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...One EU insider calls it the “fretful trio” of the Northern Ireland bill, ECHR membership and the UK data regime, which might not individually sink EU-UK relations, but when combined have the capacity to...
...This “what if” scenario is so contentious some officials and leaders do not want it discussed at all, but the topic could be impossible to avoid....
...Should her deal be thrown out again, Mrs May has warned that a longer extension may be needed, and the UK would have to take part in European Parliament elections in May....
...Ministers were summoned individually into Downing Street on Tuesday night to be briefed on the terms of the treaty, including the controversial provisions to avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland, and...
...“The Tory MEPs all want to go and work in the tech sector after Brexit,” said one senior official who complained about the delays in the European Parliament....
...Additional reporting by Alex Barker in Brussels...
...Email: alex.barker@ft.com Twitter: @alexebarker...
...Rolling stock factories in Asia are 60 per cent under-used, with their European and North American equivalents 40 per cent under capacity....
...Frank says relax Angela Merkel and her troublesome conservative partner Horst Seehofer met last night to sort out differences over migration....
...I discussed this matter with my aides and ministers, including those in charge of law enforcement agencies and other senior officials....
...This limits her room for manoeuvre on Ireland just as Brexiters in her cabinet and party are ready to pounce on any compromise that lessens the amount of power London takes back from Europe....
...According to official UN figures, the 2,500 asylum seekers on Chios make it the most overcrowded of the Greek islands relative to its 1,100 capacity....
...Her entry into wrestling, and her coach’s willingness to train young women alongside boys, initially met with resistance from her family and the community....
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...In July, he brokered an eleventh-hour agreement between Ms Merkel and her Greek counterpart, Alexis Tsipras, which narrowly avoided an exit from the euro....
...Ms Merkel is beset on all sides domestically and isolated abroad. The arrival of 1.1m refugees into Germany has eroded her once soaring popularity and that of her governing CDU/CSU bloc....
...Additional reporting by Alex Barker, James Politi and Henry Foy...
...“We’re suffering here,” said Suhela Sahaddoun, a 33-year-old Syrian who was travelling with her two daughters, aged 4 and 11, and her son, aged 13....
...Any settlements agreed in principle with HMRC officials in mediations must comply with the LSS, and must be signed off by senior officials....
...For her to do so while Mr Barroso’s commission was assessing Europe’s biggest telecoms merger in a decade was even more striking....
...of its rights over a technology essential for the rest of the smartphone industry, write Chris Nuttall and Alex Barker....
...But eurozone officials admit that fund – which is the Europe’s main crisis fighting tool until at least July – will either need to trim its lending capacity to maintain its triple A rating, or face higher...
...Two women stood up and walked out; another audience member turned her back on Blair and faced the wall....
...According to Samuel Huhta, the state-run school he heads in a suburb of Stockholm has capacity for 600 pupils and used to have that number on its rolls....
...Solar technology was far less developed in 2001 when local officials first raised the possibility of exploiting the area’s abundance of sunlight to create jobs and revenue in a poor rural area with no industry...
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