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$Illustration on China's influence on Europe by Linas Garsys\The Washington Times$

Europe capitulates to China’s rulers

By Clifford D. May

A woman walks at the border of Gibraltar with Spain, seen from the neighbouring Spanish city of La Linea on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. An 11th-hour breakthrough in protracted negotiations will keep open Gibraltar's border with Spain following the United Kingdom's full departure from the European Union. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo)

Virus, more than Brexit fallout, worry in and near Gibraltar

By EMILIO MORENATTI and ARITZ PARRA - Associated Press

A nurse prepares a vaccine prior to the vaccination of elderly people at a nursing house in Athens, Monday, Jan. 4, 2021. Vaccinations were expanded from 9 to 50 hospitals nationwide on Monday. (Louisa Gouliamaki/Pool via AP)

EU rejects criticism for slow vaccine rollout across bloc

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 29, 2020 file photo, European Council President Charles Michel speaks with EU leaders during an EU Summit video conference at the European Council building in Brussels, to address the need to strengthen the collective effort to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. A last-minute trade deal with the United Kingdom coupled with the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines in the final days of the year produced a sense of success for the 27-nation bloc and brought glimmers of hope to the EU's 450 million residents. (Olivier Hoslet/Pool via AP, File)

EU avoided chaos, explored new paths in turbulent 2020 year

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

People watch the first truck, from Estonia, entering the Eurotunnel terminal Friday, Jan.1, 2021 in Coquelles, northern France. Eleven months after Britain's formal departure from the EU, Brexit becomes a fact of daily life on Friday, once a transition period ends and the U.K. fully leaves the world's most powerful trading bloc. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, Pool)

Quiet New Year gives breathing room after UK-EU Brexit split

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, March 16, 2017 file photo, Stanley Johnson poses for a portrait as he talks to the Associated Press at the London Book Fair, in London, about his forthcoming thriller based around a fictitious Brexit scenario. As Britain prepares to split from the European Union, the father of Prime Minister Boris Johnson appears to be seeking closer ties with the bloc by applying for French citizenship. Stanley Johnson told broadcaster RTL on Thursday Dec. 31, 2020, that he was in the process of “reclaiming” his French identity. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

Broadcaster: Boris Johnson’s father seeks French citizenship

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U.K. reaches deal with Spain to keep open Gibraltar border

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Medical student Mara Karcher vaccinates a resident Ella Holdenried of Sankt Verena nursing home in Strassberg, Germany, Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2020. German authorities have reported more than 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths in one day for the first time since the pandemic began. The national disease control center, the Robert Koch Institute, said Wednesday that 1,129 more deaths were reported over the past 24 hours. (Felix Kaestle/dpa via AP)

EU reviews BioNTech request for ‘extra dose’ of virus shot

By MIKE CORDER and FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson signs the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement at 10 Downing Street, London Wednesday Dec. 30, 2020. The U.K. left the EU almost a year ago, but remained within the bloc’s economic embrace during a transition period that ends at midnight Brussels time —- 11 p.m. in London — on Thursday. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President Charles Michel signed the agreement during a brief ceremony in Brussels on Wednesday morning then the documents were flown by Royal Air Force plane to London for Johnson to add his signature. (Leon Neal/Pool via AP)

Britain ends long Brexit journey with economic break from EU

By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 25, 1957 file photo, then Mayor of Rome Umberto Tupini, standing at center right, addresses delegates of six west European Nations; France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg, gathered inside the Oriazi and Curiazi Hall of Rome's Campidoglio Capitoline Hill to sign a treaty establishing the European Economic Community (EEC). Eleven months after Britain’s formal departure from the EU, Brexit becomes a fact of daily life on Friday, Jan. 1, 2021. Brexit marks the end of an awkward relationship. Britain joined the then-European Economic Community in 1973, but never fully embraced the bloc's project of ever-closer integration. (AP Photo, Files)

