The United Kingdom left the European single market on Thursday at 11 p.m. local time and GMT, thus completing its historic break with the European Union after 47 years of an eventful union.
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From January 1, the country ceases to apply EU rules, from which it officially emerged on January 31, after concluding on Christmas Eve a vast agreement providing for free trade with the 27.