Scarlett Spencer: Das Ende?
"With our departure, the European Union has lost of its biggest contributors to its budget and no one is willing to foot the bill."
"With our departure, the European Union has lost of its biggest contributors to its budget and no one is willing to foot the bill."
"Taking the “level playing field” agenda as a whole therefore, we can see how dangerously broad and elastic the concept can be."
"... everyone may ... get ... those funny ideas the Brits had in 2016."
"Countries like Sweden never ordered lockdowns and are experiencing no higher rates of infection and death than nations that did. It’s the same with the seven states that never ordered lockdowns – Arkansas, North and South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska and Iowa."
"In the awful chronology of Theresa May’s humiliating negotiations, the EU’s Transition demands stand out as the point when it made clear its intention to dictate rather than negotiate."
"Thanks to Merkel holding the line on debt mutualization and EU fiscal integration ... CDU is now polling at levels it hasn’t enjoyed since before the last general election in 2017."
"Establishing a just and equitable distribution of mutually raised funds to bail out private sectors across borders will be politically almost impossible."
"...this decision shows the unfortunate tendency of EU law to judicialise questions that should not be judicialised..."
"...he embarks in negotiations with a superstructure nearing dislocation."
"The dithering response by the EU and its belated nation-based reactions could turn out to be a fatal political incompetence with consequences of huge death toll and ruinous economic impact."
"... following the transition period, tourists will be allowed to travel to the EU for 90 days out of 180 without a visa."
"From Denmark to Slovakia, governments went into aggressive virus-fighting mode with border closings."
"Today, the ECB is powerless to stop this. They don’t have the tools nor the expertise. And they won’t even after they get the reforms they believe they need. It is bankrupt now and it will need external help to survive."
"Old enmities and prejudices have not been stamped out under the boot heel of oppressive legislation coming from a bunch of disconnected technocrats in Brussels. They have only been suppressed."
"It would be difficult to prevent both Paris and Berlin from using the E3 format as part of their own struggle for power against other EU member states."
"Boris might be well-advised to amend the Extradition Act 2003, which enables EAWs to be applied in the UK, before November."
"It is quite shocking that the new German president of the European Commission calls for zero dumping, when her own country is one of the world’s biggest dumpers of goods onto world markets."
"If Greece did become like a real country and actually protect its borders it would be demonized by Brussels, but then again, so what?"
"Now that we are exiting the EU, the time has surely come when we should reform the terms of the EAW, or any extradition warrant, so that the receiving British court may examine the evidence already gathered against the suspect, assess it, and if it thinks it is manifestly insufficient, refuse the extradition request. "
"We can now introduce our own welfare standards, to stop live animal exports, and revive local slaughterhouses, with strict inspection regimes."
"There are still resistant elements in our midst, which foreign opposition could rely on to frustrate our exit from the European Union. It is clear that lessons have been learned; lines have been redrawn in preparation for an invisible warfare, an insidious confrontation with those opposed to Brexit both domestically and internationally."
"It really is time to walk away from this increasingly ludicrous institution."
"It’s ironic that while UK Remainers agonise endlessly over the supposed disastrous effects of the UK breaking away from the EU’s trade and regulatory system, the EU Commission appears to fear the precise opposite – that such a breakaway will allow a more nimble UK to thrive and leave the EU in its wake, and that such an outcome might encourage other member states to follow the UK out of the door."
"...during his short and successful tenure as Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williamson announced the sensible decision that three of the lower specification Batch 1 OPVs would be kept on in service in anticipation of our leaving the EU."