Brexit: companies and expatriates worried about uncertainties
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An agreement between Britain and the European Union was due to be ratified in 2020 to avoid a no-deal Brexit and economic disruption at the end of the year.
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By: Léa-Lisa Westerhoff Follow
22 min
Fifteen days before the date of the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union, the free trade agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom is still pending.
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The days "
to come will be decisive
" said the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, today.
But the issue of fishing remains an important sticking point between negotiators.
Ireland, which is part of the European Union, is a concentrate of Post Brexit issues.
On January 1, the customs border will thus be placed between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
And if the negotiators in Brussels have found an agreement in principle so that foodstuffs between the two islands can continue to circulate, the Northern Irish fear supply difficulties from next month and an additional blow to their economy.
The report in Belfast by our correspondent,
Emeline Vin.
The anguish of expats
There are companies, importers, exporters, which are primarily concerned by this exit of Great Britain from the customs union, but not only!
For the English who live in France or the French in England, this divorce is particularly painful.
Lise Verbeke
met a Frenchwoman who chose to return to her country of origin, and a Frenchman who will stay in London.
Chronicle in a nutshell: special year, special year word
With this unprecedented pandemic, 2020 will definitely not have been a normal year.
Even the famous Oxford dictionary recognizes this.
Each year, he chooses the word of the year, but this time, impossible to decide.
Marie Billon
explains why.
A graphic novel about the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Twenty-five years ago, the Dayton Peace Accords ended the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
A war whose incredible ethnic violence has deeply marked the European continent.
This war is told in a very personal way in a graphic novel written by Estelle Dumas:
Des bombes et des hommes.
Etienne Bouche
met her for us.
Bombs and Men,
published by Futuropolis.
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