Today I spoke avout Brexit and Borders in front of a full house at the Transport & Logistics Fair in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
My colleagues from KGH Netherlands has a great stand at the exhibition.
Netherlands is naturally with its leading trading nation profile and geographical position showing a great ibterestbin Brexit, Customs, trade and borders.
It was a good crowd, many good questions and a good debate.
Today I am speaking about Brexit at the Transport & Logistics Fair in Rotterdam.
You find me on stage at 12.00. Don’t miss it!
The European Union plans to have a 29-strong team of diplomats in London to represent it after Brexit.
It will be called a “delegation” – not an embassy – and will be part of the EU’s foreign policy arm, the European External Action Service (EEAS).
There will also be a mission with five staff in Belfast to oversee the implementation of the withdrawal agreement in Northern Ireland – if there is a Brexit deal.
The plans will be discussed next week.
They will be presented for approval by ambassadors from the 27 remaining EU countries on Wednesday.
The European Commission has offices in all member states. Currently it has a team of 27 staff based at Europe House, in Smith Square, Westminster.
Once the UK leaves the EU in March next year, that office will be replaced by a new London outpost for the EEAS.
It will be about a third of the size of its equivalent in Washington DC, which has 90 personnel – although only 30 of them are classed as European diplomats.
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