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Lawyer: UK’s Brexit Strategy Is Stymying Trade Talks
March 04, 2019
Trade lawyer Shanker Singham writes that the UK Department for International Trade has made more progress than recently reported in improving British trade prospects in case of a no-deal Brexit despite the UK’s inconsistent negotiating strategy with the EU hindering the ability of the agency to strike meaningful deals with other countries.
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UK Opposition Party Calls for Second Brexit Referendum
March 01, 2019
The head of the UK Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has announced his party’s support for a new British referendum on leaving the EU that would include an option on the ballot whether to overturn the result of the 2016 referendum that triggered the Brexit process.
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EU Leaders Support Brexit Delay
March 01, 2019
The Independent reports that President of the EU Council Donald Tusk and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar have supported a delayed Brexit, with the EU Council chief referring to a delay as a “rational” response to the failure of the EU and UK Prime Minister Theresa May to reach a withdrawal deal that is acceptable to the British Parliament.
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AU Opposes EU Plan for Extraterritorial Migrant Processing
March 01, 2019
The Guardian reports that a leaked paper from the African Union (AU) shows the multilateral organization is seeking to dissuade coastal African countries from participating in an EU plan to establish migrant processing centers in their territories, finding such a scheme would violate the international human rights agenda.
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May Offers UK Parliament Vote to Delay Brexit
February 27, 2019
NPR reports that UK Prime Minister Theresa May has offered the House of Commons an opportunity to vote to delay Brexit for up to three months if they reject, in a series of votes in March, both the withdrawal deal she is negotiating with the EU and departure of Britain from the EU on WTO terms.
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