🚨🚨New important report detailing the findings and recommendations of the Constitution, Europe, External Affairs and Culture Committee (‘the Committee’) of @ScotParl following its inquiry in relation to the Review of the EU-UK TCA. Brief 🧵 Overall, in the Committee’s view, it is clear that the UK-EU trading relationship post-Brexit, under the terms of the TCA, has presented significant new challenges for Scottish businesses exporting to the EU. /2

🚨🚨 "Brussels questions whether Starmer really wants a Brexit reset: EU officials and diplomats say when push comes to shove, the new PM’s position is so far so similar to his Tory predecessor’s." Vg report by @joncstone on🇪🇺 response to Starmer's reset.
politico.eu/article/keir-s… " Keir Starmer says he wants to “reset” Britain’s relationship with Europe. But two months into his premiership, the EU is starting to wonder whether he really means it." /2

🚨🚨 The #DraghiReport is extensive and ambitious and deserves a very close reading. But I will try to summarise the key points of the report here very shortly in this 🧵: commission.europa.eu/document/downl…
The report identifies three main areas for action to reignite sustainable growth. First, and most importantly – Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies. /2

🚨🚨"Renegotiating the UK’s Brexit deal will take more than warm words". Meaty read from long-time #brexit chronicler @pmdfoster who paints a fairly pessimistic but realistic assessment of Keir Starmer's reset with Brussels. Brief 🧵ft.com/content/260041… Peter first starts with another @FT piece from the week which announced that the EU will not offer the new Lab government a deal to ease the plight of UK touring musicians in the 🇪🇺 pointing to some important realities with relevance beyond the narrow issue of touring artists. /2

🚨🚨 Britons travelling to Europe will need €7 visa from next summer. Passengers visiting the bloc will be required to apply for a waiver before travel which will be valid for 3 years or until passport expiry. #brexitreality story via @benclatworthy
thetimes.com/article/9c8f02… @YlvaJohansson , the EU JHA commissioner, said that the European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) was on course to launch in spring. Johansson was speaking before the launch of the EU’s Entry/Exit System (EES), which will come into force on November 10./2

🚨🚨 "The EU’s approach to Britain and Brexit needs fixing". Thought-provoking piece with @Mij_Europe which requires some response. I do not necessarily disagree with all in here but I think the basic premise of the piece might require some rethinking.
ft.com/content/d0f920… First, I think the fundamental negotiating starting point is that from the EU's perspective, the UK is still a third country like everyone else. This does not entail that it is impossible to negotiate with the EU nor that the UK cannot get something it wishes. /2

🚨🚨 Strikingly feeble, poor and non-sensical piece by @DrGerardLyons on the damage of #brexit for the UK economy. It is difficult to find anything in the article that makes sense but let us unpick the most blatant inaccuracies here in short 🧵
capx.co/unpicking-brex… Very reliable estimates by @OBR_UK suggests that he post-Brexit trading relationship between the UK and EU, as set out in the TCA that came into effect on 1 January 2021, will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU. /2

🚨🚨 "In today's next predictable #brexitbordershambles", @singharj & @joeduggan1 has an excellent report on the very unsurprising chaos in the UK which will follow upon the long-delayed imposition of the EU entry-exit system (EES) in 100 days. Brief🧵 inews.co.uk/news/politics/… The EES will require British travellers to the continent to register fingerprints, a photo and passport details – is due in November and concerns are growing about the delays and chaos it could cause. /2

🚨🚨"Why Starmer should now play prosecutor on Brexit: A proper audit of the impact of leaving the EU would deliver political and economic benefits to incoming Labour ministers". Characteristically strong column by @robertshrimsley . Key points in brief 🧵
ft.com/content/b82886… There are good political and economic reasons for commissioning a thorough official review of the impact of Brexit. The first and simplest is that it has not been done. /2

🚨🚨 "Keir Starmer to signal Britain is ‘back’ on the world stage." Promising much-needed new direction/reset of UK foreign policy as per @FT report by @LOS_Fisher , @PickardJE & @pmdfoster . Short 🧵with key elements:
ft.com/content/ab8842… " Sir Keir Starmer will use his first weeks in power to signal that Britain is “back” as a leading global player, as Labour prioritises three foreign policy resets — with Europe, the “global south” and on climate change". /2

🚨🚨Excellent and nuanced critical overview by @pmdfoster & @AndyBounds of @UKLabour 's pledge to enhance the trading relationship with the 🇪🇺 well-informed by much needed expert insights. Short #BrexitReality 🧵with key points ft.com/content/b8b166… Labour has pledged to sign a vet agreement with the EU. A deal could reduce the amount of red tape at the border for plant and animal products, but the scale of any benefits would depend on how ambitious the UK wanted to be. /2

