Dana's Blog

While Britain was NOT prepared for BREXIT, it seems that Europe was How it was possible for "leavers", both voters and leaders, to be so blind and unable to anticipate this, remain a mystery to be clarified in time, hopefully our life-time.   It started, literally, within hours of Britain's vote to leave. While Brits were still trying to understand what  "leave" means and whether the result is for real,  cities and companies across Europe leapt into action, all of them hoping to lure businesses, entrepreneurs and investment from  Great Britain. Britain hasn’t even officially filed for divorce and was still trying to make sense of what the next step will be when the rest of EU started to cast attractive offers to all business areas.  Despite the high levels of uncertainty, others in Europe are already looking to gain from Britain’s pain. Nothing personal guys, is just business.  Virtually all major cities in Europe race now to be "the ne...

And.. this is how it begins... If you wander if the outcome of the BREXIT Referendum will have an immediate impact on EU nationals living and working in United Kingdom, the answer is YES!!! Employers are already asking  EU-nationals to leave their jobs unless they can prove they can remain in UK on different grounds than EU-citizenship.  True facts: Within hours after the results of IN/OUT Referendum, two employees of one of a branded hotels in London - EU nationals -   were asked by the management to leave their jobs on the grounds that the company cannot afford to keep employees with "uncertain" working rights.  They were told to  to provide evidence of theirs working and living rights in Britain other than the rights as EU citizens or they must go.  One of them can start the application for residence in UK while he is there for more than 10 years, but the other one cannot do the same because he is in the country, for only 2...