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Brexit: UK delays border checks on EU goods into Great Britain
Post-Brexit checks on some EU goods coming into Great Britain have been delayed by six months in order to give businesses more time to prepare. The government said the new timetable would help firms recovering in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. The need for health...
Thames Freeport ‘open for business’ after Government backing
Thames Freeport announced 3 March that it was open to do business with new customers, hours after the Government announced that it would be one of eight new freeports in England. Thames Freeport is a digitally linked economic zone connecting Ford’s world-class...
EU says it expects financial services deal with UK, but trust an issue
Britain and the European Union are on course to agree a deal on regulatory cooperation in financial services this month, but the UK’s actions in Northern Ireland makes it harder to build trust, the bloc’s financial services chief said on Thursday. “We are on track,”...
Britain to offer fast-track visas to bolster fintechs after Brexit
Finance minister Rishi Sunak said that now Britain has left the European Union, it wants to make sure its immigration system helps businesses attract the best hires. “This new fast-track scale-up stream will make it easier for fintech firms to recruit innovators and...
How the new Brexit bureaucracy is putting some UK industries in difficulties
The Brexiteers always boasted that leaving the European Union would result in a bonfire of red tape. But what’s the reality since we left the transition phase almost two months ago? One way of summing it up is in a string of F-words: fish, fashion, fun, finance and...
How businesses have adapted to new trading rules with Europe
Businesses that have not yet prepared for new trading rules with Europe which came into effect from 1 January are being urged to act now to help ensure they can continue to trade smoothly. Even though the UK has secured a zero-tariff, zero-quota deal, doing...
EU moves to allow continued data flows to Britain after Brexit
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said on Friday Britain’s data protection laws were in line with the European Union’s despite Brexit and it would start a process to allow a continued flow of police and financial data from the EU to Britain for the next 4...
Brexit Negotiator Frost Joins Johnson’s Team With EU Focus
David Frost takes charge of EU ties, Brexit opportunities Frost will be a full member of Boris Johnson’s U.K. Cabinet Prime Minister Boris Johnson appointed former Brexit negotiator David Frost to his cabinet, putting him in charge of relations with the European Union...
U.K. Holds Back Trade Scrutiny Plan After Striking EU Deal
Email shows government was due to release FTA analysis method U.K. has said it won’t publish impact assessment on EU accord The U.K. is holding back its plan for evaluating the economic impact of new trade deals, which was prepared before Prime Minister Boris Johnson...
National Theatre to halt Europe tours over Brexit rules
EU work permit regulations could scupper productions like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time A scene from the National Theatre’s production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, the Europe tour of which could be shelved as post-Brexit...