Whilst the Windsor Framework of early 2023 ended the deadlock in UK-EU relations, it took another year of talks between the UK government and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which continued to reject the provisions of the Windsor Framework, to re-establish the devolved government. [...] The Commission’s annual report also highlighted concerns about the impact of the Retained EU Law Act on the level playing field and of the Data Protection and Digital Information (No 2) Bill on the free flow of personal data between the EU and the UK. [...] means the host in the second half of the year, the Hungarian government, had to push back its summit to accommodate the UK. [...] Nevertheless, the issue of who manages the airport, the location of which is on the isthmus, remains the major sticking point. [...] The EU and the UK continue to work together well at the technical level to implement the TCA.
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Table of Contents
- UK-EU RELATIONS UK-EU RELATIONS 1
- TRACKER TRACKER 1
- INTRODUCTION 2
- This edition of UK in a Changing Europes UK-EU relations tracker looks at developments in the first quarter of 2024. 2
- NORTHERN IRELAND 3
- UK-EU RELATIONS 3
- WITHDRAWAL AGREEMENT 3
- CITIZENS RIGHTS 4
- OPERATION OF THE TCAS INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK 4
- PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL AND TRADE SPECIALISED COMMITTEES 4
- PARLIAMENTARY PARTNERSHIP ASSEMBLY 5
- ONGOING TCA IMPLEMENTATION 5
- ENERGY 5
- LEVEL PLAYING FIELD 6
- FISHERIES 6
- BORDER CONTROLS 6
- UK-EU COOPERATION BEYOND THE TCA 7
- FINANCIAL SERVICES 7
- FRONTEX 7
- YOUTH MOBILITY 8
- FOREIGN AND SECURITY COOPERATION 8
- DEFENCE 9
- EUROPEAN POLITICAL COMMUNITY 9
- AREAS OF COOPERATION 11
- BILATERAL RELATIONS 11
- IRELAND 12
- SPAIN 12
- DEVELOPMENTS IN BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH SPECIFIC MEMBER STATES 12
- FRANCE 13
- CONCLUSION 15