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The Federal Trust is a research institute studying the interactions between regional, national, European and global levels of government. Founded in 1945 on the initiative of Sir William Beveridge, it has long made a powerful contribution to the study of federalism and federal systems. It has always had a particular interest in the European Union and Britain’s place in it.
The Federal Trust has no allegiance to any political party. It is registered as a charity for the purposes of education and research.
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Video: Brexit – The Northern Ireland Protocol and a Sick Government
In this video, Professor Richard Rose of the University of Strathclyde argues that the British government's attitude towards the Northern Ireland Protocol is a profoundly unhealthy one. It stems from the misplaced beliefs that the UK can dictate the terms of its external relations, that the UK's partners have no [...]
RECENTLY PUBLISHED
Levelling Up … Public Spending?
by Prof. Colin Talbot, Emeritus Professor of Government at the University of Manchester, and Dr. Carole Talbot, Research Associate, University of Cambridge ‘Levelling Up’ is back in the headlines with the move of Michael [...]
Is citizen-led democracy here to stay?
This article was first published by The Brussels Times. Tourists are flying into space and life on Mars seems a less distant possibility. Meanwhile Europeans are busy trying to create a buzz about our future [...]
Haste Ye Back
This article was first published by the European Movement Scotland I had a dream of Europe. Brexit wrecked it. Boris Johnson and his ultra-nationalist cabal of English exceptionalists stole my dream and snuffed it out. [...]
WEBINAR: “Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi: A forgotten Father of Europe?”
Thursday, 7th October 2021 17.00 - 18.30 (BST) Webinar on Zoom: REGISTER HERE The former Director of the Federal Trust, Dr Martyn Bond, will be discussing his most recent book “Hitler’s Cosmopolitan Bastard”, a biography [...]
EVENT: Climate Change: European responses to a global challenge
Joint event by the Federal Trust with Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and Global Policy Institute Tuesday, 12th October 2021 17.00 – 19.00 (BST) Webinar on Zoom REGISTER HERE The COP26 meeting, hosted by the UK in November, [...]
Democratic Citizenship Education in the Light of the Lisbon Treaty
The Treaty of Lisbon sheds fresh light on the purposes of EU citizenship education. The hallmark of the 2007 Lisbon Treaty is that it construes the EU as a dual democracy. The EU is not [...]
Democratic federalism: are we there yet?
This article was first published by The UK in a Changing Europe. If there is one plus to the Covid-19 pandemic it is that many more people in the UK are aware we no [...]
Angela Merkel, Britain and Europe: a view from offshore
This essay was commissioned by Léo Keller on behalf of the Blogazoi blog, as part of a collection to be published following the German election. It is over 21 years since Angela Merkel took over from [...]
Music, Musicians and Brexit
Nine months into Brexit and it is already apparent that musicians are one of the main sectors whose lives and livelihoods are being radically disrupted by Brexit, to the point that it is causing 21% [...]
A Great Reset in Afghanistan?
In this new video, two geopolitical experts - Anatol Lieven and Raffaello Pantucci - discuss the real consequences of current events in Afghanistan. They conclude that some of the feared consequences may be exaggerated, while [...]