Brexit

UK to start issuing post-Brexit blue passports

The new blue cover passports will be issued and delivered early next month and will be replacing the burgundy passports that were introduced in 1988.

After Brexit, EU faces ‘most difficult’ budget negotiations in history

While countries with strong economies that contribute more to the budget don’t want to see their payments increase despite the gap left by Brexit, the poorer countries want to keep the status quo.

EU leaders clash at 'very tough' budget summit

European Union leaders began talks on a joint 2021-27 budget that will need to fill $81 billion hole left by Britain's departure just as they face costly climate and other challenges.

EU leaders to clash over money as Brexit blows hole in budget

The budget is the most tangible expression of key areas on which the EU members must focus over the next seven years and their willingness to stump up.

France to be vigilant on British post-Brexit freeports – minister

Britain formally left the EU on January 31 but remains subject to EU laws and regulations during a transition period due to last until the end of this year.

Sinn Fein’s election victory in Ireland is a ‘seismic shift’

This is what brought Sinn Fein to victory in the Irish polls.

Will Brexit favour Turkey's relations with Europe?

Without the UK military, the EU might need NATO protection more than ever, which can increase the political leverage of Turkey in Europe as a second biggest army in the alliance.

Britain lays out tough stance for EU trade talks

"We'll want to cooperate and we expect the EU to follow through on their commitment to a Canada-style free trade agreement," says British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab.

Now for the hard part: EU-UK trade talks to be complicated

Hard work of building new economic ties between EU and its ex-member begins as Britain formally leaves economic bloc after 47 years of membership.

UK officially leaves EU after 47 years of membership

Britain becomes the first country to quit the European Union after 47 years in the club, leaving 27 member states that will now regard it as a third country.

Johnson hails UK's 'new beginning' as Brexit day arrives

In Brussels, EU Council President Charles Michel and Commission leader Ursula von der Leyen are due to sketch out the first steps as a bloc of 27, rather than 28. UK PM Boris Johnson will meet his Cabinet in the pro-Brexit town of Sunderland.

Was the UK ever a genuine member of the European Union?

Britain's divorce from the EU is the natural culmination of a long and uneasy membership.