UK Ratifies Brexit Deal as Leaders Sign New Chapter
Thursday, December 31, 2020 | Tag Cloud Tags: Brexit, Britain, EU, Euro, Europe, News, Trade, UK, Worthy News
(Worthy News) – Britain and the EU signed a post-Brexit trade deal Wednesday, sealing their drawn-out divorce in the closing hours before the UK definitively ends its half-century European experiment.
Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel, the heads of the European Commission and European Council, smiled at a brief televised ceremony to put their names to the 1,246-page Trade and Cooperation Agreement in Brussels.
“It has been a long road. It’s time now to put Brexit behind us. Our future is made in Europe,” von der Leyen said. [ Source: VOA News (Read More…) ]
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