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Britain's May seeks Brexit delay from Merkel, Macron
AFP, Published on 09/04/2019
» LONDON: British Prime Minister Theresa May meets the leaders of Germany and France on Tuesday in a last-gasp bid to keep her country from crashing out of the European Union later this week.
May faces quit call after securing Brexit delay
AFP, Published on 11/04/2019
» LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May faced down a call to resign on Thursday as she implored MPs to resolve the Brexit impasse at last after the EU granted a new six-month delay.
Pressure on for Brexit compromise after polls debacle
AFP, Published on 04/05/2019
» LONDON - Britain's two biggest parties said there was renewed impetus Saturday to find a compromise on Brexit after taking a battering in local elections from voters exasperated by the impasse.
British PM eyes final Brexit battle in June
AFP, Published on 15/05/2019
» LONDON: Theresa May has set the stage for a fourth showdown with parliament over her EU withdrawal deal next month, which could also be her last act as Britain's prime minister.
Embattled May dangles promise of new Brexit vote
AFP, Published on 22/05/2019
» LONDON - British Prime Minister Theresa May vowed Tuesday to give lawmakers a vote on holding a second Brexit referendum as part of her final effort to salvage her hated EU divorce deal.
Brexit to be sealed with final Brussels vote
AFP, Published on 29/01/2020
» BRUSSELS - Brexit Day is to be set in stone Wednesday when the European Parliament in Brussels casts a vote ratifying the terms of Britain's divorce deal from the EU.
Britain leaves EU but Brexit far from over
Published on 01/02/2020
» The United Kingdom has left the European Union after almost half a century of membership, setting the stage for 11 months of potentially fraught talks that will determine whether the two sides can avert a chaotic divorce.
Brexit doesn't mean the European project is dead
News, Published on 11/02/2020
» Brexit is a disaster for the United Kingdom. Given the risk that it will now lose Scotland and Northern Ireland to secession, the country seems to have accepted the idea of Great Britain turning back into "Little England". Britain is that rare lion that chooses to become as small as a mouse.
No, Brexit Britain doesn't want its empire back
News, John Lloyd, Published on 14/01/2019
» Britain is moving towards an exit from the European Union on March 29, possibly with no agreement, and thus courting – according to the Bank of England – an 8 percent drop in GDP and a 7.5% rise in unemployment. A drear prospect, attended by matching drear commentaries on the stupidity of the 52 percent of the British electorate who voted for Brexit in 2016.
A Brexit lesson from the cradle of democracy
News, Leonid Bershidsky, Published on 16/01/2019
» The Macedonian parliament's vote to rename the country and thus remove the biggest obstacle to its integration into Western institutions is evidence that intractable political issues are best resolved through the traditional backroom dealings of representative democracy rather than through the direct expression of popular will.