Brexit Agreement Between Greece and Germany over UK Based EU Agencies. New Garden Fence.

Frost on the car 2016

There has been an unexpected political breakthrough with Brexit. Not between the UK and the other EU countries, but between Germany and Greece, according to Der Spiegel (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/brexit-deutschland-und-griechenland-wollen-britische-eu-institutionen-aufteilen-a-1178477.html)

They have come to an agreement to help each other with the relocation of EU institutions that will have to relocate out of the UK on Brexit. 

The Greeks have agreed to support the move of the European Banking Authority (EBA), which regulates banking in the EU, to Frankfurt in Germany. 

In return, Germany suggested and now supports the relocation of the European Medicines Agency, responsible for the the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human and veterinary use to protect both humans and animals, to Athens in Greece. The final decisions on the relocation of EU agencies out of the UK into other EU countries is to occur in the coming weeks. It looks like a major fence-mending initiative between the two countries after the vilification of Germany during the Greek financial crisis and vice versa.

Whilst only 72 UK citizens of the approximately 1000 EU staff will have to leave the agency once they are no longer EU citizens, these are flagship organisations that have a major impact throughout the EU.

Andy and assistant came by today to replace the dilapidated one third of our garden fence. The major battle was to deal with the tree roots that had to be removed from the locations where the fence-posts were to be concreted in. Hard work with shovel, chainsaw and borrowed neighbour's axe were finally rewarded with the fence installed before the afternoon light disappeared and temperatures began to plummet again towards freezing.