If you’re a photographer or filmmaker living in the U.K., traveling to work in Europe might be about to get a lot harder and significantly more expensive. If you live in London and suddenly land a job in Paris, taking a camera with you could soon cost you more than $400.
Among claims of fear-mongering of what Brexit might bring to the U.K. and Europe more broadly, it seems that even the British government’s own website is acknowledging that traveling with expensive electronic equipment might be a problem once Britain has withdrawn from Europe.
On this U.K. government webpage entitled “Take goods temporarily out of the UK,” it appears that traveling with “laptops, cameras, or sound equipment” might require an ATA Carnet in order to avoid paying duty when crossing borders. At present, acquiring one of these carnets to carry equipment from the U.K. to countries outside of the European Union costs £325.96 ($400).
As detailed by this page, “Touring Europe if there’s no Brexit deal,” published on October 2, 2019, there are major implications for photography units, film crews, and arts organizations if negotiations do not go well and Prime Minister Boris Johnson fulfills his promise to leave Europe at the end of this month, regardless of whether a deal is achieved.
As well as this major bureaucratic hurdle and significant costs, there will be other implications as a result of a no-deal Brexit, such as the validity of U.K. drivers licenses and Europe-wide health coverage currently enjoyed by all European residents.
The C.B.I., the Confederation of British Industry, has long warned of dramatic consequences, both of Brexit more broadly and more specifically of a no-deal Brexit. Earlier this year, Prime Minister Johnson was reported to have responded to these concerns by saying: “F*ck business.”
Will Brexit affect your ability to work in Europe? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
The article is an answer to the question 'Why are Remainers so convinced that staying in the European Union is what is best for the UK?'
It's a well put together, thoughtful treatise on the causes of brexit and the people behind it. I was also sceptical but it is absolutely worth reading.
I just hate all these new words that seem to have appeared out of this mess, Brexit, Leavers, Remainers, Remoaners etc etc... so as soon as an article uses any of them i just switch off.
I did however look through this and saw the following:
"So what about all those ludicrous laws imposed on the British by dastardly eurocrats?
They don’t exist. They were deliberately made up by British anti-EU journalists, like a certain Boris Johnson.
From 1989–1994, Johnson was a bored young journalist reporting from the European Commission in Brussels. He soon found that he could easily make front-page headlines by portraying the European Commission as a bunch of incompetent, jumped-up foreigners insulting the intelligence of British citizens with absurd rules, such as:
Brussels to introduce same-size “eurocoffins”
Brussels to establish a “banana police force” to regulate banana straightness
Brussels to ban Britain’s prawn cocktail crisps.
Almost single-handedly, Johnson had created the brand of fake news known as ‘Euromyth’. He also found that this Brussels-bashing boosted his career prospects, as a lot of old-fashioned Conservatives back home believed every daft word he wrote.
It did, of course, mean ditching any semblance of journalistic integrity, just deliberately lying and scaremongering on a daily basis — but he managed to do it spectacularly well, and still does."
this tells me its not that balanced and well thought out.
I hadn't realised he was the source of those bloody headlines. I get so frustrated with the British public thinking he could possibly be a good choice.
He is generally seen as a clown in the UK, which he is, but trying to pin all the above on him being a journalist and creating fake news because he was bored is pathetic.
But I don't want agencies to do it for me. I haven't had agencies for the past 30 or so years. It's adding red tape when before there was none. Those wanting Brexit told us that the benefits would be the removal of red tape. So which is it?
An incredible over-simplification of Brexit? Whinging? I wasn't in any way, shape or form attempting to set out the overall arguments for or against leaving the EU. I was merely mentioning a very small aspect of it that will not be in the best interest of those smaller companies who regularly travel to Europe with their equipment.
I'm more than happy to adapt and overcome when the long term benefits outweight the overall losses. In this case, they don't. Maybe for the bent banana brigade and prawn flavoured xenophobes, they do.
So why not petition to remove this tax code? I think this kind of "I am gonna tax you after you have already been taxed" is unjust.
In a lot of countries there is property tax, inheritance tax, etc. Quite a few taxes which fall into the "unjust" category.
How about cut them all? A lot of countries have it does not make it right. A lot of countries have FGM too.
troll is obvious, obvious is troll