Commentary / World Mar 16, 2020
U.K. has advantage in trade talks with EU
by Kazuhito Yamashita
The EU member governments and commission bureaucrats will learn a hard lesson if they consider Britain easy to deal with.
Business Feb 26, 2020
U.K. wants same legal autonomy on trade from EU as Japan and Canada, Johnson's office says
Britain wants the European Union to show the same respect for legal autonomy it afforded countries such as Canada and Japan when signing trade deals with them, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's office said on Tuesday. Johnson's office said Britain was determined to protect its legal ...
Business Feb 25, 2020
Nissan warns about future of European plants as Brexit weighs
Nissan Motor Co. gave the starkest warning yet on the future of the Japanese group's car factories in Western Europe, with a plant in the U.K. threatened by Brexit and another in Spain suffering from a slump in demand. The Sunderland site in England, which ...
Commentary / World Feb 24, 2020
The end of the EU's Brexit bounce
by Mark Leonard
Negotiations over the future of U.K.-EU relations will divide Europeans and offer fodder to Euroskeptics
Business / Tech Feb 20, 2020
Google's British users will lose EU data protection, sources say
Google is planning to move its British users' accounts out of the control of European Union privacy regulators, placing them under U.S. jurisdiction instead, sources said. The shift, prompted by Britain's exit from the EU, will leave the sensitive personal information of tens of millions ...
World / Politics Feb 15, 2020
After Brexit 'game-changer,' Irish republican leader predicts unity vote in 3-5 years
Brexit is a "game-changer" that could trigger a referendum on Irish unification within three years, the leader of the nationalist Sinn Finn party said Saturday. "This isn't a one-off event, this is a game-changer," Mary Lou McDonald told The Times newspaper. "I think we have ...
World / Politics Feb 15, 2020
EU member nations to fight over huge new budget at Brussels summit
Brussels set the stage Friday for a fierce budget battle at the coming week's extraordinary EU summit, with a trillion-euro plan that meets no one's demands. The summit's host, European Council President Charles Michel, is seeking a compromise to clear a path to agreement on ...
Commentary / World Feb 11, 2020
by Bernard-henri Levy
While Britain has left Europe, Europeans should not abandon the British legacy — particularly the deep, historical commitment to liberalism.
Commentary / World Feb 10, 2020
What will happen in post-Brexit Britain?
by Kazuhito Yamashita
Britain's departure from the EU may reduce its influence in the global community, but in economic terms Brexit will not be an entirely bad deal.
Commentary / World Feb 10, 2020
The post-Brexit 'German question'
by Yoichi Funabashi
Brexit will influence the future direction of not only the U.K. but Europe as well, and it seems likely that it will alter the power balance between Germany and France in particular.
World / Politics Feb 7, 2020
The tiny village of Brunsmark, an hour outside Hamburg in the lush north German countryside, might seem an unlikely spot to suffer a sudden Brexit shock. But Britain's departure from the European Union means Iain Macnab, a Scotsman comfortably settled in the area for decades, ...
Commentary / Japan Feb 6, 2020
Japan-U.K. ties will go from strength to strength as Britain leaves the EU
by Paul Madden
Britain playing an even more active role in the Indo-Pacific region, and Japan will continue to be a particularly important partner.