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Guardian correspondent covering international trade from European perspective, also post Brexit affairs and Ireland Former Brussels corr, Brexit corr + former media corr. Find me at lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com
Volkswagen announce 50,000 job cuts as pre tax profits fall 54%.
But over in France, Renault is moving forward faster with EV transition announced it will end fuel only cars in 2030.
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Mike Tapp migration minister hints terorrist in UK shd be deported.
Asked about Shamima Begum by Lord Dubs: could be argued that at 15 she was trafficked into a terrorist org.
Tapp: "I maintain my, statement that if you join a terror organization to to harm this country, you shouldn't be here."
Chris Bryant asked is any EU member states also share UK concern about lock out for UK auto?
"I m told there are others making a different argument," he says quickly adding: "I'm visiting Paris on Tuesday"
Chris Bryant: "I am determined to win" on the arguments over car corporate fleets to be include in the Eu's Made in Europe industrial accelerator act.
Says negotiations are with industry, commission, Eu parliamnet and all member states.
Pointed out that CEO of BMW has said it damages Mem States.
"Brexit was probably not the wisest things we have done in our life for our trading arrangements," Chris Bryant, UK trade minister. 46% of our trade is done with the EU.
Defra announcement of plans to align on certain EU rules in food and farming are designed to "help businesses prepare" for the sanitary and phyto sanitary agreement, trade select committee told by top civil servant
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The UK is "working with the US" on the legal text of the pharma deal it struck last year. - Kate Joseph, Director General, Economic Security and Trade Relations, Department for Business and Trade has told UK trade select committee
Bryant favours transparency but not clear if it will be published
Chris Bryant reiterates red lines on US trade talks re meat.
"We have extremely rigorous foods standards in the UK and we're not going to surrender them."
UK minister Chris Bryant tells trade select committee steel trade safeguards shd be announced by 1 April
" I don't have any intention of disappointing Tata Steel. We can expect an announcement within the next month"
Current safeguards expire 30 June
"I am absolutely certain there will not be a gap"
UK Government announces it will comply with EU rules in certain food and farming practices - a precursor to an SPS deal.
Detailed announcement by Defra here.
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Blog post here
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Rupert Murdoch will be 95 on Wednesday. Party last night - with video tribute from Donald Trump who is suing Murdoch's Wall Street Journal for 10bn over that Epstien birthday book
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New: Portugal fined €10m for not complying with environmental obligations by European Court of Justice. Portugal’s territory hosts rich biodiversity, including 99 habitat types and 335
species covered by the Habitats Directive and ECJ found it did not assign areas of special conservation interests
Is the EU's Made in Europe announcement a victory for the UK?
More likely to be a victory for Ireland and Germany
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EU competition commissioner Sejourne:"Europe needs to be an full industrial base and not just an assembly line. "
Also wants to speed up industrialisation and will create new zones, the industrial equivalent to Natura 2000, he said.
EU's Made in Europe criteria. Investments of more than €100m
- 50% of staff in Europe
- 51% of capital shd be Europe
-. 1% turnover needs to be invested in R&D in Europe
- 30% of components from Europe
Partners will be judged on location of factory etc not on nationality - which opens path for UK
NEW: Keir Starmers attempt to reset relationship with the EU lacks direction, definition and drive - foreign affairs select committee report on the UK/EU relationship.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Paul Conroy, photojournalist partner to Marie Colvin, dies aged 61
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Great reporting by @londoncentric.media @jim.londoncentric.media extraordinary story
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New: British/Danish couple tell of stress of not knowing if their children will be allowed board flight home from holidays tomorrow. They are angry there was no effective communication about new rules affecting dual national kids: they learned about when away.
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Home Office - denies "absurd" criticism that it did not communicate dual national border rule change
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Thank you Martin. It is the power, or maybe lack of power in this case, of mainstream media, the Guardian that is free to access around the worlds we had 1.4m page views of first story on 13 Feb and hundreds of emails from people who knew nothing of change which suggests not many people read gov.uk
First and prob last time my name has been called out in British Parliament - over the Guardian’s coverage of dual nationals issue. Listen to end for Home Office minister reply. Apart from his assertion that Home Office putting something on gov.uk = comms, he doesn’t address the pain of Constituents
That first story generated hundreds of emails to my inbox from British dual nationals stressed, stuck and worried they would lose money on imminent trips. Many said they don't look at gov.uk when flying home and first they knew about it was when we wrote about it. I am still getting emails.
Mike Tapp home office minister in reply:
"I'm going to let him into a little secret here that perhaps that media coverage is as a result of the home office's efforts to get this information out there as widely as we possibly can."
This is not true. Our first story on 13 Nov - had 1.4m readers
Mike Tapp UK minister to David Davis
"I'm going to let him into a little secret here that perhaps that media coverage is as a result of the home office's efforts to get this information out there as widely as we possibly can."
I can confirm this: This is untrue. Stories were generated by readers
DAvid Davis in parliament today
I am going to take the unusual stop of Madam Deputy Chief of actually thanking two journalists. These are Lisa O'Carroll guardian and whoever writes the BBC website. ... that's relevant because I've got 3 constituents who would not have known about this...
Hello British dual nationals:
If you have been, or know anyone who has been, refused board on a flight, ferry or train to the UK in the coming days, they can share their story here. Or email me direct - email in bio.
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V good blog post on the legality of Home Office decision to ignore pleas of British dyal nationals who from 2day must show UK passport to board flight to UK.
As one reader wrote to me. "This is a transition failure" by HO leading to "hard denial" of rights by HO
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