Brexit, United Kingdom outside the European single market

Published on: 01/01/2021 8:34 AM

With the arrival of the new year, the UK has officially left the European single market after 47 years. At 11pm in Italy, at midnight in London, the transitional period ended during which the United Kingdom continued to respect the rules of the European community.

Yesterday Queen Elizabeth signed the bill for future relations between the European Union and Great Britain, thus allowing the Brexit agreement to become law. Queen Elizabeth’s signing came after the House of Lords, as well as the House of Commons, ratified the Brexit deal unopposed. Therefore, the parliamentary process concluded in just one day.

In 2021, the British Prime Minister said Boris johnson in his end-of-year speech, “we have our freedom in our hands and it is up to us to make the most of it.” Referring to the end of the Brexit transition period, the prime minister said that in 2021 the UK will be “free to do things differently and, if necessary, better than our friends in the EU.” stressed that the country “will work with partners around the world, not just to address climate change, but to create the millions of highly-skilled jobs we will need not only in 2021 as we recover from Covid, but also throughout the years. “. come”.