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Theresa May today faces fresh pressure over her plans to deal with the Northern Irish border post-Brexit after Ireland’s European Commissioner urged her to change course. Phil Hogan said the problems around the border – one of the key obstacles blocking talks on a UK-EU trade deal after the country leaves the bloc – could […]

The New European’s editor-at-large on why his passionately anti-Brexit stance stems from a love of Britain Say what you like about Nigel Farage, but old Frogface sure has chutzpah. I mean there he is, waves from an alleged conspiracy about the funding and running of the Brexit campaign starting to lap over his tootsies, up […]

The UK and European Union’s plans to share out quotas for cheap food imports from countries around the world after Brexit have come under fire from Australia. The UK and EU’s plans to share out quotas for cheap food imports from countries around the world after Brexit have come under fire from Australia. Restrictions on […]

Why is MP and Brexiteer John Redwood advising readers to ‘Sell Britain’, despite claiming to have full confidence in the process? A few weeks ago, a small controversy raged online, one that deserves to be better known than it is. We can call it: ‘The Mystery of The Two John Redwoods’. At first there seemed […]

Christopher Chandler correction: In an article headlined ‘Who is hacking Brexit? And why we need our own Robert Mueller inquiry’ published on 25 November 2017, our columnist, Liam Byrne MP, claimed that Mr Christopher Chandler had ‘helped to lead a boardroom coup to emplace Alexey Miller, Putin’s deputy from St Petersburg days, as head of […]

Only 11% of the public believe the UK should leave the European Union without a deal, according to a new survey. But the same poll found that a ‘no deal’ outcome was viewed as the most likely result of ongoing Brexit talks – with 17% saying this was what they expected, compared to 16% who […]

The Prime Minister has been handed a Brexit deadline to get her deal in order or face a trade talk stalemate. European Council president Donald Tusk said Theresa May faces a ‘huge challenge’ but must make significant progress on the divorce bill and the Irish border issues if she wants to start trade talks. May […]

Dublin has intensified the pressure on Number 10 declaring Brexit will not progress until an agreement about the border is struck. Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told Theresa May he needs fresh assurances that a hard border will not return between Northern Ireland and the Republic post-Brexit. A Number 10 spokesman said the UK continued to look […]

A Tory MP has been accused of not taking concerns about Brexit seriously after his letter response to a constituent still contained ‘add Bob’s comments here’ at the bottom of the reply. https://twitter.com/DiamondHell/status/933966496782606337 Robert Seely, the Tory MP for the Isle of Wight, is said to have made the gaffe in a response to Twitter […]

I didn’t get much from my Twitter spat with Kylie Minogue’s songwriter, but his famous lyrics certainly sum up the mindset of Brexiteers. I won’t lie to you; this hasn’t been an easy gig this week. I don’t necessarily regard it as being my responsibility to put a comical spin on events in every issue, […]

Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have launched an audacious bid to steer Britain away from European Union regulations. The Brexit brothers – who have patched up their differences after an almighty fall out over the race to replace David Cameron – are claiming victory in convincing the Prime Minister to shift away from EU law […]

Theresa May has issued a fresh plea for European Union leaders to move onto the “next stage” in the Brexit negotiations. Arriving in Brussels for the EU Eastern Partnership summit, the Prime Minister said the EU and the UK needed to “step forward together” in the ongoing talks. She confirmed she will be meeting European […]

Another week on Planet Brexit and another podcast has landed. This week Richard Porritt and Steve Anglesey delve deep into Philip Hammond’s red box, discuss the Prime Minister’s looming divorce bill offer and ask the age-old question: ‘Does anyone love The Beautiful South enough to consider them their favourite band?’ Some common names are in […]

MICHAEL WHITE on how a brief moment of common sense was engulfed by intransigence of the leavers It must have been a coincidence. But on near-adjacent pages last Saturday’s Times carried high-minded visions of the Brexit process from two cerebral Conservatives who ought to have much in common, but currently don’t. As such their views […]

STEVE ANGLESEY counts down the worst Brexiteers of the week 10 Stella Fellas No-one is suggesting that Brexiteers are desperate for some good news, but Daily Telegraph chief political correspondent Christopher Hope appeared to have caught a glimpse of those famous sunlit uplands when he excitedly tweeted ‘Stella is now selling beer in pint cans. […]

