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Podcast: Beyond Currency
Episode: 12 February 2021 - EU trying to shut London out
Description: "The developing row between London and Brussels over UK access to the EU’s financial markets is beginning to turn ugly.
The EU Commission appears to be stealthily working behind the scenes to not only promote Paris and Frankfurt as alternatives to London but to actively limit UK access.
The work towards an agreement is something of a phoney war. On the surface, the UK is unwilling to agree that it will mirror EU regulation for financial services, since it cannot agree in advance to any change in regulation that it may deem to be detrimental to its interests.
However, th...