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Created with Sketch. Debenhams has been forced to close its online business in Ireland to avoid the cost of tariffs which are now required under the trade deal agreed between the UK and the EU. The Debenhams.ie website was taken offline on Christmas Eve as the Trade and Cooperation Agreement was published. Customers were informed that it is no longer possible for Debenhams to deliver orders to the Republic of Ireland "due to uncertainty around post-Brexit trade rules". Debenhams is not alone. ...

Last modified on Mon 28 Dec 2020 23.37 EST Experts are still poring over the 1,246-page Brexit trade deal, but the devil is always in the detail. Dozens of UK-EU committees overseeing all aspects of the deal will now have to be set up, committing the UK and the EU to semi-permanent Brexit negotiations. New business travel rules will mean fashion models and musicians may need work visas for Europe. And the economic damage from restoring trade barriers previously demolished could be felt for year...

Invalid Date, BORIS Johnson hailed "glad tidings of great joy" in a Christmas message last night after sealing his £660billion Brexit trade deal. The PM gave the nation an early Christmas present yesterday as he secured a historic agreement which finally sees the UK take back control from the EU and ends four years of bitter wrangling. Follow our UK politics live blog for the very latest news and updates... 14 Boris Johnson last night joked he had a small present for anyone who may be looking...

BORIS JOHNSON will be able to boast a victory in the post-Brexit trade talks, claiming to have won 28 key battles compared with Brussels 11 triumphs, a leaked Government document says.

Brinkmanship or Bluster? On Brexit and Pandemic, Boris Johnson Leaves It Late Critics say the British prime minister’s penchant for last-minute decisions has complicated the handling of the coronavirus and narrowed the window for scrutiny of any trade deal with the E.U. Prime Minister Boris Johnson suddenly changed his mind recently about relaxing virus rules over Christmas, the latest in a string of course changes on the pandemic.Credit...Tolga Akmen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Pub...

Ireland cant hope to avoid the pitfalls of Brexit Independent.ie 19/12/2020 Sarah Collins EU chief negotiator Michel Barnier speaks during a debate on future relation between the EU and UK at a plenary session of the European Parliament in Brussels on December 18, 2020. (Photo by Olivier HOSLET / POOL / AFP) (Photo by OLIVIER HOSLET/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) With EU-UK trade talks into yet another make-or-break weekend, the future economic pitfalls of Brexit outweigh the mor...

A Brexit deal would be the first of many Those wanting Brexit to be over and done with on January 1 are set for disappointment, as it will require endless decisions and trade-offs. Therese Raphael Share Only a handful of people are privy to whats going on inside the “tunnel” of the European Union-Britain trade talks. But the softening of political rhetoric since Sunday suggests negotiators have achieved a breakthrough of sorts on the question of maintaining a level playing field on post-Bre...

1 British government Brexit information campaign sign along the M25 highway near Westerham, in Kent, southern England.(Photo: Reuters) LONDON: Only a handful of people are privy to what is going on inside the “tunnel” of European Union-UK trade talks. But the softening of political rhetoric since Sunday suggests negotiators have achieved a breakthrough of sorts on the question of maintaining a level playing field on post-Brexit trade rules, one of the three big thin...

British Sovereignty Means Free Will, Not a Free Lunch This content was published on December 16, 2020 - 05:00 December 16, 2020 - 05:00 (Bloomberg Opinion) -- Only a handful of people are privy to what’s going on inside the “tunnel” of European Union-U.K. trade talks. But the softening of political rhetoric since Sunday suggests negotiators have achieved a breakthrough of sorts on the question of maintaining a level playing field on post-Brexit trade rules, one of the three big things di...

Ireland faces a Brexit day of reckoning – deal or no deal Despite Dublin’s lucrative ‘leprechaun economics’, the country will face a severe test in the new year 13 December 2020 • 6:00pm Irish farmers are not rich by any stretch of the imagination. The country’s 160,000 toilers on the land earn just €20,000 (£18,000) a year on average, according to Tim Cullinan, president of the Irish Farmers’ Association. If Brussels and the UK finally fail to come to terms on a Brexit deal, ...