Questions and answers about the Brexit<\/a><\/p>\nThe EU has said that the loan program will help boost the readiness of European defense as well as enable more coordinated support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Fishing rights<\/p>\n
The deal included a 12-year extension of an agreement allowing EU fishing vessels to operate in U.K. waters until 2038, which angered U.K. fishermen and their supporters.<\/p>\n
While economically minor, fishing has long been a sticking point and symbolically important issue for the U.K. and EU member states such as France. Disputes over the issue nearly derailed a Brexit deal back in 2020.<\/p>\n
Elspeth Macdonald, head of the Scottish Fishermen\u2019s Federation, called the agreement a \u201chorror show for Scottish fishermen\u201d that was granted in order to secure other objectives. Scottish First Minister John Swinney said the deal was \u201cthe direct opposite of what was promised by Brexit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Easing movement for young people<\/p>\n
Post-Brexit visa restrictions have hobbled cross-border activities for professionals such as bankers or lawyers, as well as academic and cultural exchanges, including touring bands.<\/p>\n
The U.K. and EU said they agreed to co-operate on a youth mobility plan that\u2019s expected to allow young Britons and Europeans to live and work temporarily in each other\u2019s territory, though no details were provided.<\/p>\n
British officials insisted that numbers would be capped and stays would be time-limited.<\/p>\n
The free movement of people remains a politically touchy issue in the U.K., with the youth mobility plan seen by some Brexiteers as inching back toward completely free movement for EU nationals to move to the U.K. The U.K. has similar youth mobility arrangements with countries including Australia and Canada.<\/p>\n
Cutting airport waits<\/p>\n
British passport holders will be able to use e-gates at more European airports as part of the deal.<\/p>\n
Since Brexit, many British travelers cannot use automated gates when they arrive at EU airports. The new measure will end \u201cthe dreaded queues at border control,\u201d officials said.<\/p>\n
Opposition objects to a \u2018surrender\u2019<\/p>\n
Britain\u2019s opposition parties have criticized Starmer\u2019s bid to reset relations with the EU. The pro-Brexit and anti-immigration Reform U.K. party, which recently won big in local elections, and the Conservatives have called the trade-offs in the deals a betrayal of Brexit.<\/p>\n
Starmer is \u201ctaking us backwards. We left the European Union. That was settled, we drew a line under that,\u201d said Badenoch, the Conservative leader. \u201cThis deal is taking us to the past and that is why we call it surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starmer stressed that he did not violate his \u201cred lines\u201d: The U.K. won\u2019t rejoin the EU\u2019s frictionless single market and customs union, and will not agree to the free movement of people between the U.K. and the EU.<\/p>\n
David Henig, a U.K. trade policy expert at the European Centre for International Political Economy, suggested that while some will continue to argue against agreeing to EU regulations, most Britons likely believe it\u2019s time to move forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cSimply following EU rules in some areas is going to be controversial to those who thought that Brexit means casting off all influence from the EU entirely,\u201d he said. \u201cThat wasn\u2019t realistic for a trading nation like the UK., where 50% of our trade is with the EU.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Britain and the European Union hailed a new chapter in their relationship Monday after sealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,285,712,7143,16,15,1764,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-115468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-politics","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-u-s-news","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom","19":"tag-wales","20":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114536868931460527","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}