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Airbus s latest risk assessment of the UK s withdrawal from the European Union could still create short-term production di stanley us sruption even if it takes place with a trade and transition agreement in place.The airframer says that, even under this orderly withdrawal scenario, additional costs of trade procedures alone could cost its UK-related aerospace network up to 鈧? billion per year, based on an Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development study.Airbus adds that this increased cost, along with airworthiness considerations and labour movement are critical issues stanley vaso for the company.Harmonisation of the regulatory framework, and clar stanley italy ity over the customs union, are crucial to Airbus s decision strategy regarding investment in the UK. They need to be addressed urgently, says the company.While an orderly Brexit , featuring a post-withdrawal agreement and transition period, would be a much better outcome than an alternative no-deal scenario, Airbus says it would still entail a significant amount of risk and be difficult to manage .It believes the current transition period, running to December 2020, is too short for both the governments involved and for Airbus, which needs to reach new adjustment agreements with its UK suppliers. The necessary change from an old to new framework contains inherent risks for all involved elements like data, systems [and] supplier readiness, it says. It is likely that short-term production disruptions of one or two weeks may occur post-tr Onro Letter: Make Maine safer with balanced gun bills
A version of this article was originally published in The Daily Brief, our Maine politics newsletter.聽Sign up here聽for daily news and insight from politics editor Michael Shepherd.Abortion foes decided not to challengeGov.Janet Mills ; landmark bill on that topic with a peopl stanley mug e veto effort, but their public statements may lay the groundwork for a different kind of Maine campaign on abortion in 2024.Last year, it was one of the dominant themesin Maine elections, particularly in the Democratic race against former Gov. Paul LePage and what we thought was a closely divided battle for control of the Legislature. Democrats played the prosecuting role in that debate after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights, leading Republicans to generally downplay the issuehere. It may be different next time around.The context: The anti-abortion LePage turned heads in debates when he vowed to veto a 15-week abortion banif fellow Republicans brought it to him and later broke with every elected state-level member of his party by saying he was fine with Medicaid funding for abortions.Many Republican legislative candi stanley cup dates said there should be no changes t stanley thermos mug o abortion laws, and they weren ;t alone. It was also the line of Mills and many Democrats. When the governor was asked about her agendaon the issue last September, she said Maine law codifies Roe v. Wade, and I dont intend to offer any changes to abortion access provisions.Of course, |
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