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EU-UK strike Brexit deal: Timeline of events in Britain s exit from the European Union
EU-UK strike Brexit deal: Timeline of events in Britain s exit from the European Union
Britain and the European Union (EU) on Thursday struck a provisional Brexit free-trade agreement that should avert New Year chaos for cross-border traders and bring a measure of certainty for businesses after years of turmoil.
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File photo: Britain s former Prime Minister Theresa May, sitting below a painting of Britain s first PM Robert Walpole, signs the official letter to European Council President Donald Tusk. (AP photo)
A timeline of key events related to
MARCH 2017:
UK Prime Minister Theresa May triggers the EU’s exit clause, known as “Article 50”, setting a deadline of March 29, 2017, to complete Brexit talks.
JUNE 2017:
Theresa May’s snap general election fails to deliver a majority. It weakens her in Brexit talks and, worse again, leaves her dependent on ten Democratic Unionist Party MPs from Northern Ireland, who were the only party there to back “Leave”.
DECEMBER 2017:
Then-Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, and Foreign Affairs Minister, Simon Coveney, clinch a EU deal guaranteeing special trade status for Northern Ireland, keeping it inside the EU customs union and aligned to the single market. There will be no return of north-south border controls in Ireland. It’s a major Irish coup, dismaying many UK Brexiteers and Northern Unionists.
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Post-Brexit Trade Deal: Timeline of Events in Britain s Exit from the European Union
Britain s Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen inside 10 Downing Street in London on January 8, 2020. (Kirsty Wigglesworth/Pool via REUTERS/File)
Here s a timeline of key events related to Britain s decision to leave the European Union.
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The UK and EU on Thursday announced that they have struck a provisional trade agreement, just over a week before the year-end Brexit deadline. A timeline of key events related to Britain s decision to leave the European Union:
Jan. 23, 2013: British Prime Minister David Cameron promises a referendum on Britains membership in the EU if the Conservative Party wins the next general election. He does so to try to garner support among euroskeptics within his own party.