Scotland can leave the United Kingdom, but being a part of the European Union will bring its own set of unique problems.
Britain will on Monday formally apply to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), an 11-nation free-trade bloc of Asia-Pacific countries.
The EU also abruptly reversed course on a plan to use emergency Brexit measures to restrict exports of vaccines through the Irish border to the United Kingdom after it sent shockwaves through Belfast, London and Dublin.
You don’t need to look much further than the Biden administration to see that the European Union has much to learn from the US about how to become a superpower and think big.
FM Dominic Raab says UK will introduce new rules for firms to try to prevent goods linked to alleged forced labour of Muslim Uighurs in China's Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Meanwhile, Beijing warns London not to interfere in its affairs.
British expatriates residing in Spain are unable to board flights to Barcelona and Madrid after airlines claimed their papers were no longer valid post-Brexit.
Britain no longer has to apply an EU law mandating a minimum five percent tax on sanitary products, as it left the European Union single market and customs union at 2300 GMT on Thursday.
Brexit, in essence, took place at the stroke of midnight in Brussels, 2300 London time (GMT), when the UK ended its de facto membership, known as the transition period, which lasted 11 months after it formally left the EU on January 31, 2020.
Legally, Britain left the EU on January 31 but has been in a standstill transition period during fractious talks to secure a free-trade agreement with Brussels. From, January 1, 2021, EU rules will no longer apply to the British people.
The agreement between Turkey and UK will go into effect New Year’s Day on January 1st. Turkish Trade Minister Ruhsar Pekcan says the deal is historic for ties between the two countries.
Avoiding any trade disruption, Turkey and the United Kingdom signed a free trade deal that covers all industrial and agricultural goods.
Ambassadors of the 27-nation bloc have all approved a post-Brexit trade deal with Britain, fulfilling a prerequisite for the agreement to come into effect on January 1, 2021.
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