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I was watching this historical documentary, and i have a really hard time understanding how the british managed to colonize such a big part of the world.
So it looks like the EU is the first to decide they can break the Northern Ireland protocol, definitely a case of double standards when they fumed about the UK government bringing in a law allowing them to change the protocol if needed.
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Even the remainer BBC have had their say, Ms Adler:
"Mistake," "misjudgement," "blunder."
These are just some of words EU insiders have been using privately to describe the European Commission's initial decision on Friday to suspend areas of the Brexit deal dealing with Northern Ireland, a part of its Covid vaccine row.
Although it then U-turned on those plans, critics say the damage was already done.
Brussels previously lectured the UK government about respecting the Irish Protocol - which was painfully and carefully drafted during Brexit negotiations.
Now the EU seemed quick to undermine the agreement.
Member state Ireland felt stung that it hadn't been consulted. This all adds to the impression of chaos surrounding the EU's vaccine rollout.
Brussels was already under fire from a growing number of EU countries for having been slow to sign vaccine contracts with pharmaceutical companies.
This "mishap" over the Irish Protocol, as Spain's Foreign Minister called it, hasn't exactly helped the commission's reputation.
If the EU were a casino, it'd have a 1668/JAZ 'license'.There's been a swift U-turn on this from the EU although I'm not convinced it was an 'error'.
It's a serious misstep from the EU and in a situation that was already pretty fractious, has only made things worse.
At a time when we need to start trying to build trust and co-operating, this is the last thing anyone needed.
Hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come but I'm not overly optimistic.
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Ahhh yes, trading in Swiss stocks on the London Stock Exchange to help make already very wealthy people even wealthier, exactly what the people in Mansfield who voted to leave the EU were hoping for.
Sounds like some good news for the city
In the meantime, this is what's happening right now.
These people don't care about potential free trade agreements with India in two or three or five years time.
They're going bankrupt now, they'll be finished within a few weeks or months. British businesses, British jobs, lost to Brexit.
Not a UK specific rule. Not a ban on UK imports specifically. Just another of these third country rules that we were hoping we would be able to avoid but didn't manage.
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Shows up for me in the list as normal.
Have you hit the 'Unwatch' button or something?
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"However, last week, the Commission gave us sight of instructions they had sent to all Member States on 3 February stating that any imports into the EU from the UK of Live Bivalve Molluscs for purification from Class B waters, such as the sea around Wales and the South West of England, are not permitted
It is in the EU’s interests to restore this trade; many businesses in the EU have invested in depuration equipment and are configured around managing the export of molluscs from Class B waters."
Sounds more like the EU is shooting it's citizens and businesses in the foot again in order just to be awkward; no brexit deal could ever fully anticipate either the EU's tricks/bad faith or rule changes.