Ten years on, Brexit disputes still hold back Britain's reconciliation with EU (www.reuters.com)
from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 22 Jun 10:41
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Ten years on from Britain’s shock vote to leave the European Union, much of the rancour and vitriol between London and Brussels has gone. But the tensions that drove the historic rupture - over immigration and ideology - remain.

Compounding that, the sides are now limited in how far they can go in rebuilding ties due to the advance of populist and far-right parties in Britain, France and Germany, despite the much more volatile world that confronts them today.

Britain finally left the world’s biggest trading ‌bloc an hour before midnight on December 31, 2020, bringing to an end an often turbulent 47-year membership.

Since then, Britain’s economy is widely accepted to have been damaged, it is in the grip of the highest prime ministerial turnover in nearly two centuries and the few gains from Brexit - from bespoke trade deals to regulatory independence over financial services and artificial intelligence - are not felt by many.

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