Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament

Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by purple_ducks on Thursday January 17, 2019 @04:45AM (#18929547)

re: 1) That article is about a French multinational oil company entering a commercial agreement with Iran. This doesn't relate to an EU member state doing a "side" trade treaty with a non-EU member.

Any other EU company could have done the same.

re: 2) Seems like that provision was in the agreement Switzerland made with the EU:

from: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/business/freedom-of-movement_sw...

> Switzerland first activated such a safeguard clause – a controversial instrument of its complex dealings with the EU – in 2012, to limit the number of citizens arriving from certain new member countries who joined the EU in 2004..

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Re:Brexit Deal Fails in Parliament by inflagranti on Thursday January 17, 2019 @05:22AM (#18929689)

From my understanding the Switzerland negotiated clause re Romania and other late joiners was timebound, which is why it was acceptable.

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