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Monday 30 November 2020
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday that there was ‘a deal to be done’.
Lorcan McCabe, a Cavan dairy farmer, said this could “pose huge problems” for the dairy sector.
Dominic Raab has said that this could be the last week of “substantive” negotiations.
The two leaders reaffirmed the need to prioritise the Good Friday Agreement.
A number of signs across the English county were changed by campaigners.
Although the focus has mostly been on State aid and the level-playing field, that is shifting to fisheries in the past few weeks.
The new service will start in January and operate six times per week.
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar has appealed to businesses to step up their planning.
Mortgage transactions have recovered since the summer, according to the latest data.
Biden told reporters yesterday that he did not want to see “a guarded border”.
RTÉ reports that the UK intends to replicate the EU’s food safety regime which restricts meat products from outside the union.
The UK’s post-Brexit transitionary period ends on 31 December.
Business groups welcomed the announcement but warned that firms face a ‘cliff edge’ without deals with the EU and other nations.
Naomi Long sounded the warning as she gave evidence to a Westminster committee.
It’s another crunch week on the Brexit front – so what are the sticking points?
Chief British negotiator David Frost says he and his team are working hard for an agreement.
Simon Coveney has called for a ‘dialling down’ of rhetoric during Brexit talks.
Cummings and Lee Cain are close political allies, having worked together since the Brexit campaign.
The EU wants a deal by mid-November ahead of the end of the transition period.
Stena Line has chartered an extra ship in response to the increased movement of goods.
Minister Simon Coveney told BBC2’s Newsnight the UK government’s stance had “undermined trust”.
Conservative former leader Lord Howard of Lympne led the calls for the Prime Minister to ‘think again’.
The Reform think tank says the proposed name is already gone.
Coveney described Biden as a “real friend to Ireland” who has made clear his position on the Good Friday Agreement.
He said he believed a deal with the EU could still be done if the latter shows ‘flexibility’ and ‘good will’.
The briefing is seen as a key moment in the discussions after negotiations derailed in October.
Time is running short for a deal to be in place before the transition period expires at the end of the year.
Department of Foreign Affairs officials have been involved in meetings planning the centenary events.
Brexit continues to trundle towards us – here’s a bit more information about what is changing.
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said talks between the EU and UK are in a ‘very serious zone’.
British driving licences made invalid, a customs-check comeback, and what to do with the UK landbridge.
The key issues of contention remain fishing rights, the governance of any deal and the “level playing field” aimed at preventing unfair competition.
That’s according to Andrew McCormick, Stormont’s lead official on EU exit.
Despite British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s deadline of the EU summit, another round of talks are taking place this week.
Members of the UK’s House of Lords addressed an Oireachtas Committee about the Internal Market Bill.
The transition period in which to agree a trade deal between the EU and UK ends on 31 December.
The trade arrangements in place between Australia and the EU are nothing like a free-trade deal, writes Neale Richmond.
The latest impasse over Brexit comes with only 10 weeks left to secure a post-Brexit transition trade deal.
May asked senior Tory minister Michael Gove what the post-Brexit security plan for the UK was, and didn’t like the answer he gave.
The British government has launched a ‘time is running out’ campaign urging businesses to get ready for the end of the transition period on 31 December.
IT’S THE LAST day of November, so it’s safe to say the Christmas countdown has well and truly begun.
With everything that has happened in 2020 so far, many people have chosen to bring a bit Christmas cheer into their lives earlier than usual this year, and decorations have been going up in households around the country for a number of weeks now.
But others are still sticking to their usual traditions and waiting until December to put the tree up.
So, today we want to know: When are you putting up your Christmas tree?
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