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One of the European parliament's Union Jacks will be sent to the EU's House of History next month. The rest will be taken down at an unconfirmed time.

So Brexit party MEPs will not get the flag-lowering 'last days of empire' ceremony they wanted.
European parliament is also shaking up its Brexit personnel.
*Guy Verhofstadt steps back and Brexit Steering Group disbanded.
*Enter... the UK co-ordination committee: featuring David McAllister, Nathalie Loiseau and Bernd Lange.
All three lead big committees that will be involved closely in future UK-EU talks. Loiseau on security and defence; Lange, trade and McAllister, foreign affairs.

They will be joined by other MEPs and will have to keep in line 705 MEPs in this unprecedented negotiation.
Instead of big flag-lowering moment, EP president David Sassoli will lead a low-key ceremony after Brexit vote on 29 January.
And it's *not* British MEPs last day today, because they will all come to Brussels for final week of Jan. It's their last day in Strasbourg.
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Ivan Rogers has been talking about what happens after 31 January 2020.

‘Not a great deal will happen in the next few months, heading for the rocks by the summer and towards a major crisis in autumn 2020.’

Some key points from his @ForumEurope interview with @duncanrobinson
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Nigel Farage final EP presser: "It was the platform of being an MEP that meant within weeks I was invited to speak at the Oxford Union, that meant I was first invited onto Question Time."

Here is a 2016 piece about how the European parliament made Ukip
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Nigel Farage also spoke about the importance of his front-row seat in EP hemicycle, next to José Manuel Barroso and Jean-Claude Juncker.
"In terms of choreography it was magnificent. I will miss being the pantomime villain."
He also referred to the importance of EP funds that enabled Ukip to send leaflets against the Lisbon treaty to households in Ireland, as well as importance of YouTube.
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NEW Brexit slide: This is how the EU wants to structure the EU-UK post-Brexit deal: two bases (economic, security), one governance arrangement, one level-playing field.

We could call it the house at the end of the Barnier staircase.
2. Slide was shown to EU27 diplomats on Friday PM, their wrap-up seminar after Brexit teach-in by Michel Barnier's team.

The slides repeat the EU's now well-known principles…. EU27 unity/ no non member can have the same benefits as a member etc.
3....and all negotiations through Michel Barnier i.e. not via member states.
There has been a fair amount of turnover in EU diplomatic Brexit circles and these seminars have been about keeping the 27 together ahead of the next phase.
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