Brexit in the Coronavirus Era
(WorldNews Europe)

Reaching a mutually beneficial Brexit deal has so far been beyond the reach of UK and European Union (EU) negotiators. Now that COVID-19 has struck, can they avoid a damaging split? COVID-19 has made the world a very different place from when we last wrote about Brexit. Back in January, we argued that the UK was likely to exit its transitional arrangement with the EU at the end of this year on either World Trade Organization (WTO) terms or with only a rudimentary trade deal-an outcome once called a hard Brexit. We thought this would make a recession in the UK more likely, leaving the pound vulnerable. Several months on, the probability of a disruptive Brexit outcome has increased....