Brexit Negotiator

As British Prime Minister Boris Johnson informed the nation on Monday evening of dramatic new restrictions to stem the spread of coronavirus, Brexit was the last thing on most Britons’ minds. For most citizens and businesses, little has changed in their daily lives since the U.K. left the European Union…

Boris Johnson faces escalating pressure to suspend all post-Brexit trade negotiations and concentrate government’s resources on fighting the coronavirus pandemic. In a letter coordinated by the Trade Justice Movement and signed by several charities – including Friends of the Earth and the RSPCA – the prime minister has been urged to pause…

Untangling a relationship four decades in the making, the post-Brexit trade talks were never going to be easy. Throw in a suffocatingly tight time frame—significant progress by June, completion by December—and things looked trickier still.  And now, coronavirus.  As governments across Europe toil frantically with the planet’s worst pandemic in…

You may have noticed that numerous celebrities have tested positive for the coronavirus over the last two weeks, despite only about 55,000 confirmed positive cases in the U.S.Carl Bergstrom, an evolutionary and theoretical biologist at the University of Washington, explains that it is because celebrities and politicians are more connected…

Negotiations on the future relationship between London and Brussels in the post-Brexit era will continue despite the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier testing positive for the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on 20 March.British people have expressed support for an extension to the 31 December…

Brexit Negotiator David Frost in Coronavirus Isolation The heads of both sides of the EU future relationship negotiation teams are now in isolation. While 69 year old Barnier tweeted yesterday that he had tested positive for the disease, Bloomberg is now reporting that David Frost, the UK’s chief negotiator “is…

Los Angeles: Italy surpassed China on Thursday as the country with the most deaths from coronavirus as California, home to more than 39 million people, was placed under lockdown in the most drastic containment measure yet by a US state. President Donald Trump said meanwhile that the United States is…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption A lockdown imposed on 12 March in Italy has been extended Coronavirus has killed more people in Italy than in any other country, after deaths there rose by 427 in a day.The number of deaths now stands at 3,405, which is more than in…

Prince Albert II of Monaco has tested positive for Covid-19. There are no concerns for the 62-year-old’s health, a statement from his palace read, as reported by Associated Foreign Press. He is continuing to work from home and is being treated by doctors. ITV News’ Royal Editor Chris Ship pointed…

The European Union's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, has announced he has tested positive for COVID-19, putting a further cloud over Brexit trade talks. The 69-year-old broke the news on Twitter and said: "I would like to inform you that I have tested positive for COVID-19. I am doing well…