Brexit’s choice for EU, UK: firm friends or nearby rivals

By RAF CASERT and JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press

In this Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, file photo, a colleague wears a Christmas hat as European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier, center, carries a binder of the Brexit trade deal during a special meeting of Coreper, at the European Council building in Brussels. The European Union and the United Kingdom made public Saturday the vast agreement that is likely to govern future trade and cooperation between them from Jan. 1, setting the 27-nation bloc's relations with its former member country and neighbor on a new but far more distant footing. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP, File)

EU officials sign Brexit trade deal as UK lawmakers debate

By Jill Lawless and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019, a British flag waves atop of Houses of Parliament as an aircraft approaches the airport in London. After nearly five decades of economic and social integration, from the start of 2021 Britain will embark on a more-distant relationship with the European Union, and freedom of movement seems set to dramatically change for people wanting to cross the English Channel. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis, FILE)

EXPLAINER: Brexit ends Britons’ right to live and work in EU

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 file photo, an eerial view of Gibraltar rock seen from the neighbouring Spanish city of La Linea, during a general election in Gibraltar. (AP Photo/Javier Fergo, File)

Gibraltar’s border with Spain still in doubt after Brexit

By JOSEPH WILSON and BARRY HATTON - Associated Press

A colleague wears a Christmas hat as European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier, center, carries a binder of the Brexit trade deal during a special meeting of Coreper, at the European Council building in Brussels, Friday, Dec. 25, 2020. European Union ambassadors convened on Christmas Day to start an assessment of the massive free-trade deal the EU struck with Britain. After the deal was announced on Thursday, EU nations already showed support for the outcome and it was expected that they would unanimously back the agreement, a prerequisite for its legal approval. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP)

EU nations unanimously back post-Brexit trade deal with UK

By Jill Lawless and Raf Casert - Associated Press

Men wearing full protective suits against coronavirus, take a box containing COVID-19 vaccines, from military personnel at the National Center for Storage of the COVID-19 Vaccine, a military run facility, in Bucharest, Romania, Saturday, Dec. 26, 2020. Romanian authorities will start COVID-19 vaccinations on Dec. 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

‘Believe in science’: EU kicks off COVID-19 vaccine campaign

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

In this Friday, Dec. 25, 2020, file photo, a colleague wears a Christmas hat as European Union chief negotiator Michel Barnier, center, carries a binder of the Brexit trade deal during a special meeting of Coreper, at the European Council building in Brussels. The European Union and the United Kingdom made public Saturday the vast agreement that is likely to govern future trade and cooperation between them from Jan. 1, setting the 27-nation bloc's relations with its former member country and neighbor on a new but far more distant footing. (Olivier Hoslet, Pool via AP, File)

EU, UK unveil vast trade pact set to enter force on Jan 1

By LORNE COOK - Associated Press

A young child plays inside of a giant Christmas ornament outside EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2020. Talks continued Wednesday in the bid to put a trade deal between the European Union and the United Kingdom, before a Brexit transition period ends on New Year's Day, with the EU legislature insisting it will not have time to approve a deal. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

UK, EU on cusp of striking Brexit trade deal at last

By Raf Casert and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

Timeline of events in Britain’s exit from the European Union

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Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during a media briefing in Downing Street, London, Thursday, Dec. 24, 2020. Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year's chaos for cross-border commerce and bring a measure of certainty to businesses after years of Brexit turmoil. The breakthrough on Thursday came after months of tense and often testy negotiations that whittled differences down to three key issues: fair-competition rules, mechanisms for resolving future disputes and fishing rights. (Paul Grover/Pool Photo via AP)

Britain and European Union reach post-Brexit trade agreement

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE -In this Friday, Jan. 31, 2020 file photo, the Union flag is folded and removed after being lowered from outside of the European Parliament in Brussels. Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year chaos for cross-border traders and bring a measure of certainty for businesses after years of Brexit turmoil. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

What now for British economy with UK-EU trade deal reached?

By PAN PYLAS - Associated Press