Liz Truss tells EU: Stop ‘re-running past arguments’ and resolve Northern Ireland Protocol row
And before EU-UK relations can be reset, Mr Sefcovic will demand reassurances from Ms Truss that she will not renege on the terms of any deal on…
Time is running out for the EU to stay on the right side of history
As we obsess about whether Boris had a sip of lukewarm Chardonnay 18 months ago, Europe is poised on the brink of war. We might kid ourselves…
Liz Truss targets Northern Ireland Protocol deal by end of March
The Telegraph understands that the Northern Ireland elections are a definite factor in the Foreign Office’s thinking. Officials have yet to agree on the length of the…
Liz Truss’s threat to trigger Article 16 is ‘unhelpful’ and ‘unsurprising’, warns EU ambassador
Brussels has said it is unimpressed with Liz Truss’s latest threat to trigger Article 16 just days before talks on the Northern Ireland Protocol are due to…
Liz Truss: I’ll use Article 16 if EU won’t bend on Northern Ireland Protocol
Liz Truss will insist on Sunday that Britain will overhaul the post-Brexit agreement over Northern Ireland unilaterally if she cannot reach a “negotiated solution” with the EU….
Britain must look beyond Brussels in the face of a hostile EU
As Britain enters 2022 many challenges face us, including a largely hostile continent. One hundred years ago the world moved on from a deadly pandemic, with the…
Debt row risks wrecking Emmanuel Macron’s bid to transform the EU
Reimposing the full fiscal rules, which have a clause for governments to borrow more in an emergency, in 2023 or beyond is hard to imagine, according to…
Purge of the museums: how ‘goose-stepping’ politicians are waging war on the arts in Poland
So, who exactly are Poland’s Right-wing culture warriors? Ironically, they have sprung to power in a country that was once the poster boy for the EU’s vision…
Risk-averse Tories are squandering Great Britain’s Brexit opportunities
Please do stop using the word Brexit; that fractious period in our politics is now past, government officials are invited to believe. Instead, recently issued Whitehall guidelines…
No-deal Brexit back on table if UK triggers Article 16, Liz Truss warned
The Government and the EU have been at a months-long standstill in attempts to renegotiate the protocol, which Downing Street believes has had a chilling effect on…
Brexit deal boost for Lowestoft’s historic herring fishermen
A fisherman is on a quest to revive Lowestoft’s historic herring fishery and his family’s traditions as a Brexit deal has given boats enough quota to make…
Northern Irish Christmas tree market becomes Brexit ‘battleground’ as UK exporters frozen out
EU Christmas tree suppliers are supplanting their British rivals exporting to Northern Ireland this festive season because of Brexit and the Irish Sea border. The Northern Ireland…
Emmanuel Macron and Mario Draghi tell Brussels to turn on spending taps
Mr Draghi and Mr Macron said the EU must “act boldly and quickly” against a backdrop of rising challenges from technology, demographic change and geopolitical pressures, urging…
Hopes that EU ‘hangover’ will be cured with pints of sparkling wine
A Government source told The Telegraph on Thursday night: “Pint-sized bottles were a victim of the EU’s war against imperial measurements, which are widely used and understood…
Liz Truss sticks to Lord Frost’s guns with echo of Margaret Thatcher’s ‘not for turning’
The Foreign Secretary has modelled herself on Mrs Thatcher, her political hero, most recently being pictured riding in a tank 35 years after the former prime minister…
Liz Truss sticks to Lord Frost’s guns with echo of Margaret Thatcher ‘not for turning’
The Foreign Secretary has modelled herself on Mrs Thatcher, her political hero, most recently being pictured riding in a tank 35 years after the former prime minister…
Watch: Why 2022 could see the end of Macron’s European dream
Emmanuel Macron faces an “all or nothing” year in 2022, with his big plans for the European Union dependent on whether he can get re-elected as France’s…
Parliament will override European judges on human rights, Dominic Raab to announce
Mr Raab told a committee of peers and MPs this week that he was looking at a mechanism that would allow Parliament to “correct” case law that…
Parliament will overrule European judges on human rights, Dominic Raab to announce
Mr Raab told a committee of peers and MPs this week that he was looking at a mechanism that would allow Parliament to “correct” case law that…
UK shut out of Horizon research scheme because EU doesn’t ‘trust’ British Government
The European Union is blocking the UK from its flagship research programme because it does not “trust” the British Government after its threats to tear up the…
Angela Merkel leaves a woeful legacy
For 16 years Angela Merkel dominated European politics, yet she left office yesterday with little positive to show by way of a lasting legacy. Her final act…
The EU’s plot to ban ‘ladies and gentlemen’ was pure wickedness
As the Swinging Sixties began, Lonnie Donegan enjoyed four weeks at number one in the hit parade with My Old Man’s a Dustman. Today it would have…
British researchers to be given ‘safety net’ after EU funding fails to materialise
British researchers left in limbo over EU funding that has failed to materialise will be given a “safety net” by the Government this week, with a pledge…
New Covid variant is less worrying than delta, says Prof Chris Whitty
On Friday, the World Health Organisation designated B.1.1.529 a variant of concern and labelled it omicron, with cases identified in Israel and Belgium. Scientists fear the variant’s…
Macron and the EU were too quick to mock Britain’s pandemic strategy and the AstraZeneca vaccine
“We have an extremely dramatic situation. This is going to exceed everything we have been through so far,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her health minister warned that…