King Charles Begins a State Visit to Washington on Monday – A Test for US‑UK Ties at Their Lowest Since the 1956 Suez Crisis

Polls show British–American friendship slipping to its weakest level since the Suez debacle of 1956, and the monarch’s itinerary reads like a diplomatic triage checklist.

For anyone who follows the “special relationship”—whether you’re a history buff, a policy wonk, or just someone who likes a good political drama—this visit is a turning point. It’s not just about pomp and ceremony; it’s about whether the two allies can patch up a rift that threatens trade, security, and shared values on the world stage.

Britain Blames France For English Channel Congestion

Holidaymakers and truck drivers are waiting in lines that stretch for kilometers at the port of Dover, because of Brexit there will be more controls. But the foreign minister blames France.

A high volume of travel and the additional border controls required due to Brexit have led to traffic jams spanning several kilometers on the way across the English Channel to France. Unions, port authorities and French authorities agreed on Saturday that the main reason for this was Britain's exit from the EU. The ferry company P&O Ferries said that car and truck drivers sometimes had to calculate more than six hours for the way to the port and through the security checks.

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Fisheries Dispute With Great Britain: French Fishermen Block Ports

In the dispute over fishing licenses between France and Great Britain, French fishermen have blocked ports. With this they want to prevent exports to Great Britain.

French fishermen have temporarily blocked several ports and the access to the Channel Tunnel in Calais in the dispute with Great Britain over the issue of fishing licenses. The ferry traffic was interrupted for an hour at a time. 

The ports of Calais, Saint-Malo and Ouistreham were affected on Friday. When the access to the terminal for the railway channel tunnel was blocked in the afternoon, trucks jammed in the motorway lanes.

Brexit | France Doubts Britain's Credibility

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to suspend parts of the Brexit agreement again. France sees this as "not a good sign of Great Britain's credibility".

In the dispute over fishing rights, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized Great Britain. "If you spend years negotiating a contract and then a few months later doing the opposite of what was decided in the areas that are the least suitable for you, that is not a good sign of credibility," Macron told Financial Times.

A New Era For Britain Has Begun After Separation From The European Union

At 11pm local time, Britain stopped following EU rules and was replaced by new rules on travel, trade, immigration and security co-operation.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that with the completion of Bridget's long journey, Britain had

got its hands on freedom and had the ability to do things "differently and better"

French President Emmanuel McChrystal said Britain was still a "friend and ally".

British ministers have warned that there will be some difficulties in the coming days and weeks as new rules come into force and British companies trading with other European countries will have to adapt to the changes.

People are worried that they may face difficulties at the border, but officials say the new border system is "ready for implementation."

Theresa May, the 'cast' iron lady

The topic of the new Iron Lady suited us well as a business card

The vitola of the 'daughter of the vicar' served to compare her prematurely with Angela Merkel. Then came the sambenito of "terribly difficult woman" (courtesy of his fellow Kenneth Clarke), used by herself to strut around Brussels, while in London reiterated that of Brexit to scratch the hyenas of the hard wing of her party.

The decline of Theresa May really began with that "Strong and Stable" that served as the worst slogan for her campaign in the early elections of 2017, her first major miscalculation. Instead of consolidating her mandate as David Cameron's successor, the conservative leader proved to be a much more "weak and unstable" leader than could be deduced after her forging as secretary of the Interior, totally lost in the swell of the campaign, unable to connect with the voters.

Even so, most Britons continued to respect her for months, believing that the Brexit would occur at 11 pm in London (midnight in Brussels) on March 29, 2019.

The date written in stone was crumbled in clay. His iron mood ended up melting into the open fire of his own party. The hard 'brexiteros' shot to kill and the conservative media (with the Daily Telegraph and the Sun at the head) were shooting her with her headlines and her cartoons, until turning her into a caricature of herself.

