Relations
06/05/2019
Strategy report setting out the big future challenges for the EU – and Scotland’s contribution to that European future
After years of denying the downsides of Britain’s split from the European Union, the Brexit taboo is starting to lift in the governing Conservative Party and the country’s right-wing press.
After years of denying the downsides of Britain’s split from the European Union, the Brexit taboo is starting to lift in the governing Conservative Party and the country’s right-wing press.
The London bureau chief for Germany’s public broadcaster reflects on Britain’s government.
Trade Consultation: Give Your Evidence - UK Trade and Business Commission [Deadline: 17/03/2023]
23/01/2023
The UK Trade and Business Commission is gathering evidence to understand the main challenges facing businesses, organisations and economic sectors to establish which policies and trading arrangements will help overcome the economic and trading barriers facing the UK today.
TVforEU is a campaign to highlight the damage that leaving the EU could cause the UK Television and Film industries. The UK is a world leader in post-production, film and television production, visual effects, television broadcast, TV and film equipment manufacture and sales, systems integration ... We believe that Brexit in all of it's forms is bad for our industry and bad for our country.
We, the signatories of this letter, represent businesses from across the UK film and television industry and are writing to express our concerns over Brexit in any form.
Sky, Amazon, Netflix and BT Sport lose right to let UK viewers automatically watch all content after Brexit transition.
It was overshadowed by the immediate challenges of the pandemic but the fallout from Brexit for the UK’s sales companies and distributors is now pulling into sharp focus. Put simply, it is much harder for UK sales companies to represent European films...
‘A level of chaos not seen in Britain since the war’: US TV presenter delivers devastating assessment of Boris Johnson [video, 1 min]
25/07/2019
A leading US television news host has delivered a brutal assessment of the new prime minister Boris Johnson, saying Britain now faces a “level of chaos … not seen since World War II.”
‘BBC policy on Brexit is not impartial’
29/07/2018
Why is the BBC giving so much time to hardline Brexiteers, asks journalist Raymond Snoddy.
‘Shameful spin machine’: Boris Johnson government criticised over plans for new unit to monitor Brexit news stories
12/08/2019
Boris Johnson’s government has been accused of launching a “shameful spin machine” as it emerged the Cabinet Office will establish a team to monitor reports regarding Britain’s departure from the EU.
‘The UK dictator’: Newspapers across Europe react with fury and fear to Boris Johnson proroguing parliament
11/09/2019
Turmoil at home raises trepidation abroad - with European observers increasingly of view that British democracy is dying.
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