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The Britain it’s officially outside the single European market. At midnight, four and a half years after the referendum on Brexi, the transition period is over and business relationships between Great Britain and the European Union will now be regulated by the agreement signed by European leaders and the British Prime Minister Boris johnson On Christmas’ Eve. “We have freedom in our hands,” Johnson said in his year-end address. But the independence prime minister of Scotland Nicola sturgeon He tweeted: “Scotland will be back soon, Europe. Keep the light on“Brexit bolstered support for the UK’s breakup after referendum separatist 2016 when opponents of independence prevailed.
The agreement of free trade, without quotas or customs duties, concluded in extremis with Brussels, it avoids an abrupt break in relations between the two sides of the Canal, potentially devastating from an economic point of view. But the free movement of goods and people ceases. SinceErasmus Alabama roamingThis is what will change for the hundreds of thousands of Italians and Europeans who look to the UK as a tourist, work and study destination.
The EU-UK Association Agreement on Trade and Cooperation enters into force today.
This will form a solid foundation for our continued friendship with the UK. But there will be big changes.
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Travel and work – The most immediate turning point refers, in a more severe and restrictive sense, to the rules on displacements. Now you need the passport (visa free) to travel to the UK and stay there up to three months. For a longer period, in case you intend to stay for work or study reasons, it will be necessary viewed similar to those currently required for non-EU foreigners. To limit entries, including those from the EU, priority lists linked to owning a work contract already guaranteed, with a annual gross minimum wage of at least £ 25,600 (more than 28,000 euros). All within a filtering system of point entries where the level of specialization and command of the English language. On the other hand, a fast track entry is provided to obtain a visa for i health workers.
The visa issue does not involve the more than 4 million Europeans, including 700,000 Italians, already living and working in the UK. To maintain your pre-Brexit rights, you remain subject to registration, no later than June 2021, in the so-called registry. ‘EU settlement scheme’, established in digital form at the Home Office, guaranteeing treatment equivalent to that of British citizens.
University and Erasmus – Those who enroll in university from 2021 will pay a full tuition, like non-EU citizens, who, depending on the universities, can reach the equivalent of more than 30,000 euros per academic year. In addition, Great Britain abandons the Erasmus exchange program between European students, considered too expensive by the conservative Johnson government and used so far more by continental children for study periods on the island than by young British people attracted to the universities of the EU countries. A program that London has announced that it wants to replace with a new global exchange scheme, extended to American or Asian universities, and named after the English mathematician Alan Turing (the one that revealed the secrets of the German Enigma ciphers during WWII). The Minister of Education, Gavin Williamson, It has promised an initial allocation of 100 million pounds, which will cover the costs of global study stays for 35,000 students on the island from next year, compared to around 15,000 in the last Erasmus.
Telephone roaming – The question mainly refers to who will want to go to the UK for tourism. Until now, Italian citizens have been able to use their rate plans as if they were in Italy thanks to a European law that came into force three years ago. With Brexit, things will change, unless agreements are reached in the coming months, and those who own Italian sims will have to consult their telephone operator roaming charges.
Homework – The application of border tariffs on goods and products exported from the United Kingdom and Europe will be almost completely avoided and there will be no limit to the amount of products that can be traded between the two countries. Regarding fisheries, a sector with low economic impact that had become one of the main obstacles during the negotiations of the agreement, Europe renounces a quarter (in value) of the quota of fish caught in UK waters, and much less 80% initially requested by Great Britain. The system will be in effect for 5 and a half years, after which the fees will be reviewed.
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