🚨🚨 The most recent sanctions package against Russia is quite ambitious. Some key elements: 🧵

https://twitter.com/StevePeers/status/1805203912028192859

1) The package includes restrictive measures on additional 116 individuals and entities responsible for actions undermining or threatening the territorial integrity, sovereignty and independence of Ukraine, as well as the following sectoral measures:

🚨🚨"Starmer’s Brexit Silence Risks Backfiring If He Gains Power". Labour election campaign designed to keep Leave voters onside but red lines on EU ties will hinder pledge to grow UK economy. #brexitreality story via @EllenAMilligan @BloombergUK 🧵
bloomberg.com/news/articles/… KS won’t have long to wait for a chance to reset UK’s ties with the EU. If his Labour Party wins the GE on July 4, he’ll be welcoming dozens of fellow leaders including Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz & Giorgia Meloni for talks at Winston Churchill’s former home just 2 weeks later.

🚨🚨 Eight years and one day ago....Britain vote to leave the European Union. Some reflections on #brexit from an external European perspective. 🧵 As a strong pro-European and EU law academic I was personally insulted by the vote which also came as a shock (I was in Birmingham for an EU law conference when the ref vote took place) as naively I had assumed it could never happen. /2

🚨🚨 Great and very insightful @UKandEU analysis by @shunsakerjr taking stock of UK-EU trade in 2023, the first post-Brexit year not significantly impacted by Covid-19 or the energy crisis. Worth to highlight some key findings. 🧵
ukandeu.ac.uk/what-happened-… One of the most notable findings- which is confounding trade economists- is that the UK’s trade ties with the EU look surprisingly strong. The same cannot be said of non-EU countries, whose share of total UK trade was down. /2

🚨🚨 New comprehensive @UKandEU report says (surprise, surprise) that @UKLabour proposal to improve trading relationship with the EU will have ‘minimal’ impact on cost of #Brexit. Important #brexitreality story via @pmdfoster. 🧵
ft.com/content/9f37b5… The 72-page report from @UKandEU was published as shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves promised to improve EU trade ties by aligning the UK more closely with Brussels regulations and seeking a better deal for service professionals. /2

🚨🚨 New small publication alert: I have scribbled down some general thoughts on the future of the EU-UK relationship upon the very kind invitation by @AdamsonPaul for @EncompassEurope, particularly focusing on the EU perspective of that relationship . Short 🧵

https://twitter.com/EncompassEurope/status/1801883846935285800

In light of a potential new UK Labour Government wishing to reconsider the overall EU-UK relationship, it is worth to consider to what extent the EU Member States are interested in more intense cooperation with the UK. /2

🚨🚨 "In today's at least we got #brexit done", @JSimpsonjourno & @GiuffridaA reports on predictable but miserable Post-Brexit ‘mess’ as Italian driver’s lorry held for 55 hours at UK border post in Sevington. #brexitshambles🧵
theguardian.com/politics/artic… Antonio Soprano, 62, who was stopped while bringing plants into the country from central Italy, said he was offered nothing to eat during his 55-hour ordeal and instead was told by border officials that he should walk to a McDonald’s more than a mile away to get a meal. /2

🚨🚨 Excellent by @JananQotd: "This government’s single greatest disservice to the UK has been to misunderstand the US. #Brexit was, from the start, a huge bet on the economic openness of America." /1
ft.com/content/8f229e… "A bilateral trade deal with Washington was meant to offset the loss of unfettered access to the EU market. That no such deal emerged was bad enough (though as predictable as sunrise)". /2

🚨🚨 I think @DavidGHFrost has given @UKLabour a very clear recipe for success in government. Undoing #BrexitShambles piece-by-piece is the way to go in getting #britain back on track as a modern and quite prosperous liberal democracy. /1

https://twitter.com/DavidGHFrost/status/1793369590275383582

Britain "rejoining" the EU single market and striking a customs agreement with the Union are essential pieces in the ambition to create growth and for stimulating the UK economy. This is a shared understanding by most serious economists. /2

🚨🚨 "In today's it's only going to get worse", @JSimpsonjourno reports on Brexit border IT outages which delay import of perishable foods and plants to UK by up to 20 hours with retailers rejecting orders. #brexitshambles🧵 theguardian.com/business/artic… "Businesses have described the government’s new border control checks as a “disaster” after IT outages led to lorries carrying meat, cheese and cut flowers being held for long periods, reducing the shelf life of their goods and prompting retailers to reject some orders." /2