Four options for UK trade after Brexit
Jul 21, 2016 02:37 am UTC| Insights & Views
With Brexit on the horizon, the UK must decide what kind of trade relationship it should craft with the European Union. The cases of Norway, Switzerland, Canada and other members of the WTO offer inspiration. All have...
Jul 20, 2016 07:36 am UTC| Commentary
Boris Johnson may have ignored UKs new Prime Minister Theresa Mays warning during the cabinet meeting, where she told him that politics is no game but he learned it the hard way in his first foreign policy outing. His past...
Briferendum Aftermath Series: Can betrayal be the reason behind second referendum?
Jul 19, 2016 08:22 am UTC| Commentary
It would be soon enough that the voters who backed an exit from the European Union in the June referendum would realize that their new foreign minister and most popular face of the exit camp, Boris Johnson was either...
Japanese bet on UK tech group ARM is no backing for Brexit Britain
Jul 19, 2016 08:13 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
SoftBank, a Japanese technology business, has agreed to buy Cambridge-based chip designer ARM Holdings for a European record US$32 billion for a technology business. The deal was hailed by the new chancellor of the...
Jul 19, 2016 07:23 am UTC| Commentary
Top European Union leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel has clearly said that if the United Kingdom wants to access the single market then it will have to respect the European Unions all four pillars of freedom...
Briferendum Aftermath Series: Biggest fallout of Article 50
Jul 19, 2016 06:29 am UTC| Commentary
While most of us loathe the huge paper works and reading the various treaties (except for maybe lawyers), we became all aware of the Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty, especially after post-UK referendum world. What it...
Briferendum Aftermath Series: Theresa May moves fast to attend her second task
Jul 15, 2016 08:13 am UTC| Commentary
After successfully handling the first task, which was to unite the conservative party, better than expected, Britains newly elected Prime Minister Theresa May has swiftly moved to attend to her second task that is to unite...
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