Updated on 11/21/2021 11:27 am The booster vaccine against Covid-19 and immunity from infection can help the United Kingdom do not repeat the strong rebound in infections registered in some European countries, said this Sunday Andrew Pollard, researcher of the preparation prepared by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca. The UK has started supplying a […]
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England and the US differ in communication of monetary policy
The Bank of England’s dispute with the financial markets over how to communicate monetary policy is not the first. Until investors recognize how the UK central bank’s approach differs from the US Federal Reserve’s guidance, more confrontations are likely. If there is one lesson to be learned from the reaction against the Bank of England’s […]
Shell wants to transfer its tax headquarters to the UK and sparks outrage in the Netherlands
The Anglo-Dutch oil company Royal Dutch Shell announced that it wants to transfer its headquarters and fiscal residence to the United Kingdom, a decision criticized by the Dutch government. The group wants “align your tax residence with the country in which you are registered, the United Kingdom”, Where he also plans to move the offices […]
EU warns UK not to press emergency Brexit button
Updated on 11/05/2021 12:18 pm The European Union (EU) stated that the UK has not moved to seek a compromise on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland and warned London against activating the unilateral emergency provisions of the deal. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit negotiator David Frost ruled out immediate activation of such provisions, a move […]
UK Approves Merck’s COVID-19 Pill
Updated on 04/11/2021 07:50 am The United Kingdom announced on Thursday that it is the first country in the world to authorize molnupiravir, the tablet treatment against COVID-19 developed by the US laboratory Merck. “Today is a historic day for our country, because the United Kingdom is now the first country in the world to […]
The United Kingdom removes the last countries it had on its red list for COVID-19, including Peru
Updated on 10/28/2021 01:34 pm The British government on Thursday removed the last seven countries from its red list, which limits entry to England to British residents or citizens, on the condition that they are quarantined in a hotel, to fight COVID-19. The measure affects Colombia, Panama, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Peru and Venezuela, […]
G7 countries make breakthrough in digital trade and data, UK announces
The Group of Seven Rich Countries (G7) agreed to the principles that will govern cross-border data use and digital commerce, the UK reported, describing it as a breakthrough that could liberalize hundreds of billions of dollars of international trade. The G7 trade ministers reached an agreement at a meeting in London on Friday. The agreement […]
Elizabeth II cancels trip to Northern Ireland and will rest for medical advice
Updated 10/20/2021 09:28 am Queen Elizabeth II canceled a trip scheduled for this Wednesday to Northern Ireland on medical advice and will rest for the next few days, reported a spokesman for Buckingham Palace, her official residence in London. In a statement, the same source indicated that the 95-year-old sovereign, “have reluctantly accepted medical advice […]
The new post-Brexit economic model sparks debate in the UK
In the midst of a supply and labor crisis, the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced that in the post-Brexit era the United Kingdom it will no longer depend on immigration to rescue the market, in order to promote an economy of “high wages and qualifications”. Economists and affected sectors are now weighing the consequences […]