May.21 — Relations between U.K. and European Union officials have been under strain for more than a month. Unless they can bridge them before before ties are severed at the end of the year, Britain will leave the EU’s single market and customs union without a trade deal in place, spelling disruption and extra cost for businesses and consumers already reeling from the coronavirus. Wolfgang Munchau, co-founder and president of Eurointelligence, assesses the risks in an interview on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”
In This Story: Brexit
Brexit is the name given to the United Kingdom’s exiting the European Union, which happened on 31 January 2020, following a narrow “Leave” referendum result in a June 2016 vote on EU Membership which took place in the country. News items related to Brexit are posted, below, chronologically, with the most recent items at the top, from a variety of outlets.