Ireland in the starting blocks for Brexit drugs agency

Europe’s banking and medical oversight agencies are seen as the first tangible spoils that the remaining EU 27 countries will secure from Brexit.

The Irish Government has formally submitted its bid for both agencies in recent weeks. The chips are stacked against luring the European Banking Authority, or the EBA, with the heavy weights from Frankfurt and Paris, with long established credentials in the sector, the more likely choices.

The greater plum for Ireland and the one where it has the best credentials is the European Medicines Agency, the EMA, which employs 800 staff in London’s Canary Wharf, over