Ema and eba are eu agencies so they don't count because it was obvious they would leave.
Big medical businesses will move towards locating HQ near agencies. One should look ahead as new businesses and R&D budgets become available where will they be established or monies spent. Then there are standards, regulation and tariffs; major decisions which are yet to be considered.
To belittle the impact of this decision is poor judgement imo. Especially so if we default on bill, EU will take a much harder stance on standards as it suits 27 countries and gradually the ground will shift.
The motor industry letters and concerns with letters to the government isn't representative of leaving. It's scaremongering without any substance. Have they moved a single job yet? Nope
Same point applies as before. These moves entail high costs in millions moving assembly and production plants. That league table of car production shows UK was 4th in EU. We'll have to revisit that table in another 10 years time post hard brexit to see where it moves to?
For you to suggest well they haven't moved yet is short sighted imo. Most businesses are expecting a transition period. Transition period that was ruled out as not necessary only for Davis to reconsider and subsequently take up after businesses enlightened him. So businesses are either making plans or waiting for deal with a view to implementing over transition deal.
Airbus is threatening to leave the UK but their reasoning is baseless because there is no tariffs on aviation parts. They have stated the event of not having a transitory arrangement because they fear disruptions through bottlenecks at ports. The threat has yet to be met with any tangible evidence of them shifting to the eu.
Airbus Exec provided a warning and indicated their operations will not fare well post WTO delays. They must consider relocation if they are to supply Airbus production as there is nothing to prevent France or Italy taking over wing production or even Airbus buying Boeing engines in return for favourable access to US with reduced tariffs. You call it a threat??? You do not see a warning or possible dangers? Once again it would be very foolish to ignore what the CEO's of these companies say suggesting they are simply bluffing. Money is fluid and profits don't really care much for borders.
Both Morgan Stanley and goldman like other UK investment banks have had to move a very small portioof their workforce to the eu. They all initially said tens of thousands but late last year it surfaced that it was a few hundred.
Once again small now but 10, 20 years from now that trickle will turn into something bigger. It is foolish to dismiss it as some small portion. There is a magnifier effect in loss of tax revenue and expenditure from lost earnings from jobs shifting to EU.
Deutsche Bank Sees Brexit Moves in Hundreds, Not Thousands (
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...ndreds-of-staff-in-brexit-hoops-says-jciztky1)
Despite the future uncertainty of Brexit, pharmaceutical industry continues to invest in UK R&D (
https://www.news-medical.net/news/2...al-industry-continues-to-invest-in-UK-RD.aspx)
The data published on Disclosure UK – the pharmaceutical industry’s database of payments and benefits in kind made to UK healthcare professionals (HCPs) and organizations (HCOs) – shows industry spent £370.9 million on partnerships relating to research and development¹ activities in the UK during 2017. This is a 9.7% increase on 2016 (£338.1 million).
There is something strange about that article as it relates to payments made to healthcare professionals and organisations. Why mix the two up? Moreover 371m is a drop in the ocean.
Industry is considering moving operations to EU. As the hard brexit WTO and disputes come into play all this will increasingly take their toll on the industry. This FT article highlights the complexity of it all which will unwind in years to come to new operational locations. In the absence of a working deal, companies will move to be near consumers with least resistance to market access.
https://www.ft.com/content/85c0152e-ce96-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc
Once again shocked at the head in stand approach to "well they haven't moved have they - it's all scare mongering".
Threats and propaganda around brexit are as far as I can see nothing more than hot air.
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