Three weeks before Britain is due to leave the European Union, the president of the European Commission warned Wednesday that the U.K. won’t get the “highest quality access” to the European Union’s market after Brexit unless it makes major concessions.
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After years of angry arguments that toppled two governments, Britain’s parliament on Thursday will finally approve the terms of Brexit, clearing the divided country’s exit from the European Union on Jan. 3
Read moreBritain moves a step closer to a historic departure from the European Union on Tuesday, after more than three years of bitter division and political drama, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson brings his Brexit deal back to parliament without the threat of defeat, deadlock or delay.
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In a recent newspaper column, a well-known Italian journalist worried a United Kingdom acting alone outside the European Union will be tempted to behave like a predatory pirate ship off the coast of Europe: Stealing business, capturing investment and tempting others to join it on the lawless seas.
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In a historic change in direction, the United Kingdom began its shift away from Europe on Friday as the Conservative-dominated House of Commons voted in favor of a deal that spells out the terms of the U.K.’s divorce from the European Union.
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Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Thursday outlined plans for a new independence referendum, saying there is now a clear “constitutional and democratic case” for a fresh vote.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decisive victory in last week’s general election provided little comfort to Britain’s once world-beating financial services industry, which has been battered by Brexit for more than three years.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Tuesday sought to outlaw extending the Brexit transition period beyond the end of 2020, as he prepared to put the EU divorce deal before Parliament.
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Relishing a landslide election victory, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Friday morning that the United Kingdom will leave the European Union by the end of January. Johnson called the Conservative win an “irrefutable” mandate from voters.
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a divisive politician with a flair for clownish antics and a master of sloganeering, was headed toward a landslide election victory Thursday night and on course to take the United Kingdom out of the European Union by the end of January, according to a major exit poll and early results.
Read moreUnder cold gray skies, British voters are casting their ballots in a crucial election that could lead the United Kingdom to break away from the European Union and enter uncharted waters or deliver a hung Parliament and more Brexit uncertainty.
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British voters go to the polls on Thursday in what’s been billed as a crucial once-in-a-lifetime election that could lead the United Kingdom to break away from the European Union and enter uncharted waters or deliver a hung Parliament and more Brexit uncertainty.
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A photo of a sick boy sleeping on a hospital floor because no beds were available has become one of the defining images of Britain’s bruising election campaign.
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Britain’s polarized electorate has a critical choice to make this week — but it seems unlikely the result, whatever it may be, will heal deep and toxic divisions that could last a generation or more.
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After a month-long delay caused by the rejection of three candidates, the European Parliament on Wednesday finally voted in Ursula von der Leyen’s new European Commission.
Read moreOne of the world’s best-selling detective novelists, Jack Reacher creator Lee Child, said he is becoming Irish so he can continue to travel in the European Union after Brexit.
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Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn shared a debate stage Tuesday night and shared two very different visions of the future of the United Kingdom — and both got laughed at by a punchy crowd.
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With another member approved Monday, European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen is set to begin the new session of her executive body next month.
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With the United Kingdom set to vote for a new Parliament in a month, the race is being defined by tactical voting and electoral pacts over Brexit, the question mark looming over the election.
Read moreIn a major shift, Brexit Party leader Nigel Farage said his party will not run against Conservative candidates in almost half of the U.K. seats available in Britain’s Dec. 12 election.
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