Time is a critical factor and the Irish backstop needs to be resolved. I have grest respect for the sensitivity and complexity of this question having studied the matter due to my academic research for the SmartBorder 2.0 thst I did for the EU Parliament Constitutional Committee. There are solutions, but are there a solution thst doesn’t demand a comprimise?
BBC has interviewed European MEP Danuta Hübner also member of the European Parliament’s Brexit steering group. She says;
– There has been “practically no movement” on the Irish border issue over the summer. EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier hads offered “some openness” to make the border backstop more acceptable to the UK. However, no solution has yet emerged.
The backstop is the arrangement which will apply if the Irish border cannot be kept as frictionless as it is now in the context of a wider deal.
The EU has proposed a backstop that would mean NI staying in the EU customs union, large parts of the single market and the EU VAT system.
The UK government has rejected it as a threat to the integrity of the UK, and has suggested a backstop that would see the UK as a whole remaining aligned with the EU customs union for a limited time after 2020.
Ms Hübner said the border remains the toughest issue for the Brexit withdrawal agreement.
Any deal between the EU and UK will need to be approved by the European Parliament.
You can read the article here: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45400864
Source: BBC
It us tme for a second biography about one if the best football players ever, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
In November, the football star releases his second autobiography, called “I’m Football”.
“The co-author Mats Olsson, who us a frind of line, has spent many long interviews with Zlatan in the past two years,” says Karin Wahlén, president of the publishing company Bonnier thst is releasing the book.
It us seven years since Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 36, released his first autobiography.
In the book “I’m Zlatan Ibrahimovic” he talked about his csreer, background, the frosty relationship with Pep Guardiola and his tough youth in Rosengård in Malmö.
Now the striker opens up again. According to media the book provides a “unique insight” in the Swedish football career from 1999-2018 and is about everything from his time in Malmö FF to the move to the LA Galaxy in March.
– This is more a football book. It’s not about Zlatan, but about the football player Zlatan, ” says Karin Wahlén.
– This is one of our biggest stars, so we hope for a success for this book as well. It’s a very exciting and great book.
The biography also contains interviews with people who have been significant in the Ibrahim career, such as José Mourinho, Paul Pogba, Henrik Larsson and Mino Raiola.
The book will be released on November 8th.
President Donald Trump said he would pull out of the World Trade Organization if it doesn’t treat the U.S. better, continuing his criticism of a cornerstone of the international trading system.
“If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Trump said Thursday in an interview with Bloomberg News at the White House.
A U.S. withdrawal from the WTO would severely undermine the post-World War II multilateral trading system that the U.S. helped build.
Trump said last month that the U.S. is at a big disadvantage from being treated “very badly” by the WTO for many years and that the Geneva-based body needs to “change their ways.”
U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has said allowing China into the WTO in 2001 was a mistake. He has long called for the U.S. to take a more aggressive approach to the WTO, arguing that it was incapable of dealing with a non-market economy such as China.
“If they don’t shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO”
Lighthizer has accused the WTO dispute-settlement system of interfering with U.S. sovereignty, particularly on anti-dumping cases. The U.S. has been blocking the appointment of judges to the WTO’s appeals body, raising the possibility that it could cease to function in the coming years.
Sources: TIME, Bloomberg
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