Brexit Negotiator

Nuclear power plants are a point of contention in EU discussions of what constitutes renewable energy. PHOTO: AFP BRUSSELS: European Union (EU) leaders meet without Britain on Thursday, but their departing neighbour’s absence will not make agreeing a budget…

Boris Johnson's timetable to 'get Brexit done' has been described as unrealistic by Michel Barnier.   In a leaked recording, the European Union's chief negotiator says that a global trade negotiation cannot be completed in the time frame promised by the Prim…

UK party leaders criss-crossed the country on the final day of campaigning ahead of Thursdays (12 December) general election that remains tightly poised, with most opinion polls suggesting that Boris Johnsons Conservatives will secure a narrow majority. But …

Facing opposition claims that it will sell off the NHS to the Americans after Brexit, the Conservatives have been eager to reassure us. Quizzed on the threat to the NHS of a US-UK trade deal, and on Labours publication of leaked notes of the trade talks so fa…

Michel Barnier has torpedoed Boris Johnsons promise that Brexit will be done and dusted by the end of next year. The Sunday Mirror has seen minutes of a private meeting between the EUs chief Brexit negotiator and MEPs which rubbish the PMs pledge. Mr John…

Earlier, on 4 December, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson abruptly shut down a press conference at the end of the UK-hosted NATO summit after being asked if he had spoken to Donald Trump about sparing the NHS from the auctioning block ahead of a future US-UK tr…

This story was originally published in the December 3 edition of CNN's Meanwhile in America, the daily email about US politics for global readers. Sign up here to receive it every weekday morning. (CNN)NATO is having an unhappy birthday. Champagne corks ou…

Ursula von der Leyen is the first woman to hold the EU's top job as President of the European Commission which officially begins its new five-year term today.  Already, the 61-year-old former German defence minister, who succeeds Jean-Claude Juncker has a fu…

It was something of a surprise this debate went ahead, given the horrific events on London Bridge just five hours earlier. With Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn having already decided to send party frontbenchers in their stead, the showdown in the Welsh capit…

Jean-Claude Juncker taunted the UK on his last working day as president of the European Commission as he claimed Brexit had made the EU more popular than ever.  Mr Juncker, who is stepping down at the end of a five year term, said the UK's departure from the…