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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Does the block of any people entering EU from UK plus the no deal scenario after 1 of jan very real means that UK people will not be able to enter EU until the spring?

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Does the block of any people entering EU from UK plus the no deal scenario after 1 of jan very real means that UK people will not be able to enter EU until the spring?

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

https://twitter.com/davidmcallister/sta ... 9499826176

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Nothing extreme about it, there are media articles that support what I have said as well as NI Supreme Court ruling as Non-Justifiable on the issue of a hard border in Ireland. The issue of a customs border is political not a legal issue under the Belfast Agreement The high court in Belfast has dis...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

It seems like there will be no agreement for EU Parliament to consider today; I suppose that now we have a no deal at least for a period unavoidable; Brexit deadline MISSED: EU trade talks in chaos and could now stretch through CHRISTMAS https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1374903/Brexit-deadlin...

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Re: Emma Watson "Done with Hollywood."

It seems like Hollywood has lost its dominance as well. Today's streaming content is much more mixed in language. origin then ever before.

Streaming today is serials not movie dominated. Hollywood today has the same stars as it had 15 -30 years ago. It is a frozen world.

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

BMW ready to move car production to Germany and China https://www.bmwblog.com/2020/12/17/bmw-could-move-mini-production-to-europe-or-china-post-brexit/ And notice, they need long term stability, or they will need to move the production. So far the rumoured compromise does not offer this long term s...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

How is UK sovereign rule in compliance with the fact that NI will stay in SM, a SM that UK now has no veto or say over in combination with a defacto border in the Irish sea?

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

If you want access to something, you'll have to give, simple as that. Living up to a set of common rules is not considered 'giving', that is just 'normal behaviour' in a group really. Someone upthread already linked to a very enlightening intervention by Spanish foreign minister. https://twitter.co...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Anytime Farage says " sadly I fear " then you know you can ignore it. Far simpler to just ignore him completely. :yes: I will take a small crumb of comfort from Brexit if Farage is unhappy with the outcome (that and his bestie the other side of the Atlantic losing). The problem is that th...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

If you want access to something, you'll have to give, simple as that. Living up to a set of common rules is not considered 'giving', that is just 'normal behaviour' in a group really. Someone upthread already linked to a very enlightening intervention by Spanish foreign minister. https://twitter.co...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

So it’s just a coincidence that soon after the EU/US trade dispute and that the EU asked AU for leeway in the dispute that negotiations for a trade deal happened soon after the fact I would say it is a little bit more. I happen to have been living and worked with south america during a period of mo...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Farage says that it seems that Brexit in many will be a brexit in name only; Even the wording is "sell out". The ardent Brexiteer went on to outline what he saw as three huge areas where the Prime Minister has sold out to the EU. He said: "I have been worried about the signs over the ...

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Re: Can the COVID-19 Free zones remain locked away forever?

Updates from NZ and the South Pacific https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/health/coronavirus/123736446/new-zealand-to-offer-free-covid19-vaccines-to-everyone-from-mid2021 Vaccination of border workers beginning q2 2021, followed by the general population from midyear. Detailed planning of the roll out...

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Re: Can the COVID-19 Free zones remain locked away forever?

I would say that Australia, NZ, Finland Norway is examples where it is quit simple to lock off geographical. Other countries that has tried to lock down things seems to have a mixed pictures like Germany and Denmark even Oslo areas in Norway not mention the spring 2020 best in the class Czech republ...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

The UK / EU trade balance described is for products. The main UK export is services that is not included. That is not discussed in UK media and will be hit worse. My understanding is that services is growing in whole Europe right now but growth that would have come to UK will now be inside EU. The S...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

The new Nissan Ariya for EU customers will be produced in Japan and not in UK or EU. Seems that both EU27 and UK will loose out on this new electric car. It cites uncertainty over import duties as reason for the decision. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Nissan-picks-Japan-not-Britain-t...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

The new Nissan Ariya for EU customers will be produced in Japan and not in UK or EU. Seems that both EU27 and UK will loose out on this new electric car. It cites uncertainty over import duties as reason for the decision. https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Automobiles/Nissan-picks-Japan-not-Britain-t...

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Re: Updated: A COVID-19 vaccine candidate works!

EU seems to have target of approval mid next week; BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has been told by the European Commission that Dec. 23 has now been set as the target date for making a recommendation on the COVID-19 vaccine developed by BioNTech and Pfizer, a government source said on Tues...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

And it doesn’t disqualify that the talks only happened because of the EU/US trade dispute, yes there are a lot of commonality between the EU/AU but if it was a high priority it would have been done years ago I don’t see the EU demanding that AU reciprocate that AU follow EU rules in dynamic alignme...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Why does the UK keep coming back to the negotiating table? Something isn’t adding up. The biggest flaw of democracy is that you get elected if you're popular. Competence and knowledge won't get you elected. Mr. Alexander de Pfeffel just puts up a show and wants to prove he's battling the EU until t...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

As expected EU now says that even if a FTA is agreed a period of No Deal will probably come; Britain could be plunged into no-deal Brexit conditions even if a trade deal with the EU is sealed before the deadline of the end of the year, Michel Barnier has warned. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...

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Re: 250kg bomb found during construction in Dhaka airport

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/14/euro ... index.html

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Anyway, seems things are moving a bit in Brussels: The UK has reportedly given ground on the LPF demand from the EU and is now accepting the principle that it will lose tariff free Single Market access if it no longer fulfiills the conditions set for it: a sort of a guillotine clause just like the ...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

I seem to recall that much of the fish in UK waters doesn´t really sell in the UK.... so also poor British fishermen, no one wants their catch where they can deliver without tariffs slapped on. Exactly. Something which you would have thought British fisherman would know. You can't expect an ordinar...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Norway blocked that. Link? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/27/efta-countries-wary-of-commons-interest-in-norway-brexit-option In Norway, probably the single most influential country inside EFTA, opinion appears to be hardening against UK membership. The concern is expressed openly by ...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

How many extended deadlines does this make now? I don't think its ever going to actually happen. Don't worry, the transition period is fixed by law - December 31st. If any deal is agreed at this point it will need to come with some kind of extension of SM membership if UK shall not be under WTO / N...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

The negotiations will continue and not finish today.

Considering that not many days remains until end of 2020 do they consider one extension until the FTA can become legally implemented?

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Poor French fisherman. Will be out of a job shortly. Be careful what you wish for. Those same French fishermen can do an aweful lot of damage to the UK by blocking French harbours, and you might be surprised by the level of sympathy they will get. Beside blocking UK exports they can start to smugle...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Arion640 wrote:
Poor French fisherman. Will be out of a job shortly.

Not if they fish Scallops it seems.

I suppose that the fishing aimed at the EU markets will need to adjust and go for other seas. Exporting from UK will be ccomplicated so the big winner is the fish migrated from EU waters to UK waters...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Here's a suggestion for the UK in case of no-deal. Let the EU pay for the privilege of fishing in UK waters for the next 37 years for the round figure of 39 billion pounds and the following payment schedule: http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/CBP-8039/assets/35f0c5f1-3caf-4fc2-9...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

I sadly think that UK has a great chance to create their own "Dolchstoßlegende" if it is not already the case.

UK Brexiteers seems to explain everything special the fall of the empire on EU since 20 years back.

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

M Johnsson tried to side step EU and its 27 members and only go with the big Germany and France; France and Germany said no. https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1371150/brexit-latest-news-eu-uk-trade-talks-boris-johnson-merkel-macron-barnier-no-deal-brexit Oh, gee. What is it with Johnson. Does...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics ... eal-brexit

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EU starts No Deal planning; What does this give as effect? The EU has published contingency measures that keep trucks, trains and planes moving in a No Deal exit. But guess what? They require to Britain uphold a “level playing field” including subsidy controls - the same principle it is willing to s...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

That is where you are wrong. The EU asks for nothing from the UK and is not even in a position to do so. It is bound to offer a trade deal as part of the future relationship to the UK, but the UK is free to walk away at any time. In fact the UK does not even need to talk to the EU at all. The only ...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

why the UK suddenly dropped the intension to alter the WA via the IMB, From my understanding it wasn’t suddenly dropped but a resolution was found in the joint committee from the previous extreme position taken by the EU on border controls and tariffs and exports declarations to the EU backing down...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

So we still have 48 hours left until Friday afternoon. Interesting 48 hours.

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

agill wrote:
What is it they have agreed on? To me it sounds like the WA all over again?

They have agreed on that WA shall be honoured.

Basic; NI stays in SM.

No border on Ireland but in the Irish sea.

Without this UK could neither make FTA wigh USA nor EU.

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Climbdown seems to have begun... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-08/johnson-warns-situation-tricky-ahead-in-talks-brexit-update?srnd=premium-europe The Brithsh government has just announced it is abandoning the provisions in the internal market bill that would have undermined the wi...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

I've read on the Express website some political guy arguing that "Merkel is the real Brexit villain", not for her current stance, but for not giving in on immigration to Cameron, who needed something more to win the referendum. It's really strange to read this. First of all, a Brexiter ba...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

'The British people would rightly expect that to start straight away'. Actually, reading it again there is no promise that he would trigger A50 at all. This is like the 350 million per week on the infamous bus. It actually never said Brexit was going to meant 350 million per week to NHS but people ...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

From the channel 4 fact check document regarding the treasury analysis. “ Though it’s worth saying that the prediction was based on the assumption that we would trigger Article 50 immediately after the referendum, which did not happen. We don’t know if Mr Osborne’s prediction would have come true h...

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And where did say he will trigger A50 the day after the referenda? Here is a link to parliaments own record keepers, Hasard, dated February 22nd 2016. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201516/cmhansrd/cm160222/debtext/160222-0001.htm Quote from the publication. [quote=“David Cameron”] On the ...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Amazing people still do not understand Merkel after all this years. When she says that she wants a deal, she means that a good deal would be beneficial for both sides and that would be her preferred outcome. It does not mean that she is willing to make a bad deal though. Of course Merkel wants a go...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Did the BOE get it right when they said that a vote to leave the EU will lead to an immediate recession for the UK? Did they not say when they leave the SM. UK will leave the SM 1 of Jan 2021. As I remember Leave said that leaving would mean great business opportunity and increased growth the day a...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

The governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, says this. So why couldn't he be trusted? Just an analysis. So if we trust governor of the Bank of England can we trust the UK government telling us the totally opposite? Did the BOE get it right when they said that a vote to leave the EU will lea...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

I would not be so sure because Angela wants a deal and Boris knows it. My prediction: Boris will give in on fish and Ursula/Angela will direct Barnier to go back to the negotiating table to hand the UK a better deal than EEA members have. I would be pleasantly surprised if the EU walks away. Yet it...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

Sadly the chancellor disagrees with that. That is the problem with the UK and its current governmet, it behaves like 2 countries with completely different opinions and goals. You never know which version you will get. This is a receipt for disaster.. What numbers coming out of UK can be trusted? Th...

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Re: Brexit Part IX: Final rush to No Deal

I would not be so sure because Angela wants a deal and Boris knows it. My prediction: Boris will give in on fish and Ursula/Angela will direct Barnier to go back to the negotiating table to hand the UK a better deal than EEA members have. I would be pleasantly surprised if the EU walks away. Yet it...

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