Page 11 - Latest Updates on Brexit
Head of UK govt's legal department quits over Brexit deal threat
Jonathan Jones was leaving his job due to a dispute with Johnson's office over its reported plans to undercut the Withdrawal Agreement treaty signed in January
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Brexit row: UK admits it may break international law in 'limited way'
Britain headed into a fresh round of Brexit trade talks acknowledged it could break international law but only in a "limited way" after reports it may undercut its divorce treaty with the EU
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UK ramps up no deal preparations as European Union trade talks stall
Britain will tell the European Union that progress must be made in trade talks this week or the government will step up preparations to leave the bloc without a deal
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PM Boris Johnson says UK will quit Brexit talks if no deal by October 15
Boris Johnson said Britain could walk away from the talks within weeks and insisting that a no-deal exit would be a "good outcome for the UK"
UK unafraid to walk away without EU trade deal, says Brexit negotiator
David Frost and EU negotiator Michel Barnier are due to meet in London on Tuesday for the eighth round of negotiations since Britain left the now 27-nation bloc on January 31
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UK warns EU on Brexit: We won't blink first, not scared of no-deal exit
Britain will not blink first in Brexit trade negotiations with the European Union and is not scared of a no-deal exit, the country's top Brexit negotiator warned the bloc
UK officials see 30%-40% chance of Brexit trade deal with EU: Report
UK left the EU on Jan 31, turning its back after 47 years on the post-World War Two project that sought to build the ruined nations of Europe into a global power
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Brexit taken off agenda for EU envoys' meeting due to stalled talks
A discussion about the negotiations over Britain and the European Union's post-Brexit relationship has been dropped from the agenda of a meeting of EU envoys next week because the talks have stalled
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Looming Brexit and potential fallout
India needs to look beyond the US and EU to widen its trade and investments
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UK looking to drop 'Facebook tax' in favour of post-Brexit deal: Report
Britain introduced the digital services tax in April after slow progress in global negotiations over how to tax tech giants, many of which are US companies
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No breakthrough in seventh round of European Union-UK negotiations
The chief negotiator noted that the two sides remained far apart on issues including a level playing field in trade, fisheries, governance and law enforcement
Brexit: UK, EU resume talks on future ties, as new deadline looms
Negotiations were to resume Tuesday on the future trade ties between the European Union and the United Kingdom after Brexit
The post-Brexit world
More uncertainty is the only certainty
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Britain, European Union set new timetable of meetings for post-Brexit deal
The latest round of talks ended on July 23 when both sides said there is still some way to go to reach a future trading relationship
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FDI norms to be eased further, other economic reforms in pipeline: Goyal
The minister said that new industrial policy and forest policy would be brought out soon, along with further forms in the mining sector
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World coronavirus dispatch: Rumours, fear and rising deaths in Pakistan
From the pandemic hitting black voters' incomes the hardest, to the status of Brexit, and how Covid-19 hit Malaysia's palm oil industry - read these and more in today's world dispatch
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Letter to BS: Global interdependence of economies cannot be wished away
We will require the very best in global leadership to be better prepared for the next inevitable universal cataclysm, be it natural disasters or man-made pandemics
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Brexit trade talks scheduled for next week cancelled over Coronavirus
"Given the latest COVID-19 developments, EU and UK negotiators have today jointly decided not to hold next week's round of negotiations in London, in the form originally scheduled," the source said
Britain spent 4.4 billion pounds of taxpayers' money to prepare for Brexit
The National Audit Office said in a report that most of the money was spent on staff costs, building new infrastructure and paying for external advice
Britain, EU starts post-Brexit relationship talks amid disagreements
The EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier and UK counterpart David Frost met in Brussels, launching several months of intense closed-door negotiations involving around 100 officials on each side
