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We welcome the @EUCouncil's decision today to authorise the opening of the future partnership negotiations with the UK.
Read more → europa.eu/!hr49uy
#NewBeginnings 🇪🇺🇬🇧 EU and UK flags together
@EUCouncil @vonderleyen @MichelBarnier @DanielFerrie “We are now ready to start negotiations with the UK. We want to build a close, ambitious future partnership, as this is in the best interest of people on both sides of Channel.
We will work as hard as we can to achieve the best possible result.”
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@EUCouncil @vonderleyen @MichelBarnier @DanielFerrie These directives cover all areas of interest for the negotiations, including trade and economic cooperation, law enforcement and judicial cooperation in criminal matters, foreign policy, security and defence, participation in EU programmes and other thematic areas of cooperation.
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Europe’s industry is at its best when it draws on what makes it strong:

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Thomas Cole
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NEW: The UK publishes its approach to negotiating the future #UK - #EU relationship gov.uk/government/pub… UK already saying that it wants a "Canada", "Korea" or "Japan" style relationship and wants to be seen as a "sovereign equal". None of this likely to fly anywhere...
Here is the document itself with some key bits highlighted (thread) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl…
Point 5: "relationship between sovereign equals" is - although UK Gov entitled to say this - delusional. #UK much smaller than #EU and more exposed to EU economically than vice-versa. Sovereignty argument coming through strongly here.
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Brigid Fowler
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Ahead of publication of UK's objectives for its future relationship #negotiations with the EU, & of normal Thurs @HouseofCommons #BusinessQuestions this AM, a quick thread on some aspects of where we are on #Parliament side of things. 1/
1st, remember that, 'cos of way UK does treaties, gov is under no obligation to publish what it's publishing today. UK gov is under no obligation to tell Parl anything about treaties it's negotiating unless & until they need domestic implementing legislation +/or ratification. 2/
So, fact that gov is publishing a paper today, & doing so accompanied by both a written & oral statement to Parl, is good. It continues longstanding practice of UK gov publishing some kind of doc before start of negs with (pre-Brexit, the rest of) the EU. But... 3/
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Great to be @MiddleEastInst for an event on #EU-#MiddleEast relations with @AlexVatanka, Przemyslaw Osiewicz and @KianpourWorld. What do changes in EU personnel and the new @EU_Commission mean for EU-MENA relations?
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Ursula #vonderLeyen may become the most hard core EU-federalist EC President ever. She'll push for:

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EU data protection and external trade
Commission adopts adequacy decision on EU/Japan data protection flows
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Press release: europa.eu/rapid/press-re…
Factsheet: ec.europa.eu/info/sites/inf…
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Compare to Brexit
Under the withdrawal agreement EU data protection law still applies to UK during transition period, & an adequacy decision process would be started.
If no deal, no adequacy decision, although this limits data flows, not bans them - p 11: ec.europa.eu/transparency/r…
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David M. Herszenhorn
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Amid reports that #UK PM @theresa_may hopes to renegotiate the "backstop" provision on the Northern Ireland border, let's recall that she already made clear what she wants in her letter to #EU leaders before disastrously losing the #Brexit Withdrawal Treaty ratification vote. 1/
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