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| Subject: Bureaucratic insanity: UK set to fall out of at least 750 union-signed agreements when it leaves EU in 2019 Tue Dec 19, 2017 1:01 am | |
| Britain faced with Brexit headache over ties with rest of the world
As Britain seeks to decide what kind of relationship it wants with the EU, another issue is racing up the agenda: the country’s post-Brexit relations with the rest of the world.
Even if Theresa May, prime minister, secures a deal to maintain most of the status quo after Britain leaves in 2019, it may still be hard to replicate the web of treaties that shape relations with dozens of other countries.
The transition deal that the UK is seeking to negotiate early next year will only cover ties with the bloc, not the accords that Brussels struck with the rest of the world.
As a result, when it leaves the EU on March 29 2019, the UK risks falling out of hundreds of agreements that are relevant to British interests, covering everything from nuclear co-operation and free trade to airline flying rights.
Liam Fox, Britain’s international trade secretary, describes the change as a liberation that will allow the UK to “seize the opportunities” of setting an independent trade policy for the first time since the 1970s.
https://www.ft.com/content/f9b57fca-e415-11e7-8b99-0191e45377ec
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