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| In your piece (Report, 2 September) you say the UK in a Changing Europe report concludes that “the status of legal contracts and commercial arrangements with EU companies would be unclear, as the UK would become a ‘third country’ overnight”. This is misleading. Legal contracts with EU firms will not be affected. The provisions of the regulation on choice of law for contracts do not distinguish between member and non-member states. Nothing will change after Brexit. What will be affected is the procedure for enforcement of UK court judgments in member states. The virtually automatic procedure for enforcement under the Brussels regulation will no longer be available to the UK.Simon BaughenProfessor of shipping law, Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law, Swansea University | |
| • Isn’t it time we put a stop to negotiations over Brexit with the EU (May’s Brexit blueprint is unworkable, says Barnier, 3 September)? It has no intention of a deal, and is set on punishment. That’s the brief given to Michel Barnier, and he has been ruthless and unswerving. | |
| As for the EU’s 27 countries, it’s time they paid the immense debt they owe the UK. Without what this country did for Europe between 1939 and 1945 there would be no EU. We alone of all the western European nations were able to stand up to the horrible racism and fascism of Nazism. Some of the 27 declared themselves “neutral”; others militarily supported the Nazis; and the rest were blitzed by the Nazis. Countries of north-west Europe were used to bomb us and starve us into submission. We suffered terribly on the behalf of Europe, for two years on our own. We didn’t liberate Europe, the Americans and Russians did that, but we kept the resistance alive – at immense cost to ourselves. | As for the EU’s 27 countries, it’s time they paid the immense debt they owe the UK. Without what this country did for Europe between 1939 and 1945 there would be no EU. We alone of all the western European nations were able to stand up to the horrible racism and fascism of Nazism. Some of the 27 declared themselves “neutral”; others militarily supported the Nazis; and the rest were blitzed by the Nazis. Countries of north-west Europe were used to bomb us and starve us into submission. We suffered terribly on the behalf of Europe, for two years on our own. We didn’t liberate Europe, the Americans and Russians did that, but we kept the resistance alive – at immense cost to ourselves. |
| The EU should remember how we made it possible for Europe to develop a union. They owe us. Michael Knowles Congleton, Cheshire | The EU should remember how we made it possible for Europe to develop a union. They owe us. Michael Knowles Congleton, Cheshire |
| • Can the PM, who has said a second referendum two years after the first would be an abuse of the democratic process, explain why the same is not true when she called a general election two years after the last one, when parliament has ordained that except in special circumstances parliaments should last for five years? Clive BradleyRichmond, Surrey | • Can the PM, who has said a second referendum two years after the first would be an abuse of the democratic process, explain why the same is not true when she called a general election two years after the last one, when parliament has ordained that except in special circumstances parliaments should last for five years? Clive BradleyRichmond, Surrey |
| • The no-deal Brexit plan is called Operation Yellow Hammer (Report, 7 September). Surely a grim portent of hard times. For what do all yellowhammers sing? As any birder will tell you: “A little bit of bread and no cheese.”Peter BettsLiverpool | |
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