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Businesses give a relieved welcome to the Brexit trade deal, but warn there is more work to be done.
Businesses give a relieved welcome to the Brexit trade deal, but warn there is more work to be done.
MPs are waiting to see the full text of the agreement ahead of a vote in Parliament on 30 December.
UK markets close for Christmas in upbeat mood, hours before the Brexit trade deal is announced.
Billionaire Ron Burkle reportedly buys the estate for a quarter of its initial asking price.
The country returns to stricter coronavirus restrictions on Christmas Eve until at least 12 January.
Nuro's autonomous vehicles will take to the streets as early as 2021.
Businesses give a relieved welcome to the Brexit trade deal, but warn there is more work to be done.
MPs are waiting to see the full text of the agreement ahead of a vote in Parliament on 30 December.
UK markets close for Christmas in upbeat mood, hours before the Brexit trade deal is announced.
Billionaire Ron Burkle reportedly buys the estate for a quarter of its initial asking price.
The country returns to stricter coronavirus restrictions on Christmas Eve until at least 12 January.
Nuro's autonomous vehicles will take to the streets as early as 2021.
MPs are waiting to see the full text of the agreement ahead of a vote in Parliament on 30 December.
UK markets close for Christmas in upbeat mood, hours before the Brexit trade deal is announced.
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A leading German liberal MP, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, is upbeat on the type of deal emerging, saying the key thing is to avoid numerous tariffs and quotas.
Some 30,000 German firms trade with the UK, he noted, and “some have really had beads of sweat on their brows”.
He told Deutschlandfunk radio that “it would be a good thing” if the negotiators really had agreed to keep EU-UK trade free of tariffs and quotas.
He also said “it appears European fishing crews have succeeded in retaining at least 75% of their current catch over the next five years, and of course that’s far more than the French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Belgians could have expected”.
He is foreign affairs spokesman for the Free Democrats (FDP) and a former Euro MP.
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