From losing seven attempts at becoming an MP to computer illiteracy – these are the 48 things you should know about the former UKIP leader. 1) Born on April 3, 1964, Nigel Farage is younger than Johnny Depp and Brad Pitt. 2) In 2014 Farage claimed: ‘I don’t think I know anyone in politics who’s […]

The UK face “chaos” unless it is properly prepared for all potential Brexit outcomes, Chancellor Philip Hammond said today after he used his Budget to set aside a £3bn war chest to cope with leaving the EU. Mr Hammond said Brexit preparations were “not an optional piece of expenditure” and it was an “absolute obligation” […]

Treat yourself or a Remainer in your life to a subscription this Christmas… The New European makes the perfect gift for the Remainer in your life! Subscribe today and you’ll also receive a set of our exclusive Christmas cards – the set contains 12 cards of six exclusive designs from the likes of Gary Barker, […]

A look at the week’s big stories, including a riddle over Jeremy Corbyn’s name, the fresh-faced new mayor of Lübeck and France’s averted butter crisis Angela Merkel’s domestic discomfort has been the source of some schadenfreude for the Brexit brigade with Jacob Rees-Mogg, predictably, among those suggesting it could give the UK some handy leverage […]

MPs will finish their line-by-line assessment of key Brexit legislation by Christmas, Commons leader Andrea Leadsom said today. The Commons leader and arch-Brexiteer said the eighth and final day of the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill’s committee stage will be December 20 – the penultimate sitting day before the Christmas recess. The Bill, which seeks to […]

Here is a flavour of some of the recent letters we’ve received in The New European’s mailbag. Send your letters for publication to letters@theneweuropean.co.uk Boris Johnson blunders over Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, with potentially horrific consequences. Boris then appears before the House of Commons but declines to apologise. Michael Gove appears on TV to defend Boris but […]

Philip Hammond attempted to challenge his image as a grey spreadsheet obsessive in his Budget speech with a string of jokes. So how did he do? The Chancellor peppered his annual speech on the nation’s finances with a number of one-liners. We put them all in one place so you can avoid the dull bits… […]

A Brexit war chest of at least £3bn has been set aside to prepare the UK for the prospect of failing to secure a deal with Brussels. Hard Brexiteers have put pressure on Chancellor Philip Hammond to commit money to preparations for a “no deal” scenario to show the European Union that the UK is […]

Tory former cabinet minister Nicky Morgan has warned Chancellor Philip Hammond to guard against a march to “economic nationalism” under the banner of Brexit. Speaking after Mr Hammond delivered his Budget, the Treasury Select Committee Chair warned that post-Brexit, the UK needed to retain its commitment to “openness, trade, investment and migration”. She said the […]

News is too big a responsibility for billionaire owners to bear. Last week, following the revelation that Disney had been in discussions to buy much of 21st Century Fox, there was speculation that the wider Murdoch media empire might not stick around too much longer. Lost among the noise was a deeper discussion about ownership […]

Recent events in the Middle East risk tipping the region into fresh violence. BRAD BLITZ joins the dots between alarming developments in Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Israel and Iran to explain In recent weeks, Western media reporting on the Middle East has concentrated on the dramatic assertion of power by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, […]

The UK government is failing to offer credible answers to the “hard questions” about the fate of the border post-Brexit, the Irish foreign minister has said. Simon Coveney rejected suggestions by Brexiteers that politicians in Dublin and Brussels were seeking to exploit the uncertainty over Northern Ireland’s position to strengthen the EU’s hand in the […]

Brexit Secretary David Davis today warned there was a possibility of the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal – before falling off the stage himself. The arch-Brexiteer said a trade deal was the most likely outcome of the divorce talks, but added that the government was prepared to leave without a deal. […]

France might be rugby league minnows – as their World Cup campaign has demonstrated – but, as MICK O’HARE explains, the sport in the country has had to fight for its very survival You don’t need to know much about rugby to know that the two codes of the game – rugby league and rugby […]

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A quarter of a century on from its devastating war, Bosnia and Herzegovina remains as divided as ever. PETER GEOGHEGAN asks whether a failure to overcome the tensions of the past could drag it back to partition and violence once more Tarik Calkic’s old secondary school in western Bosnian has not changed much since he […]

Up to 1,000 jobs are being relocated as a direct result of Brexit. The European Banking Authority (EBA) is to be moved from London to Paris after Brexit, it has been announced. The French capital beat off stiff competition to win the key agency in a victory Paris will view as a boost to its […]