"Could perhaps exists in additional congregation," said the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, precisely when the 'premier' still had a minimum of credibility in his land. Then came the cure of reality, and the splinter of the "safeguard" Irish, which was the chinita in his leopard imitation shoes.

Juncker now declares his last admiration for May and her condition of "hard and resilient woman", against the crowd of successors and successors who have been sharpening their knives since the disaster of those early elections that served to complicate everything. The 'Tories' lost their parliamentary majority and the 'premier' was suddenly seen between the sword of the hard wing of his party and the wall of the Northern Irish Unionists.

The conspiracies against May date back to September 2017, when the Brexit began to 'soften' in his speech in Florence. Then came the nightmare of the Conference of the Conservative Party in Manchester, when he lost his voice while the poster behind him was losing the lyrics, after a spontaneous interrupted his speech. Many saw everything as a foretaste of his fall. But he still had rope.

Persistent to nausea, the 'premier' gave the impression of straightening the ship when it was a year before the chimes. That other speech, at the Mansion House, however, marked a new turning point. Then came the 'encerrona' of Checkers, which led to the resignation of his Brexit minister David Davis and the much-announced escape of Boris Johnson, finally free, leaving a trail of loud gaffes as head of the Foreign Office.

Thus began the unceasing tide of government crisis and the succession of headlines predicting the last afternoons with Theresa. But the greatest battle was still lurking in Westminster, after that race against time to close the Brexit agreement with Brussels in the throes of 2018. The House of Commons punished May with the biggest parliamentary defeat of a Government in the history of the Kingdom. United: 432 against 202 votes. Oblivious to the setback, the "premier" tried again twice, and reduced the difference to 58 votes at the end, including the 34 'ultrabreweries' of his own party who finally dug their pit.

Since then, May has lived on loan, even though on Tuesday she was unmarked with another of her unfortunate speeches at the PricewaterhouseCoopers headquarters, opening the door to a second referendum and proclaiming to her dispassionate style: "This is a great time to be live".

At 62 years old, dark circles and necklaces weigh him like chains, although he persists in disguising it. Resilience has a limit, even though his personal battle against type 1 diabetes (which forces him to inject insulin several times a day) has prepared him against his closest enemies. Her husband Philip, who always fled comparisons with Denise Thatcher, will have to say something similar after 28 years: "You've done enough, my dear, you've put everything on your side, for the love of God, and you stay longer.”

Chaos is never ending | Brexit shift until June 30

Theresa May has requested a further postponement of the Brexit appointment on Friday until June 30. However, if an agreement is ratified earlier, the deadline should end sooner, May wrote in a letter to EU Council President Donald Tusk.

"The government wants to agree on a roadmap for ratification, which will allow the UK to leave the European Union before 23 May 2019, thereby annulling the European elections (for Britain, note)," May said but "making responsible preparations" for holding the EU election, should this not be possible. "It's frustrating that we have not completed this process successfully and orderly," May wrote.

Meanwhile, Tusk pleads for a shift of Brexit by twelve months. He wanted to propose that to the 27 remaining EU countries, confirmed EU officials in Brussels. A Brexit special summit is planned for next Wednesday in Brussels, during which the other EU member states would have to unanimously agree to an extension. If there is no solution by then, Britain will leave the EU unregulated on 12 April with far-reaching negative consequences.

Already Friday morning, the BBC and other media had reported with reference to EU sources that Tusk wants to propose a flexible extension of the Brexit period to twelve months.

May says after a cabinet meeting, talks with the opposition Labor Party are needed to find a solution. The Tory boss summoned the opposition to an agreement. Now it's about working out a compromise. The joint plan should then be presented to the other EU states next week. However, he must move within the framework of the previous exit agreement with the EU. The extension should be "as short as possible".

A reaction of the opposition Labor Party was initially not available. The EU would have to agree to an extension, which could then run until 22 May. Without such an agreement, Britain will leave the international community on 12 April. For April 10, an EU summit is scheduled.