Brexit

Ireland Dusts Off Brexit Contingency Plans As Trade Tensions Mount

Irish government ministers have met to dust off contingency plans in case disagreements between Britain and the European Union trigger major trade disrupti...

UK Seems Set To Invoke Emergency Measures On Northern Ireland Trade: Irish Minister

"All the evidence now suggests that the British government are laying the foundations to trigger Article 16, and that of course is a worry," Iris...

Britain Will Not Trigger Article 16 Today: UK Brexit Negotiator

Britain will not trigger an emergency provision in its Brexit deal on Friday, its negotiator said on arriving for talks with the EU on trade across the Iri...

France, Britain Agree To More Talks On Fishing Row

European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said, "as long as dialogue seems possible ... we are giving it a chance... and with a requirement to see resu...

Cut Off From British Waters, French Fishermen Consider Selling Up

French fisherman Loic Fontaine is finalising a deal to sell his boat because, cut off after Brexit from access to British waters where French fleets tradit...

France Seizes British Fishing Boat In Deepening Post-Brexit Row

Britain on Thursday condemned France's 'disproportionate' seizure of a British fishing boat in French waters, marking a sharp deterioration in a row over p...

EU, UK Need To Be Given Time To Discuss Northern Ireland: Coveney

EU and British negotiators need to be given time to discuss possible changes to Northern Ireland's trading arrangements, Irish foreign minister Simon Coven...

Brexit And COVID Brew A Perfect Storm For Britain's Chicken Farmers

When Nigel Upson checks the plucked chicken carcasses dangling from a rotating line at his poultry plant in England, he sees cash haemorrhaging out of his...