Brexit - Qué nos espera?

Largely silent for months, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson launched himself back into the Brexit debate late Friday night with a 4,000 word opus . The timing was questionable given it came a week before Prime Minister Theresa May outlines her own vision for the split and hours after she raised the nation’s threat level following another terrorist attack. Johnson painted a positive picture of what he called a “glorious” post-Brexit Britain, rejected the notion of paying for access to the single market and revived the much-criticized suggestion that the British could redirect £350 million a week toward the National Health Service. The personal manifesto may well shore up support among Tory grassroots who hadn’t heard much from him of late and who had recently begun looking elsewhere for future leadership candidates. It won the backing of the Sun newspaper, while Damian Green, effectively May’s No. 2, said it won’t cost Johnson his job. But there was still quite a bac...

El ministro británico estima que la salida ahorraría a Londres 400 millones que irían a sanidad El ministro Johnson abandona Downing Street, este viernes en Londres.  El ministro de Exteriores británico, Boris Johnson, ha vuelto a repetir la controvertida cifra de 350 millones de libras (395 millones de euros) semanales que el Reino Unido podrá ahorrarse una vez materializado el Brexit, mencionada durante la campaña para el referéndum europeo de 2016. En un artículo publicado hoy en el diario The Daily Telegraph , Johnson señala que esa cantidad podría ser utilizada para mejorar el Servicio Nacional de Salud (NHS, siglas en inglés), si bien la cifra fue cuestionada por falta de exactitud después de la consulta en la que los británicos votaron a favor del Brexit, su salida de la Unión Europea (UE). MÁS INFORMACIÓN Las dudas de May con el ‘Brexit’ disparan el malestar en Reino Unido "Sería bueno si gran cantidad de ese dinero fuera para el NHS", indica el...

Brexit is no longer the Bank of England’s biggest concern. The bank’s monetary policy committee, led by Governor Mark Carney, reacted to accelerating inflation by declaring on Thursday that “some withdrawal of monetary stimulus was likely to be appropriate over the coming months.” Investors are now anticipating action as soon as the next meeting in November, regardless of any overhanging cloud from the U.K.’s exit from the European Union, which the bank expects to slow the economy. It’s been over a decade since the BOE last raised rates and for most of the past year it has come under fire from Brexit supporters for highlighting the economic risks of the split. It again warned on Thursday that the divorce poses a challenge to the outlook. The uncertainty may not be sufficient to stay the BOE’s hand, though. By one measure, the odds on a hike by November have risen to more than 60 percent from 40 percent earlier on Thursday. A rate rise is fully priced in for February 2...

A estas alturas todo nos debería ser inmensamente familiar. Primero, hagámonos con un lote de políticos irresponsables y oportunistas. Allí un David Cameron y un partido conservador dividido que usa la UE para eliminar al adversario. Aquí la élite política corrupta de Convergència que se arroja en brazos de una causa liderada por radicales para reconquistar el favor perdido de la ciudadanía. Luego pervirtamos el lenguaje. Allí Bruselas nos ahoga, aquí Espanya nos roba. Allí rescatar la soberanía del Parlamento, aquí el Parlament no está sujeto a la ley, solo a sí mismo. Allí vamos a recuperar el control, aquí vamos a autoconcedernos el derecho de autodeterminación. Allí fuera de la UE seremos más fuertes, aquí fuera de Espanya seremos ricos y felices. Continuemos con unas mentiras sobre el día después. Para ello contemos con el apoyo, allí, de una prensa sensacionalista que desprecia los hechos, aquí con unos medios públicos controlados desde la Generalitat. Resultado: hagam...

Theresa May will next week take her Brexit charm offensive to Europe’s onetime center of trade. The British prime minister will go to Florence on Sept. 22 to deliver a much-anticipated speech aimed at outlining what her office called the “close ties” she wants the U.K to enjoy with the European Union beyond Brexit. Stung by June’s election flop, May will likely use the occasion to recast her Brexit strategy. Her team increasingly talks of wanting a transitional period that mirrors as far as possible the U.K.’s current trading relationship with the EU. Having postponed their next round of talks to give May time to speak, though, EU officials will be looking for specifics, especially on how the U.K. plans to approach the financial settlement they want it to make. But the prime minister could be reluctant to give details on such a contentious subject just two weeks before she has to appear at her Conservative Party’s annual conference. May’s government is taking a gentle...

El Parlamento da luz verde a una gran ley que transplantará miles de normas europeas a la legislación británica para evitar un vacío de poder tras la salida de la Unión Europea. Amparo Polo. Londres. El Mundo. El Parlamento británico dio ayer luz verde al mayor cambio legislativo de la historia reciente de Reino Unido al aprobar una ley que pondrá fin a la supremacía de las leyes de la Unión Europea (vigentes desde hace más de cuarenta años) y dará prioridad a la legislación británica una vez finalizado el Brexit. La Gran Ley Derogatoria, como se conoce, fue aprobada por una mayoría de 36 votos (326 a favor y 290 en contra), gracias al apoyo del partido Unionista de Irlanda del Norte al partido Conservador, que gobierna sin mayoría absoluta. La ley dejará sin efecto el Acta de las Comunidades Europeas de 1972, que permitió entrar a Reino Unido en la llamada entonces Comunidad Económica Europea. Al mismo tiempo, unas 12.000 leyes europeas serán convertidas en leye...

Theresa May’s Brexit strategy remains on track—for now . In a vote after midnight, lawmakers voted 326 to 290 to let the prime minister’s Brexit law advance. The government won after promising to discuss critics’ concerns before they have to vote again, and to consider allowing more time for the next stage of debates. The Brexit bill will formally end Britain’s EU membership and overturn the supremacy of European law in the country. It is controversial because it hands sweeping powers to ministers to change legislation as they see fit, without full scrutiny in Parliament. “Parliament took a historic decision to back the will of the British people,” May said. The bill will give “certainty and clarity” ahead of Brexit and lawmakers “from all parts of the U.K.” should “work together in support of this vital piece of legislation.” Helpfully for May, some Labour Party politicians indicated they would disobey their leader Jeremy Corbyn’s orders to vote against the bill. But ...