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BILL PEARSON Mon, 02/22/2021 - 8:00am The Boothbay Planning Board tabled a request Feb. 17 by Karen’s Hideway for a change of use. Co-owner Garry Blackman requested a change of use from a mobile takeout business to a year round eatery. Blackman operates the 716 Wiscasset Road business with his wife Karen Blackman. The planning board asked him to submit a letter requesting a waiver from providing several application information submissions. Blackman will send the letter to Code Enfor...

BRITAIN-EU/NETHERLANDS (UPDATE 1, PIX):FOCUS-How Amsterdam is stealing a march on rivals as Brexit trading hub

By Tommy Wilkes, Toby Sterling, Abhinav Ramnarayan and Huw Jones

How Amsterdam is stealing a march on rivals as Brexit trading hub By Tommy Wilkes, Toby Sterling, Abhinav Ramnarayan and Huw Jones Reuters AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) - All the talk was of Frankfurt or Paris luring Londons financial business as Britain peeled away from the EU. Yet it is Amsterdam that is proving the most visible early winner. Data last week showed the Dutch capital had displaced London as Europes biggest share trading centre in January, grabbing a fifth of the 40 billion eur...

All the talk was of Frankfurt or Paris luring London's financial business as Britain peeled away from the EU. Yet it is Amsterdam that is proving the most visible early winner.

LONDON has been overtaken by Amsterdam as Europes largest share trading centre - but trading volumes in the capital are still five times larger than the whole of the EU combined, a think tank has claimed.

Feb 15, 2021 London – As the new year made Brexit a reality, Tony Hale encountered the pitfalls of Europe’s redrawn political geography. Specifically, he confronted the need to extricate 53 tons of rotting pork products from administrative purgatory at a port in the Netherlands. For more than two decades, Hale’s company had shipped pork to the European Union without customs checks, as if the United Kingdom and the continent across the water were one vast country. With the U.K. no...

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Londons status as a financial centre isnt as secure as some might think Dan Davies © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Amer Ghazzal/REX/Shutterstock The past year of all our lives has been defined by people failing to understand exponential processes. It’s slightly worrying, then, to hear financial professionals in London saying the amount of business that’s shifted to European financial centres since Brexit is not that big. Nearly everything is small to begin with. Th...

The centre of Europe’s share trading has shifted to Amsterdam – this is a problem for London that is only going to grow, says economist Dan Davies