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Departure to cost EU 0.5% of GDP but UK 2.25% by end 2022, according to first official estimate since deal was agreedThe economic blow dealt by Brexit will be four times greater in the UK than the EU, according to the latest forecasts by Brussels.A month into the new relationship, the European commission said the UK’s exit on the terms agreed by Boris Johnson’s...

EU agrees to look for early common ground as PM asks it to ‘put a tiger in the tank’ of talks Boris Johnson has said there is no reason why the outline of a Brexit deal cannot be sealed by the end of July, after he asked EU leaders at a video summit to “put a tiger in the tank” of stalled talks.In a...

Buoyed by fire sales of public assets, a tiny minority of Greeks are thriving. Everyone else is mired in hopelessnessSpring is already in the air across Greece. Even in the bleakest of times, nature’s renaissance renders hope irrepressible. But this one is proving a cruel spring for a people caught up in a decade-old crisis yielding one ritual humiliation after another.Costas runs a small...