Britain is preparing to become the first country to deliver – this week – the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech against Covid-19. Doses of the vaccine were initially made available to hospitals before stocks were distributed to medical clinics, the government said. The first installments are expected to be delivered on Tuesday, with the British National Health Service (NHS)...
The Franco-German request to Britain to follow EU rules remains open The European Union and the United Kingdom have almost finalized the conditions for the level of access of EU ships to the seas within the exclusive 200-mile economic zone of the United Kingdom, writes the British newspaper Guardian, citing EU sources. This is a significant step forward in the...
The Irish Prime Minister says that everything is on the razor’s edge The chances of an agreement on Britain leaving the European Union smoothly are at 50%. The talks, which resumed on Sunday, “are on the razor’s edge”, said Irish Prime Minister Michael Martin. “My instinct is that we are at 50-50 at the moment, and I do not think...
Talks resume on Sunday to prevent Britain from leaving without an agreement. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Saturday urged their Brexit negotiators to resume talks, but warned that no agreement would be possible unless key issues were resolved. “There remain significant differences on three crucial issues: a level playing field, governance...
LONDON. Negotiations on the EU trade agreement are at an extremely critical juncture. – Britain, with negotiators setting Monday as the “deadline” for parliaments to ratify the budding agreement before the 31 December deadline. France denied the optimism expressed on Thursday, noting that in the event that the agreement is not satisfactory, Paris retains the right to veto, as do...
British and European Union negotiators have not reached an agreement on a new trade relationship between the two sides after the end of the Brexit transition period, London and Brussels have announced. “After a week of intensive negotiations in London with David Frost (the British negotiator), we have concluded that the conditions for an agreement are not being met,” said...