Britain said Tuesday it had extended the bidding process for making its new post-Brexit passports amid a furore over a Franco-Dutch manufacturer being preferred to a UK one.
French authorities said on Wednesday they would fast-track the process for British-based financial firms to decamp to France after Britain quits the European Union.
France-based author Stephen Clarke spent a lot of time in the corridors of power in Brussels researching for his new book. Here he argues that the folk in suits at the EU should have got off their pedestal and joined the fight.
With the crucial, possibly life-changing EU referendum in Britain just two days away, and opinion polls suggesting a tight finish, Brits living in France are growing uneasy.
David Cameron's pledge to hold an in/out referendum on Britain's membership of the EU has been backed by France's far right National Front party, which wants the same in France, where views of the EU have soured over the years.
Details of the UK’s referendum bill were published on Thursday, but there was no mention of guaranteeing the vote to ALL British expats living in EU member states. An omission that has left many Brits in France angry and deeply concerned.
Germany and France have agreed to forge closer Eurozone ties without reopening the bloc’s treaties, a report in France has claimed. The move is seemingly designed to undermine UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s attempts to renegotiate his country’s ties to the EU.
