EU negotiator Michel Barnier informed the ambassadors of the 27 member states in Brussels about the outcome of the negotiations, as a spokesman for the German EU presidency announced. The ambassadors then adopted a letter to the European Parliament in which they announced their intention to provisionally put the agreement into effect from January 1st. … Read more
“Many companies will violate regulations because they are not yet familiar with the new flood of rules,” said York-Alexander von Massenbach from the British Chamber of Commerce in Germany of the dpa. “The deal comes very late for companies. Working through 2,000 pages of text in a few days and identifying the consequences is difficult,” … Read more
24.12.2020 12:36 Uhr – 01:31 min Agreement may also be too late Health system threatens collapse in the event of a no-deal Brexit Great Britain is deeply in the middle of a disastrous development of the corona crisis in the country, now the approaching Brexit threatens to make many things worse. Not least because of … Read more
Canada and the UK have signed a preliminary agreement to avoid automatic tariff increases after the end of the Brexit transition period. As the Canadian Foreign Ministry announced on Tuesday (local time), the agreement ensures that the applicable tariffs remain constant until a trade agreement that has already been negotiated between the two countries is … Read more
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
DW: What do you know about the Coronavirus mutation in South Africa? Is it similar to the UK variant? Wolfgang Preiser: It’s not the same virus variant. They evidently arose independently of one another. However, they have some things in common. And these similarities are what worries us. The mutations may have an influence on … Read more
Flights from Great Britain are no longer allowed to land in Hamburg. A new form of the coronavirus had been discovered there. The day before, three passenger planes landed at Hamburg Airport. Since midnight, aircraft from Great Britain have been banned from landing in Hamburg. A version of the corona virus was found there that … Read more
The flight ban came into effect on Sunday at 6 a.m. and is valid until January 1st. The government in The Hague reacted to the detection of a new, contagious mutation of the coronavirus in the Netherlands. According to the Ministry of Health, this variant corresponds to the version already circulating in Great Britain. According … Read more
British companies in anticipation of Brexit began to actively buy goods in the EU, which led to many kilometers of traffic jams on the roads leading towards France in Kent. writes The Guardian. According to the newspaper, on December 19, a queue of approximately 8 km long gathered from trucks on the M20 highway before … Read more
The first world governments have already approved the vaccines, after China and Russia it is already the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States, and at the end of the year the European Union will probably join them. The public asks a number of questions, the answers to which can determine the success of vaccination … Read more