by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 24th January 2018 In recent weeks, there has been widespread discussion of the possibility of a new referendum later in the year to endorse or reject the terms negotiated by Mrs May and her government for British withdrawal from the European Union. [...]
NHS Scotland should look to EU for funding models by David Gow January 12, 2018 This article first appeared on Sceptical.scot It is time to seriously rethink how the NHS, 70 this year, is funded. The latest news that the service in England hit an all-time low [...]
Corbyn Should Stop The UK’s Drift Out Of The EU by John Palmer 10th January 2018 This article first appeared on Social Europe. My friend John Weeks’ argument in Social Europe that Theresa May’s conclusion of a ‘First Stage’ Brexit agreement signals that the UK is now irreversibly on [...]
Tribute to Peter Sutherland President of the Federal Trust (2004 - 2017) There was great sadness in the Federal Trust when we learned at the weekend of the death of our former President, Peter Sutherland. During the years of his Presidency he was an enthusiastic supporter of the Trust, both [...]
Brexit: The second phase 22nd January 2018 Speakers: Mary Honeyball, Labour MEP for London Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust; former Conservative MEP (1994 - 1999) Lord Dykes, former MP for Harrow East (1970 - 1997) Chaired by Nicolas Maclean, Member of the Federal Trust's Advisory Council Video [...]
“How will the EU look in twenty years time?” London, 14th December 2017 Joint event with Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Global Policy Institute CONFERENCE REPORT Introduction In this last of the current series of discussions on the post-Brexit landscape, the speakers addressed the challenging and very wide-ranging issue of how the [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 19th December 2017 The frenzied negotiations to conclude the first phase of Brexit negotiations have usefully clarified the real choices faced by the British government in the second phase. The ambiguous and variously defined terms “soft” and “hard” Brexit have outlived their usefulness. [...]
By Dr Andrew Blick, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust 19th December 2017 The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis, has described his plans for a future trading arrangement with the EU as ‘Canada [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 5th December 2017 Even during the European referendum last year it was clear that those who wished the UK to leave the European Union fell into two quite different camps, those who wanted Brexit to mark a decisive break in the economic and [...]
PRESS RELEASE 1st December 2017 Brexit to hit its supporters hardest; and UK needs to forget hostility to the European Court of Justice The Federal Trust is today publishing two new studies by its Senior Fellows Dr Andrew Black and Dr Andrew Blick (sic). Dr Black uses input/output analysis [...]
