Friday 31 March 2017

JAPAN TIMES Brexit Headlines: 1 Mar - 31 Mar 2017

The Japan Times
Brexit Headlines


Government, Japan Inc. trying to assess Brexit impact on U.K. operations

BUSINESSMAR 30, 2017

The government and private companies are stepping up efforts to assess the potential impact of Britain leaving the European Union as London formally notified Brussels of its withdrawal from the bloc. "There will be significant impact on businesses," Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Hiroshige Seko ...
U.K.'s May signs letter triggering British exit from EU

WORLD / POLITICSMAR 29, 2017

The U.K. started the clock on two years of negotiations to withdraw from the European Union on Wednesday, a divorce that will redefine the country's relationship with its largest trading partner and bring to an end decades of deepening political integration on the continent. Prime ...

WORLD / POLITICS   MAR 17, 2017

Prime Minister Theresa May rejected Scotland's bid to hold a referendum on 
independence before the U.K. leaves the European Union, the latest twist in the 
increasingly acrimonious fight over Brexit with the nationalist government in 
Edinburgh. While not ruling one out eventually, May's team said ...

COMMENTARY / WORLD   MAR 6, 2017
BY MARK LEONARD
As global power has shifted from the West to the "rest," the liberal world order has 
become an increasingly contested idea, with rising powers like Russia, China and 
India increasingly challenging Western perspectives.

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Let's all support the Great Repeal bill

The Great Repeal Bill is a win win for all sides in the Brexit process because it means all EU law becomes British law. This means we can keep what we want and dump what we want. This is what independence feels like and we should all support it


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A proud bill for a proud parliament
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John Redwood MP
On 31 March 2017 10:21
I am happy with the principles behind the proposed legislation facilitating Britain's exit from the European Union. Whilst we are leaving under the Treaty provisions, the actual legal abolition of EU power in the UK requires the repeal of the Act of Parliament which gave the EEC, then the EU, the powers in the first place.
The Bill is misdescribed as the Great Repeal Bill. It is really the Great Continuity Bill. Its prime purpose is to transfer all current directly acting EU laws and past court decisions into UK law.
It is therefore reassuring to all those who voted Remain because they liked current EU laws and protections, as this legislation will preserve them and make them UK requirements on our departure.
Labour and the Lib Dems were keen to stress their wish to see areas like employment law protected. This Bill does just that. They will therefore need to vote for the Bill to carry out their clearly expressed wish that every EU employment protection survives Brexit.
This should be an unusual Bill where the whole House wants to support it. There will of course be amendments which will cause debate and division, about how much detail has to be put into the Act itself. Anyone who does not vote for this Bill is supporting no continuity in our laws and uncertainties over what the law is in many fields.
Some are now saying what is the point of leaving the EU if we keep all the EU laws. The point is once they are UK laws, we in the UK can decide to keep them, improve them or remove them.
The UK government has reassured the Opposition that it has no wish or intention to repeal or dilute any of the employment protections that stem from EU law all the time it is in office.
The government does, however, wish to introduce new border controls and benefit and migration policies, which is only possible once we have taken back control and transferred the EU border and benefits law into UK law.
This will of course need UK primary legislation which will go through a full parliamentary process to change what we currently have. I also trust the government will want to put through a new fishing policy which is kinder to both our fish and our fishermen. That too will need a full Parliamentary process with new legislation.
I have commented before on the so called Henry VIII powers. Most modern Acts of Parliament have needed Statutory Instruments to implement them and handle the details.
The scope of this is debated by Parliament when the Act is passed. Each Statutory Instrument itself is put to Parliament, and Parliament can debate and vote on them if it wishes.
Mr. Redwood's writing is re-posted here by his kind permission. This and other articles are available at  johnredwoodsdiary.com
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/6537/let_s_all_support_the_great_repeal_bill

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ONE MILLION more migrants to come to Europe as EU action 'too little too late'

MORE than one million migrants are “in the pipeline” in Libya and hoping to reach European shores because the European Union has not done enough to tackle the crisis, a senior diplomat has said.

