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UK seeks more influence in Indo-Pacific as 'moderating impact' on China

William James and Elizabeth Piper, Reuters
Posted at Mar 16 10:53 PM

LONDON - Britain wants to expand its influence among countries in the Indo-Pacific region to try to moderate China's global dominance, a document laying out post-Brexit foreign and defense policy priorities said on Tuesday. Read more »

UK car output slumps nearly a third in 2020: industry

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 28 09:40 AM

British car production plunged by nearly one-third last year, the weakest annual output since 1984 as a result of coronavirus fallout, industry data showed Thursday. Read more »

Expensive cheese, rotting seafood and other Brexit problems

Hilary Clarke, South China Morning Post
Posted at Jan 26 05:18 PM

Less than a month after the UK finally left the European Union’s single market, warnings of trade disruptions by those who wanted to remain a member of the trade bloc are becoming reality for some businesses.   Read more »

British firms await retail liberalization, Public Services Act to invest in PH

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Jan 25 12:11 PM

British firms are waiting for the passage of the Retail Trade Liberalization Act and Public Services Act as a signal to invest in the Philippines, a top official of the British Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines (BCCP) said Monday. Read more »

With little ado, a divided United Kingdom casts off into the Brexit unknown

Guy Faulconbridge and Kate Holton, Reuters
Posted at Jan 01 10:01 AM

After years of Brexit vitriol, one of the most significant events in European history since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union passed with little fanfare: The United Kingdom slipped away, serenaded by the silence of the COVID-19 crisis.   Read more »

UK-EU Brexit bill resolves 'vexed' European question: Johnson

Reuters
Posted at Dec 30 10:27 AM

Britain will be able to trade with its European neighbors and keep control of its laws and destiny, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will say on Wednesday before lawmakers vote on the Brexit deal he clinched at the eleventh hour. Read more »

With just days to go, Britain urges business to prepare for end of Brexit transition

Alistair Smout, Reuters
Posted at Dec 28 08:56 AM

Britain on Monday urged businesses to prepare for Brexit, just days before a transition period designed to smooth the UK's departure from the European Union comes to an end. Read more »

Britain faces major Brexit challenges after last-minute deal

Germain Moyon, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 26 12:06 AM

Britain is set for a new chapter Friday after securing a hard-fought post-Brexit trade deal with the European Union as EU envoys gathered to discuss an accord reached only after months of tortuous negotiations. Read more »

A Brexit trade deal at last: EU and UK clinch narrow accord

Reuters
Posted at Dec 24 11:23 PM

Britain clinched a Brexit trade deal with the European Union on Thursday, just seven days before it exits one of the world's biggest trading blocs in its most significant global shift since the loss of empire.   Read more »

For UK, an early taste of Brexit as borders are sealed

Benjamin Mueller and Isabella Kwai, The New York Times
Posted at Dec 22 12:45 PM

For Britons who were already girding for the country to finalize its messy divorce from the European Union on Dec. 31, the sudden sense of being cut adrift from the bloc — and from the world at large — felt like a bitter taste of what might be to come.   Read more »

Britain, EU tell each other to give way in 'difficult' trade talks

Elizabeth Piper and Gabriela Baczynska, Reuters
Posted at Dec 21 07:32 AM

Britain insisted on Sunday that the European Union should shift position to open the way to a post-Brexit trade pact, drawing a swift response from the bloc's negotiator defending the union's right to protect its interests.   Read more »

British Chamber sees challenges for PH economy until first half of 2021

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 15 01:37 PM

The British Chamber of Commerce Philippines (BCCP) plans ahead to attract foreign investors next year despite seeing continued challenges for the Philippine economy until the first half of next year, a chamber head said Tuesday. Read more »

Last-ditch effort to save Brexit trade talks from failure

Alex Pigman, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 07 01:04 AM

British and EU negotiators embarked on probably their final two-day scramble to secure a post-Brexit trade deal Sunday, after failing for eight months to reach agreement.  Read more »

Margin for compromise limited as Brexit talks go down to wire

Dave Clark, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 04 11:52 AM

European diplomats warned Thursday they have made all the concessions they can in trade talks with Britain, as Downing Street vowed to press ahead with a UK law that could undermine Brussels' remaining trust in London. Read more »

'It'll be carnage': British companies dread a Brexit border breakdown

Kate Holton, Reuters
Posted at Oct 26 05:35 PM

Deal or no deal, British companies will have to confront a wall of bureaucracy that threatens chaos at the border if they want to sell into the world's biggest trading bloc when life after Brexit begins on January 1.   Read more »

Brexit drama: British PM Johnson to answer EU's demand to give ground

Guy Faulconbridge, Reuters
Posted at Oct 16 04:14 PM

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will on Friday give Britain's response to the European Union's demand that he either make more concessions to secure a trade deal or brace for a disorderly Brexit at the end of the year.   Read more »

'Good progress' is not good enough: EU to push Brexit Britain on trade

Robin Emmott and Philip Blenkinsop, Reuters
Posted at Oct 15 01:36 PM

European Union leaders meeting in Brussels on Thursday will pressure Britain for concessions in their troubled Brexit talks, saying a trillion euros worth of trade could be sunk if London does not budge on fisheries, fair competition and solving disputes. Read more »

Britain open to Aussie-style EU trade deal but Australia wants more

Byron Kaye and Swati Pandey, Reuters
Posted at Oct 05 04:42 PM

As Britain's negotiations with the European Union on a post-Brexit trade deal go down to the wire, Prime Minister Boris Johnson says his country could trade with the bloc on similar terms to Australia, if no agreement is reached. Read more »

Britain, EU split on state aid in crunch week of trade talks

Gabriela Baczynska and John Chalmers, Reuters
Posted at Oct 01 05:04 PM

British and EU trade negotiators have failed to close the gap on state aid, a key element barring their new agreement on post-Brexit trade ties, officials and diplomatic sources with the bloc said as 27 national leaders gather in Brussels on Thursday.   Read more »

Amal Clooney quits UK envoy post over Brexit bill

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 21 01:30 AM

Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney on Friday resigned her post as a UK envoy for media freedom, in protest at the government's "lamentable" decision to breach its EU divorce treaty.   Read more »