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Stena Line to end popular France-Ireland ferry crossing
Rival operators will continue to serve Cherbourg port as passenger numbers on route increase
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Red heatwave alerts continue as storms sweep across France
South-west and Brittany are the only areas likely to avoid storms this evening after several temperature records were broken in the south yesterday
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Air traffic controllers’ strike: Paris and south of France airports to face major disruption
Half of flights in Nice and Corsica, and a quarter in Paris are cancelled on July 3. Disruption is also expected on July 4 just before the French school holidays begin
Expat rights deal ‘may be close’
Britain may be close to agreeing a deal on reciprocal rights for existing British expats in the EU and EU citizens in Britain, it is being claimed.
Some of the British national media today state that ‘senior government figures’ have reassured business leaders that only a few remaining EU states have yet to agree to allow expats to maintain the right to continue to live and work in their adopted countries after a Brexit.
This is said to be leading to speculation that a deal may be announced at a Brussels summit in December.
This comes as British Prime Minister Theresa May told a leading business organisation, the CBI, that she is hoping for ‘an early agreement on the status of UK nationals in Europe and EU nationals here’.
However a government source told The Telegraph that while they “hope and expect to guarantee the reciprocal rights of EU and British citizens”, it is “premature and wrong” to suggest certainty.
“No deals have been struck, formal or informal,” the source said.
The chairman of the British Community Committee of France, Christopher Chantrey, said: “This is good news for us all.”