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All UK visitors to Spain (12 yrs+) must now prove they have been fully vaccinated. A negative covid test is no longer an alternative option, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Rising covid cases, and the recent arrival of the Omicron variant,...

The government would do well to read the House of Lords EU committee report on Brexit impacts, recently debated in the Lords, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Once the government considered Brexit ‘done’, it wound down the scrutiny committees...

The British want to extend the 90 in 180-day rule and the Spanish authorities are calling for it; but it’s not that easy, writes Bremain Vice Chair Lisa Burton for Yorkshire Bylines.The biggest ‘selling point’ of Brexit was the ending of freedom of movement. Its...

How far would you go to protect your freedom of movement and EU citizenship rights, asks Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE, writing for West England Bylines? Many British citizens have taken the difficult decision to become citizens of an EU country. Here are personal...

Labour’s Brexit slogan was met with a mixed response, but will it deliver the election result the party’s seeking, asks Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines? Since the time of the Brexit referendum, the Labour party’s position on Brexit has been, shall...

The conference on the future of Europe is the largest consultation the European Union has ever undertaken with citizens, including those from the UK, writes Bremain in Spain Vice Chair Lisa Burton for Yorkshire Bylines. It is a vast, multilingual, digital, and...

If you’ve been reading the UK tabloids recently, you could be forgiven for thinking there is a mass exodus of British citizens – especially pensioners – repatriating from Spain to the UK, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for West England Bylines.On 3 October, the...

When will the next general election be held and what kind of impact will the pandemic and Brexit have on the choice of timing, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.  There has been much speculation over recent weeks and months about the timing of...

Over recent weeks, the EU has been promising to come up with practical proposals to resolve issues surrounding the Northern Ireland protocol, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. Those “far-reaching proposals” were finally announced by vice...

At the Conservative Party conference on Monday, Lord David Frost, chief Brexit negotiator, made a speech to a “pretty empty hall”, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines. In his speech, Frost claimed that Britain was entering a “renaissance” and...

Most people know that travelling during the covid pandemic has been challenging, with rapidly changing rules and regulations to follow, writes Bremain Vice Chair Lisa Ryan Burton for Yorkshire Bylines. On a recent visit to the UK from Spain, the differences in...

West Country Bylines has recently highlighted how Brexit is affecting the language teaching sector in the UK, with dire impacts on school trips abroad and on the TEFL sector in the UK. Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) has also, for many years, provided...

Ministers are keen to stress there is no fuel shortage and therefore no fuel crisis, just no actual fuel at the pumps, writes Bremain Chair Sue Wilson MBE for Yorkshire Bylines.Unless you have been asleep at the wheel, you might have noticed a slight problem with fuel...

Anyone ordering goods from the EU in 2021 has likely come in for a nasty shock to the wallet. The advertised price, paid in good faith when ordering online, has not been the end of the story, or to the costs. The same has applied to EU residents or businesses ordering...