Quiet New Year gives breathing room after U.K.-EU Brexit split
LONDON -- A steady trickle of trucks rolled off ferries and trains on both sides of the English Channel on Friday, a quiet New Year's Day after a seismic overnight shift in relations between the European Union and Britain. The busy goods route between southeast England and northwest France is on the front line of changes now that the U.K. has fully left the economic embrace of the 27-nation bloc, the final stage of Brexit. “For the majority of trucks, they won't even notice the difference,” said John Keefe, spokesman for Eurotunnel, which carries vehicles under the Channel. “Ther...
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