Meat producer Danish Crown has announced that it needs to make savings of 350 million kroner (47 million euros) and will therefore cut 300-400 jobs. Most of the job losses will be in the United Kingdom, and the impact on employees in Denmark will be “relatively limited,” the company said. “We have, in recent months, won several important contracts in the United Kingdom, so things are moving in the right direction sales-wise,” CEO Jais Valeur said via a press statement on Wednesday. “But that does not change the fact that our costs are still too high, so job losses will occur as part of a thorough reorganisation of [British daughter company] Tulip Ltd,” Valeur added. Brexit is one of a number of factors contributing to challenges faced by the company, Valeur told Ritzau on Wednesday. “There are difficulties on the British market. Last week, Tesco, the largest supermarket (in the UK), announced 9,000 job losses. When our customers are … [Read more...] about Danish Crown announces large-scale redundancies in United Kingdom
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United Kingdom must continue to accept asylum seekers until Brexit is official
The European Court of Justice ruled today that the United Kingdom must continue to accept asylum seekers in accordance with European Union law up to the point that Brexit becomes official. The case stems from a family of three seeking asylum in Ireland. Originally, the family lived in the UK under a student visa for one parent and a dependent visa for the other parent. When the school closed down, both the student and the dependent visa expired. After their visas expired, the family moved to Ireland and filed for asylum there. Under the Dublin III Regulation, asylum applications are usually handled by the first country the applicants entered the EU through. When Ireland sought to move the case to the UK, the family contested on the grounds of the UK invoking Article 50 TEU. Article 50 governs how an EU member state can withdraw from the union. The High Court of Ireland issued a stay of proceedings in order to ask the European Court of Justice if invoking Article 50 precludes a … [Read more...] about United Kingdom must continue to accept asylum seekers until Brexit is official
Brexit vote reaction: ‘Parliament has acted in the best interests of the entire United Kingdom’
Northern Ireland’s political leaders have been reacting to the emphatic rejection of Theresa May’s EU withdrawal deal. Mrs May lost this evening’s vote in the House of Commons by a massive 432 votes to 202. DUP leader Arlene Foster said the focus now must be on “securing a better deal for the UK”, while the UUP’s Robin Swann called on the government to “grab the process by the scruff of the neck and seek an extension to Article 50.”Alliance Party leader Naomi Long MLA renewed her call for a second referendum, saying “now is the time for a People’s Vote”, and Sinn Fein’s Northern Ireland leader Michelle O’Neill said the result of the vote had “deepened the Brexit crisis.”Reacting to the result of the vote, Mrs Foster said: “By rejecting the Withdrawal Agreement, Parliament has acted in the best interests of the entire United Kingdom. The House of Commons has sent an unmistakable message to … [Read more...] about Brexit vote reaction: ‘Parliament has acted in the best interests of the entire United Kingdom’
Beware Prime Minister, letting the EU fracture the United Kingdom is bad for us all
Emma Little-Pengelly DUP MP and international trade spokeswoman Follow 14 November 2018 • 6:36pm Just a few months ago, the Prime Minister rightly rejected the toxic EU proposal to interfere with the UK single market, saying “no British Prime Minister could ever sign up to it”. Understandably so, as such a proposal would fundamentally damage our constitutional integrity. A deal which contains such proposals, which is what is being reported as I write this, means she has failed even her own test. Be not mistaken, fracturing our United Kingdom, constitutionally or economically, is bad for all of us across this country. The constitutional significance of breaking the UK single market cannot be over-estimated. Our Union would never be the same again, diminished to the detriment of our national... To continue reading this article Start your free trial of Premium Access all Premium articles Subscriber-only events … [Read more...] about Beware Prime Minister, letting the EU fracture the United Kingdom is bad for us all
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tells unionists ‘we respect the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom’
The taoiseach has told unionists he recognises it is a "difficult time" for them amid reports the north could have special status in the Brexit plan the British government has negotiated with the EU. Leo Varadkar told the Dáil today: "I know that for the unionist community in Northern Ireland at the moment that this quite a difficult time, I know many of them may be feeling vulnerable, many of them may be feeling isolated and many of them may be quite worried about what may be agreed in the coming days. "I want to say to them that the Good Friday Agreement will be protected and that includes a recognition that we respect the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and that we respect the principle of consent that there can be no change of the constitutional status of Northern Ireland unless a majority of people in Northern Ireland say so. "We're very happy to have that written into any agreement giving them that legal guarantee." An emergency summit of European leaders … [Read more...] about Taoiseach Leo Varadkar tells unionists ‘we respect the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom’