Background: FT has listed the 759 international agreements
has with 168 countries in rest of
https://www.ft.com/content/f1435a8e-372b-11e7-bce4-9023f8c0fd2e …
Summary:
295
202
69
65
49
45
34
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We still do not know what is going to happen to these agreements, post-Brexit. First,
Govt wanted to copy and paste all these agreements. But that was ditched.
So now they want
to treat
as if it were in
until 2020.
We've no idea if that will work.
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This week's draft Withdrawal Agreement provided little extra detail.
says it will notify the rest of
that
still ought to be treated as if it is still in
, but we have no idea whether
etc. will happily do that.
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The moment - i.e. 29 March 2019 -
is no longer an
Member State, it will be considered as a non-
country by the rest of
, i.e. *before* the Transition Period (pencilled for March 2019 - December 2020) starts.
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I've tried to explain the complexity of this using
and
examples:
https://jonworth.eu/lemons-and-landing-rights-the-uks-relations-with-the-rest-of-the-world-post-brexit-is-the-issue-that-cannot-be-kicked-into-the-transition-period/ …
@CoppetainPU explains the headaches using the
FTA example:
https://tradebetablog.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/grandfathering-eu-ftas/ …
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Politico has spoken to some
trade negotiators who are not keen to just treat
like
longer: https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-trade-partners-object-to-brexit-transition-roll-over/ …
FT reports how talks with
on
are hard: https://www.ft.com/content/9461157c-1f97-11e8-9efc-0cd3483b8b80 …
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There is also some useful background on the law behind this from
@jedodermatt here: https://www.ejiltalk.org/brexit-and-international-law/ … And a video from Prof Michael Dougan explaining transition here, 17 min in: https://youtu.be/eqQJXe0t4wg?t=1028 … 8/10Deze collectie tonen -
I've looked around for a solution to this conundrum. I've asked people like
@DavidHenigUK@SamuelMarcLowe@CoppetainPU and - off Twitter - people I know in who work
. We still do not know how or if all of this will work.
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But the essence is this:
- even now, half way through Article 50 period - has no idea how its economic relations with rest of
will work from 29 March 2019 onwards.
And that problem cannot be pushed forward into transition.
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@fascinatorfun pointed me towards a summary of a Commons Into Trade Cttee meeting about this - they know the problem, but no solutions proposed: https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmselect/cmintrade/520/52003.htm …Deze collectie tonen
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post-Brexit are not getting enough attention currently.
This stuff is vitally important in general, but not least because these issues cannot be solved with a transition period with