Citizenship under attack - Some parallels between Weimar Germany and Brexit Britain by Professor Sam Whimster ‘If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what the very word “citizenship” means.” (Mrs May, Conservative Party Conference, Birmingham. October 2016.) [...]
Brexit and the future of global trade Joint event with Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Global Policy Institute 3rd July 2017 At this seminar our expert panellists discussed the implications for global trade over the next two years of the Brexit negotiations and a possible Brexit at the end of [...]
“New Fault lines in Europe.....the political consequences of Brexit” by John Bruton, former Taoiseach Grattan lecture held at the Irish Embassy in London on 12 June 2017 THE HISTORIC CONTEXT OF BREXIT If one reviews European history over the period since the Reformation five hundred years ago, the [...]
The quintessentially democratic act? Democracy, political community and citizenship in and after the UK’s EU referendum of June 2016 by Professor Jo Shaw Journal of European Integration, Forthcoming; Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 12/2017. 19th May 2017 Abstract On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to [...]
PRESS RELEASE 5/6/2017 HARD BREXIT: A NEW ECONOMIC ANALYSIS The Federal Trust will be launching today, 5th June 2017, a new report by Dr. Andrew Black of the Global Policy Institute, which looks at the possible consequences of the hard Brexit which would follow the unsuccessful conclusion of Article 50 [...]
Branxiety – the new affliction on the Brexit block by Catherine Stewart, Partner, Jericho Chambers; Senior Adviser, Interel 21 May 2017 This article first appeared on the Jericho Chambers website. Brexiteer, ReMainer, ReMoaner, now ReLeaver….the lexicon of Brexit grows as its implications sink in. But facing the realities of what is [...]
The 2017 General Election: a mandate for Brexit? 30th May 2017 By Dr Andrew Blick, Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust Click here to download the paper in pdf format. On 19 April, the Prime Minister, Theresa [...]
After the election comes the painful Brexit reality by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust It should have come as little surprise that the election called by Mrs. May, supposedly to set the tone for the forthcoming Brexit negotiations, should have contained so little serious discussion [...]
Consequences of a hard Brexit Joint event with Industry Forum Monday, 5th June 2017 LAUNCH OF A NEW STUDY: "Hard Brexit", International Trade and the WTO Scenario by Dr Andrew Black Speakers: Dr Andrew Black, Digit Ltd, Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute; Visiting Senior Research Fellow at [...]
Joint event by the Federal Trust, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Global Policy Institute The City and Brexit - British and German perspectives 16th May 2017 Conference Report CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE CONFERENCE REPORT IN PDF FORMAT Introduction In the second of its series of post-Brexit referendum discussions, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, [...]
