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Brexit
Brexit news continues as the UK plans come into place, with effects on nearly all areas of regulation as the UK separates from the EU. From the very beginning, MLex has had its finger on the pulse of Brexit and the potential implications to the global regulatory environment. With the ever-changing developments, count on MLex to help you understand the governmental, judicial and regulatory actions related to Brexit—and how they impact commercial activity of those operating in the UK and abroad. The selected stories below represent some of the latest Brexit reporting from our investigative journalists in London and Brussels.
Recent Brexit articles
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The appointment of Tony Abbott, a former Australian prime minister, to a UK government trade-advisory body has sparked controversy. -
The nomination of Ireland’s Mairead McGuinness to be EU financial services commissioner is unlikely to derail the bloc’s major political goals. -
At midnight tonight — Brussels time, naturally — the UK will formally leave the EU and the easy part will be done. -
Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon is an instrument of destruction. Courtesy of the EU's exit clause, the UK's membership of the bloc will end at 23:00 GMT today, and the laws underpinning supply chains, diplomatic clout and individual rights accumulated over years will be scythed clean through. -
The UK government bailout of Flybe, which has drawn a state aid complaint to the European Commission from rival IAG, comes just as the EU digs in its heels on keeping the UK tied to the bloc's "level playing field" rules in future. -
On Oct. 22, in yet another day of Brexit high drama in the House of Commons, UK lawmakers torpedoed Boris Johnson's plan to ratify the exit deal sealed in Brussels the previous week. They blew the Conservative leader's "do or die" Oct. 31 deadline out of the water, and set the course for a general election. -
The UK won't be pushed into softening its Brexit plans and will seek a "Canada-style" free-trade agreement with no obligation to follow EU rulemaking, a spokesman for Prime Minister Boris Johnson insisted on Monday, 16 December. -
Boris Johnson’s big win in his revised Brexit deal was shifting the UK-wide “level playing field” commitments — covering labor, environmental, tax and competition law — from the binding withdrawal treaty into the aspirational political declaration. -
Boris Johnson came to power after convincing Conservative Party members that, Houdini-like, he could slip off the shackles that bound his predecessor and leap free from the EU on Oct. 31, deal or no deal. -
While the UK prime minister's comprehensive Supreme Court defeat over Parliament's suspension is occupying today's headlines, it is worth looking beyond them at the unflattering light the case shines on the drive to ready legislation needed for Brexit. -
No-deal Brexit will hamper SFO’s crime-fighting ability -
Brexit has devoured two British prime ministers and is chewing up a third. The two main political parties have been sent into meltdown, relations between the UK's constituent countries strained, and the conventions of parliament bent to breaking point.
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UK consumers could be sold counterfeit goods and the government could lose out on millions of pounds’ worth of tariffs due to an increase in smuggling after Brexit, a top EU official has said. -
The UK government insists it’s ramping up advice for businesses to get them through a no-deal Brexit at the end of October. But companies looking for financial support to cushion the blow have little guidance to go on, as the post-exit rulebook on state aid remains in limbo. -
UK farmers and fishermen exposed to a no-deal Brexit face heightened uncertainty after Boris Johnson’s office said he would push ahead with the planned Oct. 31 departure without key domestic legislation in place. -
All would-be British prime ministers need a backstory. They don’t often involve antitrust reform. -
A UK drive to replicate hundreds of EU sanctions listings on foreign states, warlords and terrorist groups ahead of Brexit will be fertile territory for judicial review in the British courts, opening the potential for divergence with the rest of the bloc. -
EU leaders aren’t bluffing about withholding a Brexit extension, judging by recent comments from continental business leaders who fear a delay could be more harmful to them than a no-deal exit in nine days' time.
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No-deal Brexit contingency plans will temporarily maintain basic air and road traffic with the UK, citizens’ rights protections and legal certainty for ship operators, EU lawmakers decided in Strasbourg today. -
The UK’s plan not to introduce any customs checks on the Irish border in the event of a no-deal Brexit ‘raises concerns’ for the EU, which will check it against World Trade Organization rules, the bloc’s top spokesperson has said. -
The EU has taken a hard line over data transfers if the UK leaves the bloc without a deal on March 29: It has been clear that it won’t grant the UK an "adequacy" decision to permit free flows of personal information. -
Theresa May and EU leaders have discussed the “legal and procedural context” of a possible Brexit delay, European Council President Donald Tusk has said. -
If Britons wake up to a no-deal Brexit on Saturday March 30, the UK government risks being engulfed by twin crises that both sides’ contingency planning has failed to cover. -
For more than two years, Theresa May has governed by euphemism. She’s told one half of her party that the UK intends to leave the EU’s customs union, while asking the EU to replicate its main features for the sake of manufacturers that rely on cross-border supply chains. -
Delaying the Brexit deadline isn’t an option that the UK government should take for granted. -
Could UK supermarkets and the food industry cope with the likely chaos and supply blockages at seaports and the Channel Tunnel in the event of a no-deal Brexit? -
The rights of British citizens living in the EU after a no-deal Brexit could be decided by the European Commission rather than by national governments, MLex has learned. -
The negotiations over the UK’s withdrawal treaty are all but over. But in Brussels, a second Brexit negotiation is continuing at pace. -
UK airlines could be controlled by foreign investors after Brexit, under government plans to scrap EU rules that restrict the ownership and control of carriers by nationality. -
The UK’s proposal to split its import quotas from those of the EU after Brexit has drawn an official objection from Russia at the World Trade Organization, MLex has learned. -
A no-deal Brexit won’t bring the freedoms that some UK lawmakers imagine.