Author: Frank Schnittger

I’m beginning to wonder whether we have over-estimated the power of the Brexiteers and associated media.  Here is a selection of front page headlines in UK media: THE TIMES: “May bounces back” –...

Brexit deal: Main points The European Commission is to recommend to EU leaders that Brexit talks with the UK move on to the second phase after it deemed “sufficient progress” had been made, including a deal aimed at...

Arlene Foster, the leader of the DUP, has been delaying even a phone conversation with Theresa May, and as yet there are no plans for the two to meet, despite the fact that May is due in Brussels at some stage this week to...

The crunch has indeed become a crisis. Agreement between the UK and Irish governments on the Irish border question was reached this morning in time for Theresa May’s lunch meeting with Commission President Juncker only to...

As noted in previous diaries here and here, the Brexit talks (phase 1) are reaching a climax. Two of the three main issues have been more or less resolved. Agreement has been reached in principle on the UK contribution to...