The next deadline has passed, but negotiations on a trade agreement between the UK and the EU are still going on. What options are there now? Of Katrin pribyl “Take care and thank you for the fish” is the title of a volume in the novel series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” and meanwhile … Read more
The UK and the EU are continuing to negotiate a Brexit trade pact at high pressure. The talks remain difficult, as was heard from negotiating circles late on Saturday evening. “The most likely result” is currently a no deal, it said. “We’ll turn every stone to get a deal off the ground.” But there are … Read more
Time is pressing more than ever. Without a free trade agreement, as of January 1, relations between the United Kingdom and the EU will be governed by the rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO), a scenario of unforeseeable economic consequences that carries tariffs and fees. – Fishing rights in British waters again blocked talks … Read more
Press conference after the agreement. Capture – The Twenty-seven achieved this Thursday, after almost 24 hours of uninterrupted negotiations, close an agreement on the annual distribution of Total Allowable Catches (TACs) and fishing quotas for the Atlantic and the North Sea and the plan for the Mediterranean, which to a large extent reached an agreement … Read more
The UK government has four Navy ships on hand to protect their waters from EU fishermen in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The Ministry of Defense confirms this to the dpa news agency on Saturday. – The Navy’s patrol boats could be used, among other things, to fend off EU fishing boats, the spokesman … Read more
Lower Saxony’s European Minister Birgit Honé (SPD) welcomed the proposed emergency measures by the EU in the event that the Brexit negotiations fail. They are limited in time and mainly concern the maintenance of air and road traffic and the access of European and British fishermen to the respective fishing grounds. “With this, the EU … Read more
According to Japanese Minister of Industry and Trade Hiroshi Gadjama, nothing has been officially decided yet. “But we must make a decision quickly,” Gajiyama told a news conference. The Japanese government should issue a verdict by the end of this month. During the 2011 accident, radioactive water leaked from three damaged reactors at the Fukushima … Read more
October 9, 2020 at 3:29 pm Hygiene concept approved : Two indoor swimming pools in Krefeld can open again <!– <!– – <!– – The indoor pools in Bockum and Fischeln open again for all swimmers – at least at certain times. Photo: Jochmann, Dirk (dj) – – Krefeld The baths in Bockum and Fischeln … Read more
If the Brexit negotiations fail, Flemish fishermen want to claim a 354-year-old privilege, with which the British King Charles II gave fifty fishermen from Bruges ‘eternal access’ to British waters. – Fishing rights remain an issue during the negotiation of a trade agreement with Great Britain. The European Union is in principle (like Belgium) working … Read more