By ALETHA ADU
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More than a million migrants are said to be in the pipeline of reaching the EU
Joseph Walker-Cousins, former head of the British Embassy in Benghazi, accused the EU of doing “too little, too late” in regards to the migrant crisis.
Giving evidence at the House of Lords’ EU External Affairs Sub-Committee, the diplomat said the officials should have been patrolling Libya’s land borders 1,400km to the south.

Juncker: Europe in bad shape with the migrant crisis

But instead, he claimed, they chose to deal with migrants only when they were a “stone’s throw from Europe”.
Ultimately, the breakdown of border control is down to the collapse of the functioning government in Libya, he remarked.
Now a senior fellow at the Institute for Statecraft think-tank, Mr Walker-Cousins was critical of the failure of Western governments, including Britain, for failing to offer "leadership" after prompting the collapse of the Gadaffi regime.
According to the Mail, Mr Walker-Cousins said: “Up to a million migrants, if not more, are in the pipeline. They will take a long time to work their way through that pipeline but it is well-established.”
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was working to end the Libyan smugglers’ businesses, with 414 boats destroyed and 109 traffickers arrested.
Mr Walker-Cousins said he didn’t want to completely blame the EU for the crisis, but maintained there was a lack of care.
He added: “Then we can begin to restore border security along the land borders and achieve the desired results in terms of stemming the flow of migrants and prevent them putting themselves at the mercy of those gruesome, merciless traffickers.
“I don’t want to say there is a vacuum of ownership and leadership at the political level but that sort of engagement and that appetite to own what is going on in Libya does not seem to exist now in a way it did then.
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Italian border patrols pick up migrants
“No one really wants to own it – it is someone else’s mess.”
The diplomat’s remarks follow a fierce argument involving four EU leaders who claimed Brussels officials threatened to cut their aid funding if they refused to accept more asylum seekers.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/786136/EU-blasted-for-failing-deal-WORSENING-migrant-crisis-diplomat-Walker-Cousins-Gaddafi
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Thursday 30 March 2017

Taking back control starts TODAY: UK to use Great Repeal Bill to 'correct' 1,000 EU laws

THERESA May and her Brexit ministers will utilise the Great Repeal bill in order to quickly scrap reams of European Union rules and regulations without Parliament interfering.

By JOEY MILLAR
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David Davis will utilise the Great Repeal Bill to scrap EU laws
Just one day after the PM activated Article 50, the Government announced plans to scrap around 1,000 rules, using so-called Henry VIII powers which side-step the House of Commons and the House of Lords. 
Thousands more EU laws will be converted into British law before being adjusted or scrapped completely. 
secretary David Davis said it was time to “put right” a huge number of laws introduced and dictated by Brussels.
He said: “At the heart of the referendum decision was sovereignty. A strong, independent country needs control of its own laws. That process starts now.
"Converting EU law into UK law, and ending the supremacy of lawmakers in Brussels, is an important step in giving businesses, workers and consumers the certainty they need.
"And it will mean that as we seek a comprehensive new economic partnership with the EU, our allies will know that we start from a position where we have the same standards and rules.
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Around 1,000 EU laws will be quickly scrapped using 'Henry VIII' powers
There will be some things we want to put right
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“We won't want to change everything. There are lots of parts of EU law that we approve of, that are good, but there will be some things we want to put right.”
Other members of Government celebrated the prospect of ridding Britain of unnecessary red tape. 

David Davis makes no apologies for ambitious Brexit negotiation

Yesterday Boris Johnson joined Iain Duncan Smith in promising to “whittle away” EU laws.
The Foreign Secretary said: “It will be an opportunity for this country to get rid of some of the burdensome regulation that has accreted over the last 44 years.” 
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Boris Johnson celebrated the prospect of scrapping 'burdensome' EU rules
Mr Duncan Smith highlighted the cost benefits involved with shedding tedious and lengthly EU regulation - estimated by one think tank at £13 billion in savings per year. 
He said: “This is a huge undertaking and will in effect cover pretty much every domestic area.
"The list [of EU rules] stretches from banking and financial services, to agriculture and fisheries.
"Let us leave and then the Conservative Party at the next election needs to say, ‘we can reduce the cost on business and on individuals by reducing regulations which will improve our competitiveness, our productivity and therefore ultimately our economy.’”
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/785728/great-repeal-bill-brexit-eu-laws-regulations-david-davis-theresa-may
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