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UK TRANSPORT AND BREXIT NEWS & VIEWS NO. 101

20/05/2019

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Mark’s EU Week for Transport It’s finally here, the elections that nobody expected would take place in the UK are happening in just 3 days time. Across the EU-27, the election campaigns are focusing on the future of the EU with anti-EU forces threatening to coalesce around a unified anti-EU group. However, as I argue in a new blog piece, while the narrative seems to be presenting a new surge of anti-EU MEPs, the reality is very different indeed. There is no denying…

UK Transport and Brexit News & Views No. 70

23/07/2018

Regina Garcia Nunez

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Mark’s EU Week for Transport ‘Hope for the best, plan for the worst’ is a quote that has many parents but nicely sums up the latest twists and turns of our Brexit saga. In terms of planning for the worst, the European Commission issued a stark warning note on preparedness for the transport sector (see below) that irrespective of the scenario envisaged, Brexit will cause significant disruption for European citizens, businesses and administrations. It goes on to stress that preparedness is not just…

UK Transport and Brexit News & Views No. 69

16/07/2018

Regina Garcia Nunez

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Mark’s EU Week for Transport Brexit talks are due to recommence in Brussels with UK and EU officials discussing the White Paper and Withdrawal Agreement. It will be an interesting meeting. The contrast in the reaction to the Chequers agreement and the White Paper on either side of the Channel has been stark. Almost no official comments from the EU, but meltdown in Westminster. Eight MPs in nine days have quit some role or other after Brexit policy was announced, including…

UK Transport and Brexit News & Views No. 65

04/06/2018

Regina Garcia Nunez

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Mark’s Brexit Week for Transport With the UK Parliament back from recess, Brexit is now firmly back in the saddle and we’re hearing a lot of optimistic noises from DExEU. Nothing wrong with optimism, and the Micawber principle that something good will turn up sometimes holds true. But as a strategy to see us through Brexit and beyond it’s not enough, not least in the transport field where a culture of planning and risk based assessments has quite rightly replaced the early pioneers…

UK Transport and Brexit News & Views No. 47

11/12/2017

Regina Garcia Nunez

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Mark’s Brexit Week for Transport This week saw the first real breakthrough in the Brexit negotiations. Having read the agreed text, I believe that we should certainly not overstate how much progress was achieved. We should rather take this as a surface-level agreement on ‘agreed truths’ devoid of any significant detail or commitment, which should just about see the negotiations scrape through to Phase 2. Under the stated caveat of “Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed”, claims of a major…

UK Transport and Brexit News & Views No. 42

06/11/2017

Regina Garcia Nunez

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Brexit is certainly back in business with a vengeance this week with talks resuming on Thursday here in Brussels, and the CBI revealing the results of a survey that show that more than 60 percent of firms may trigger Brexit contingency plans by March 2018 because of the lack of progress. Are we finally beginning to see business wading more forcefully into the UK government’s Brexit approach? As we report below, CBI chief Paul Drechsler will warn today at the…

Senior Conservative addresses major EU transport summit

09/12/2015

Regina Garcia Nunez

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The Deputy Leader of the Conservatives in the European Parliament, Jacqueline Foster MEP, has urged MEPs to avoid becoming too focused on employment and environment issues when examining transport legislation. Mrs Foster made the comments during her high-level keynote speech to the annual summit of UK Transport in Europe (UKTiE), the Brussels trade association of the UK transport industry, of which she is the patron. The North West MEP and Transport Spokesman said: “I was delighted the host the annual…