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AnatolyKasparov wrote:Winding down for Easter here are we?

US Speaker Nancy Pelosi warns against weakening peace deal

US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is due to begin an official visit to the Republic of Ireland later.

Speaking on the eve of her visit, she said there would be "no chance whatsoever" of a post-Brexit trade deal between the US and UK if there were any weakening of the Good Friday Agreement. (BBC News website)

PorFavor wrote:

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Winding down for Easter here are we?

No. I'm still a bit subdued over the Notre Dame fire. Strange how it's affected me. The Rennie Mackintosh fire\s had a similar effect but this one's a real blow - speaking as an atheist, too.

refitman wrote:Looks like it's going well for the the new Ukip candidate.

The Council today approved mandates for the Commission to open negotiations with the United States on two agreements:

a trade agreement limited to the elimination of tariffs for industrial goods only, excluding agricultural products;an agreement on conformity assessment that would have as its objective the removal of non-tariff barriers, by making it easier for companies to prove their products meet technical requirements both in the EU and the US while maintaining a high level of protection in the EU.
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The EU and the US have the largest and deepest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world and have highly integrated economies. Both economies account together for about half the entire world GDP and for nearly one third of total world trade.

AnatolyKasparov wrote:

refitman wrote:Looks like it's going well for the the new Ukip candidate.

You are going to have to elaborate there.......

tinybgoat wrote:"Trade with the United States: Council authorises negotiations on elimination of tariffs for industrial goods and on conformity assessment
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The Council today approved mandates for the Commission to open negotiations with the United States on two agreements:

a trade agreement limited to the elimination of tariffs for industrial goods only, excluding agricultural products;an agreement on conformity assessment that would have as its objective the removal of non-tariff barriers, by making it easier for companies to prove their products meet technical requirements both in the EU and the US while maintaining a high level of protection in the EU.
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The EU and the US have the largest and deepest bilateral trade and investment relationship in the world and have highly integrated economies. Both economies account together for about half the entire world GDP and for nearly one third of total world trade.

It's almost like they've tailored the wording for a specific audience..

Brexit talks with government are stalling, says Corbyn

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said talks with the government are stalling due to a Tory desire for post-Brexit deregulation including pursuing a US trade deal, a sign that the cordial tone of the negotiations is faltering.

“The government doesn’t appear to be shifting the red lines because they’ve got a big pressure in the Tory party that actually wants to turn this country into a deregulated low-tax society which will do a deal with Trump. I don’t want to do that,” he said. (Guardian)

Court castigates Home Office over misuse of immigration law

The appeal court has issued a damning judgment criticising the Home Office’s use of a terrorism-related paragraph of immigration law as “legally flawed” and ruling it must be changed.

The Guardian has repeatedly highlighted the Home Office’s use of the rule – designed in part to tackle terrorism – to refuse applications from hundreds of people for making legal amendments to their tax records.

But the wider impact of the judgment is the court’s finding that the “general approach [by the home secretary, Sajid Javid] in all earnings discrepancy cases [has been] legally flawed” and must change. Criticism of the Home Office’s use of the clause has become part of the wider debate over the “hostile environment” and a target-based culture that also gave rise to the Windrush scandal. (Guardian)

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Some suggestions that May will use the "threat" of Euro elections in a last ditch attempt to get her deal through the HoC.

This rather falls down on the fact that only the Tories are bothered about having them, plus the spectre of no deal has receded for now.

PorFavor wrote:

Brexit talks with government are stalling, says Corbyn

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said talks with the government are stalling due to a Tory desire for post-Brexit deregulation including pursuing a US trade deal, a sign that the cordial tone of the negotiations is faltering.

“The government doesn’t appear to be shifting the red lines because they’ve got a big pressure in the Tory party that actually wants to turn this country into a deregulated low-tax society which will do a deal with Trump. I don’t want to do that,” he said. (Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ays-corbyn