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1 online resource. |
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For dummies |
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--For dummies.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Foolish Assumptions; Icons Used in This Book; Beyond This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part 1: Getting Familiar with Brexit; Chapter 1: What Is Brexit and What Does It Mean for You?; The Votes Are In, But How Did We Get Here?; Looking at the 2016 results in more detail; Understanding the UK's complex relationship with Europe; Breaking Down the Brexit Timeline; Looking at the Key Elements of the Brexit Negotiations; Deal or No Deal? Brexit Goes Down to the Wire; How Businesses Reacted to the Brexit Decision |
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Assessing the Potential Impact of Brexit on Your BusinessTrading across borders; Dealing with logistics challenges; Managing the impact on employees and access to labor; Looking at other considerations; Planning for the impact on your business; Looking to life after Brexit; Chapter 2: The Road to Brexit: The UK's Rocky Relationship with the EU; From Empire to the Aftermath of World War II; The end of an empire; Keeping Europe at arm's length; Flares and Friends: The UK and Europe Cozy Up in the 1970s; Officially joining the club; Looking for greater influence in Europe |
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Things (Start To) Fall Apart: The UK and Europe in the 1980s and Early 1990sAlarm bells start ringing in the 1980s; Black Wednesday; The Maastricht Treaty; The increasing transfer of power; Rising Euroscepticism from the 1990s Onward; Right, Lads, Let's Have a Vote; Drawing the Battle Lines: Looking at the Key Issues in the Brexit Referendum; Britain's financial contributions to the EU; Immigration and free movement of people; The tricky issue of trade; UK sovereignty; Divided kingdom? How the referendum results played out across the UK; Meanwhile, what did the EU make of all this? |
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Part 2: Breaking Up Is Hard to DoChapter 3: Negotiating the UK's Exit from the EU; Understanding the Scope of the Withdrawal Agreement; The A-Team? Introducing Each Side's Negotiating Team; On the UK team; On the EU team; Exploring the Draft Withdrawal Agreement; It's going to cost how much?; Transitioning smoothly with the "transition period"; Abiding by EU laws; Formalizing citizens' rights; Why hasn't anything been agreed on trade yet?; Northern Ireland and the tricky issue of the "backstop"; Getting Parliamentary Agreement on the, er, Agreement; Voting on the withdrawal deal: Round 1 |
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Voting on the withdrawal deal: Round 2More votes, and Brexit is delayed (for the first time); Voting on the withdrawal deal: Round 3; Brexit is delayed . again; So, what happens next?; Chapter 4: Everybody Needs Good Neighbors: Looking at Long-Term UK-EU Relations; Understanding the Declaration on Future Relations and How It Differs from the Withdrawal Agreement; Trading in Goods and Services in the Future; Looking at the UK's potential trading relationship with the EU; Considering whether the UK can just trade with the EU under World Trade Organization rules |
| Summary |
Your practical and fearless guide to surviving the world's biggest break-up Whether you're a staunch Remainer, a buccaneering Brexiteer, or are wavering between the two camps, you'll want to be fully au fait with all the issues surrounding Britain's exit from the EU-wherever in the world you and your business are based. This book, by leading businessman and entrepreneur Nicholas Wallwork, will arm you with everything you need to negotiate the post-Brexit landscape and end up just where you need to be. Kicking off with the history behind the tightly fought June 23 referendum, Brexit for Dummies covers the origins of British Euroscepticism right up to the most recent legal and policy changes in place following the vote. As well as looking at the influence Brexit has already had-both domestically and internationally-the book takes a glimpse at what lies ahead, giving you vital insights into how to protect your business right now and to capitalize on new opportunities in the future. Changing customs: how to negotiate the new import-export rules Think global: how is Brexit influencing the international economy? Get moving: what do immigration policy changes mean for my business? Buy or sell?: make the smartest foreign investment decisions both inside and outside Britain Love it or loathe it, Brexit has profound implications for your business, and this guide will help you stop worrying and prove that au revoir doesn't mean goodbye for good. |
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European Union -- Great Britain.
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European Union |
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- European Union countries.
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Grande-Bretagne -- Relations extérieures -- Pays de l'Union européenne. |
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Diplomatic relations |
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European Union countries |
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Great Britain |
| Other Form: |
Print version: WALLWORK. BREXIT FOR DUMMIES. [Place of publication not identified] : JOHN WILEY & SONS, 2019 1119601223 (OCoLC)1084506076 |
| ISBN |
9781119601258 (electronic bk.) |
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1119601258 (electronic bk.) |
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9781119601265 (ePub ebook) |
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1119601266 |
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