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Hazy ‘breakthrough’ saves PM May, leaves Ireland in limbo: Brexit

December 11, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

With only a couple of hours sleep in the very early hours of last Friday, the British PM Theresa May boarded a RAF aircraft and landed in Brussels before dawn. Weary as she was, she rushed to Berlaymont building, the EU Commission headquarters. There she met Jean-Claude Juncker the President of the European Commission and […]

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EU’s unsparing question to UK: now what kind of future relations do you want?

December 4, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

This week, the countdown starts for Britain to offer final answers, about the three Brexit prerequisites: the divorce alimony, the future of the 4.5 million European citizens who work on the wrong side of the English Channel and the Irish border. Only then will Brussels pass to the second phase of the talks, to discuss […]

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Britain offers more money for an orderly Brexit but the Irish question resurges

November 27, 2017 by Dennis Kefalakos Leave a Comment

If last Friday’s Reuters report from Brussels is correct and Theresa May and Donald Tusk agreed to solve the Brexit dead-end in ten days, then the wild Brexiteers must have retreated and the orderly exit side has won the first round. Tusk, the President of the European Council said in a tweet that he told […]

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