Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The EU has missed its chance to draw Britain back into its close commercial and regulatory orbit. Brussels pitched its demands too high. Each British trade deal with another country or bloc closes the window further on a return to the EU single market and customs union. The agreements with India and the US follow rapidly on Britain’s accession to the East Asia-Latin America trade pact (CPTPP). A deal with the Gulf states is coming soon. These are large parts of the world economy.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

The EU is still pushing maximalist demands for the UK-EU "reset" later this month as if little had changed. The Brussels text says the UK must submit to "dynamic alignment" to lower barriers on trade in food and animal products (SPS), rather than on the basis of "mutual recognition" as in the EU's trade with New Zealand. This is justified in EU double-speak on the grounds that the UK is near while the Antipodes are far away. Let us just call it a naked power play.

1 week ago | stuff.co.nz | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

1 week ago | smh.com.au | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard May 2, 2025 — 6.20pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron have together pulled off a remarkable feat of high statecraft. They may have averted a strategic debacle of the first order in Ukraine, and with it irreparable damage to the credibility of the West.

1 week ago | watoday.com.au | Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

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