“I can’t work out what’s stopped the UK up to now from being ‘Global Britain’ except its own lack of competitiveness,” Michel Barnier writes in the book he just published about his more than four years as the EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit. “Germany is ‘Global Germany’ while being solidly inside the EU and the…
Die derzeitige Lage des Vereinigten Königreiches ist in jeglicher Hinsicht einzigartig. Wirtschaftlich zeichnet sich Großbritannien durch eine signifikante Diskrepanz zwischen der gegenwärtigen und der zukünftig erwarteten Lage aus. Die Märkte scheinen der sechsgrößten Volkswirtschaft der Welt ein Vertrauensvotum ausgesprochen zu haben, auch wegen der Implementierung einer raschen und erfolgreichen Impfstoffkampagne. Doch vorerst müssen die unmittelbaren…
Businesses now need to focus on adapting in the most efficient way 1st of January 2021 – the beginning of the “new normal” in UK-EU trade relations On 24th December 2020 the UK and the European Union agreed on a new trade relationship – the so-called Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The Agreement came into force…
2021 dawned, and, four and a half years after the EU Referendum vote, the UK has finally left the EU in practice, as opposed to in theory in January 2020. The transition phase has ended and EU law no longer applies in principle to the UK or UK citizens. Only it was not really a…