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Brexit. Brexit was the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union at 23:00 GMT on 31 January 2020 (00:00 1 February 2020 CET). As of 2020, the UK is the only member state to have left the EU. Britain entered the predecessor to the EU, the European Communities (EC), on 1 January 1973. Following this, Eurosceptic groups grew in ...
Wilding coined Brexit to refer to the end of the UK's membership of the EU; by 2016, usage of the word had increased by 3,400% in one year. [18] On 2 November 2016, the Collins English Dictionary selected Brexit as the word of the year for 2016. [19]
The Brexit withdrawal agreement, officially titled Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, [3][4] is a treaty between the European Union (EU), Euratom, and the United Kingdom (UK), signed on 24 January 2020, [5] setting the terms of ...
The policy paper proposed that EU citizens living in Britain will be required to apply for inclusion on a "settled status" register if they wish to remain in the country after Brexit. [88] By the end of September 2017 progress had been made on several of the 60 points which became green, while 13 out of the 60 points remain red.
Brexit delayed until 12 April: Mar 2019: Cooper–Letwin Act passed: Apr 2019: Brexit delayed until 31 October: Apr 2019: European Parliament election: May 2019: Theresa May resigns as PM: Jul 2019: Boris Johnson becomes PM: Jul 2019: Prorogation and annulment: Aug–Sep 2019: Benn Act passed: Sep 2019: Withdrawal agreement revised: Oct 2019 ...
The majority of economists believe that Brexit has harmed the UK's economy and reduced its real per capita income in the long term, and the referendum itself damaged the economy. [2][3][4][5][6] It is likely to produce a large decline in immigration from countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK, [7] and poses challenges for ...
v. t. e. The 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, commonly referred to as the EU referendum or the Brexit referendum, was a referendum that took place on 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom (UK) and Gibraltar under the provisions of the European Union Referendum Act 2015 to ask the electorate whether the country should ...
Brexit. The United Kingdom (UK) was a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) from 1 January 1994 to 31 December 2020, following the coming into force of the 1992 EEA Agreement (as adjusted by a 1993 protocol). Membership of the EEA is a consequence of membership of the European Union (EU). The UK ceased to be a Contracting Party to the EEA ...