Gary Gibbon
The presentation that followed included a walkthrough of the app which the government hopes will make registering a wish to stay in the UK a straightforward and painless experience for EU citizens. It is an Android app and so not compatible with Apple technology. I’m told the officials said that if you only have an iPhone you could borrow another device from a friend.
Gary Gibbon
The message from some Brexiteers is that Mrs May shouldn’t assume their support in all circumstances. They have the numbers to bring down the government, the argument runs, and they would do just that if they thought Brexit was being watered down beyond recognition.
A Brexit campaigner has told Channel 4 News that Vote Leave cheated in the 2016 referendum by over-spending. But the prime minister’s political secretary says the allegations are “factually incorrect and misleading”, and outs the accuser as gay.
Rallies have taken place across Slovakia again today to honour an investigative journalist who was murdered along with his girlfriend at the weekend. Jan Kusiak had been working on a report about a a group of Italian businessmen based in Slovakia, including allegations that they were connected to a powerful organised crime syndicate in Italy,…
Gary Gibbon
Talking to some EU sources, you sense that they think Mrs May has gone through the motions of acknowledging the downsides of her red lines and then repeated her previous attempt to have cake and eat it anyway.
Gary Gibbon
Those around Theresa May are now hopeful that they can kick the draft treaty down the tracks just as they did the original Joint Report on Article 50.
The environment secretary, Michael Gove, has argued with a top EU official over proposals to ban plastic drinking straws. He suggested the EU was holding back UK ambitions to ban them, but Frans Timmermans responded by claiming the EU was actually “one step ahead”. So what’s the truth?
The European Court of Justice has ruled that ride-hailing firm Uber is officially a transport company and not a digital service. Uber had previously argued it was a technology service enabling people to contact each other, rather than a cab company. Andre Spicer, professor of organisational behaviour at Cass Business School, and Benita Matofska, founder of The People…
Immigration officers say they have smashed one of Europe’s most extensive human smuggling networks. A co-ordinated series of raids has led to 11 arrests in the UK and a further 15 in Bulgaria and Belgium. The gangs allegedly used specially adapted vehicles to transport people across Europe. Most of the 400 smuggled migrants were from…
Gary Gibbon
Many here in Brussels are under no illusions how difficult it could be for Theresa May to deliver what they are asking for.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May has gone with some kind of sweetener on EU citizens’ rights which she hopes will break the impasse.
Theresa May tried to bat away questions about Cabinet divisions on Brexit in a press conference in Ottawa but those divides are real and potentially lethal.
Gary Gibbon
Theresa May’s expected speech on Brexit could be “very significant”. What would she have to say to unblock the impasse in the Brexit negotiations?
Gary Gibbon
Money is at the heart of the “stressful” Brexit negotiations in Brussels. But if the talks are going to progress one side will have to blink.
Extreme weather is one of the biggest global threats to human health, scientists have warned.