Sentences with phrase «to leave the bloc»

The phrase "to leave the bloc" means that a country or group is choosing to exit an alliance, agreement, or organization they were previously a part of. Full definition
The Financial Times reported Monday that «the U.K. is starting to recognize that it will have to keep Britain under the remit of some EU agencies after leaving the bloc in 2019.»
Britain and the EU want to strike an overall Brexit agreement by October, so EU parliaments have time to ratify it before Britain leaves the bloc on March 29, 2019.
Adrian Hilton, a proponent of the process, said missional projects and dialogue between churches and their European counterparts will continue undisturbed once the UK leaves the bloc.
Salmond believes the complexity of leaving a bloc of which the UK has been a member for more than four decades will mean the unravelling of deals and pan-European legislation that will take years longer than the 24 months of article 50.
Lane Fox is adamant that leaving the bloc after the referendum on 23 June would have negative implications for the tech industry.
says he is already «nervous» about the Government's approach to triggering Article 50, the legal process for leaving the bloc.
Pro-EU politicians need to show more courage in opposing Brexit, Peter Mandelson has said, as he urged the public to donate in support of Tony Blair's call for an uprising against leaving the bloc.
He says he hopes that the next budget — for the period 2021 — 27 — will rise to at least $ 120 billion, as the European Parliament has requested, even though the European Union will lose the United Kingdom's contribution when the country leaves the bloc next year.
If Britain stays in a customs union it must agree to apply the same tariffs on imports from outside the EU and can not negotiate free trade deals with other nations, as the government currently hopes to do once the U.K. leaves the bloc.
Until now, May has frequently said she is hoping to secure a deal that is good for both the U.K. and the EU — but, significantly, has not ruled out leaving the bloc without one.
European Council President Donald Tusk holds a news conference after receiving British Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit letter in notice of the UK's intention to leave the bloc under Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty to EU Council President Donald Tusk in Brussels, Belgium March 29, 2017.
Pier Luigi Bersani's centre - left bloc managed to win a majority in the lower house by dint of the electoral system's generous winner's bonus.
New Labour architect and peer says the government's pursuit of leaving the bloc at any cost must be challenged
During the EU referendum campaign, Leadsom said leaving the bloc would not disadvantage farmers.
But Ryan's resignation to run a quixotic campaign against Dan Donovan leaves the bloc one vote short, and any new board member from Staten Island once selected would have to go through a lengthy vetting process.
Both the European Commission and the U.K. government have offered reassurance that, until the United Kingdom officially leaves the bloc, nothing will change.
The allegations have been presented to Britain's Electoral Commission and come just days after a prominent Labour Party politician called for a second Brexit referendum once the true costs of leaving the bloc become clear.
BRUSSELS (AP)-- Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.
The drugs watchdog has to move by March 2019 as London will no longer be in the European Union once Britain leaves the bloc.
The government has set out two potential options for a customs system after the UK leaves the bloc.
As for Brexit, Woolfe says he is already «nervous» about the Government's approach to triggering Article 50, the legal process for leaving the bloc.
Speaking on BBC1's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday, Mandelson urges the public to donate to Open Britain in support of Tony Blair's call for an uprising against leaving the bloc
The EU Withdrawal Bill, currently undergoing detailed scrutiny in the House of Lords, aims to transfer existing legislation from Brussels onto the UK statute book when the country leaves the bloc.
The British government will today deliver the letter to European Union President Donald Tusk, formally notifying him of Britain's intention to leave the bloc after 44 years of membership.
Some 75,396 voters in Richmond Upon Thames backed staying in the EU, to 33,410 in favour of leaving the bloc.
On Monday, U.K. prime minister Theresa May won approval from Parliament to begin talks for the country's exit from the E.U. May plans to invoke what is known as Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, which outlines how an E.U. member may leave the bloc — provided it gives two years» notice.
Speaking at the same summit, May had denied earlier Friday that the U.K. had increased its financial offer to the European Union as part of its steps to leave the bloc.
Theresa May dismissed reports Friday that the U.K. had upped its financial offer to the European Union as part of its steps to leave the bloc.
The EU's Brexit negotiator has pressed the U.K. once again to move fast with its negotiations to leave the bloc.
The U.K. and the European Union are finally about to start discussing the nitty - gritty of how the former will leave the bloc - an unprecedented moment in European history.
Macron said that in a similar context, if the French people were asked to vote on EU membership, then they would probably have chosen to leave the bloc.
One of the biggest worries for many EU members has been the hole that the U.K. will leave in the European budget once it leaves the bloc on March 29, 2019.
But the Europeans have said they want to confirm the technicalities of how the U.K. will leave the bloc, before deciding on the shape of any future cooperation or partnership.
BRUSSELS — Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.
The center - left bloc, including the ruling Democratic Party (PD) which took a drubbing in the vote, was seen with 23 percent of the vote.
While Pier Luigi Bersani's center - left bloc has taken enough votes to give it control of the lower house of parliament, no party or likely coalition won enough seats to gain a majority in Italy's upper house, which implies a hung parliament at a time when the country urgently needs to fight a deep recession, high unemployment and a huge public debt.
May's government has worked hard on pushing the idea that the U.K. could sign a free trade agreement with the United States, but, as the Guardian reported, EU diplomats have said that «while no one can stop Britain from talking to future trade partners, any concrete attempt to negotiate free - trade agreements before Britain leaves the bloc could rapidly sour Brexit negotiations.»
Senior British lawmakers that back Brexit have demanded that Prime Minister Theresa May drops a proposal for a customs partnership with the European Union once it leaves the bloc, the BBC reported on Wednesday.
The country has reportedly bowed to EU demands that it pay up to 100 bln euros when it leaves the bloc.
Economic growth across the European Union will remain robust this year and next, particularly when compared with Britain, which is set to leave the bloc in less than a year, the EU's executive branch said Thursday.
The left bloc — comprising of the Left - Green Party, the Pirates (who also had a good election), Bright Future and the Social Democrats — hold 27 seats.
The other option is to join a liberal - left bloc.
Nine months after the shock referendum vote to leave the bloc, Britain handed over a momentous letter to the EU president in Brussels, triggering Article 50 of the bloc's Lisbon Treaty and firing the starting gun on a two - year countdown towards Brexit.
Guy Verhofstadt has written to the new home secretary about how the rights of EU citizens will be protected after Britain leaves the bloc.
The European Union is in a «critical situation», the German chancellor has said, as leaders meet in Slovakia to discuss ways to regain trust after the UK's vote to leave the bloc.
The centre - left bloc in Strasbourg is backing him too to assert the power of the elected parliament over the bureaucracy in Brussels.
A red - red - green coalition would retain the left bloc's ideological coherence and signal to voters the government's composition if the left won a majority.
Europeans will go to the polls in May next year, by which time Britain will already have left the bloc.
That could shift two seats in the Israeli parliament from the right - wing bloc to the center - left bloc, potentially tipping the balance between the parties.
Prime Minister, David Cameron, said yesterday that he did not regret holding the referendum on Britain's membership of the EU despite the surprise victory for the campaign to leave the bloc.
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