faroe islands: The British government awarded a contract to ship in emergency supplies to a company with no ships, according to The Japan Times. It pledged to replace citizens' burgundy European passports with proudly British blue ones and gave the contract to a Franco-Dutch company. Many Britons feel they are living through both at the same time as their country navigates its way out of the European Union. It promised to forge trade deals with 73 countries by the end of March, but two years later has only a handful in place including one with the Faroe Islands . ; Pretty much everyone in the U.K. agrees that the Conservative government's handling of Brexit has been disastrous. With the U.K. due to leave the EU in six weeks and still no deal in sight on the terms of its departure, both supporters and opponents of Brexit are in a state of high anxiety. Unfortunately, that's about the only thing this divided nation can agree on.
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