Weimar Germany and Brexit Britain Joint event with Global Policy Institute 31st May 2017 Professor Austin Harrington is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. He has recently published a book entitled “German Cosmopolitan Social Thought and the Idea of the West: Voices from Weimar” Professor [...]
Testimony by John Bruton, at the Seanad Special Select Committee on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union 27 April 2017 I welcome the opportunity to speak here today and commend the committee on its work. If I may, I would also like to commend the government on the way [...]
Devolution in England: International Perspectives, Politics and Policy Ideas 19-21 June 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK The Centre for Federal Studies at the University of Kent convened this conference on ‘Devolution in England: international perspectives, politics and policy ideas after Brexit’ on 20-21 June 2017 in Canterbury, [...]
The Brexit election will not make Brexit easier for Mrs. May by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust Announcing her decision to call for a general election in June, the Prime Minister claimed that “every vote for the Conservatives will make me stronger when I negotiate for Britain [...]
BREXIT: APRÈS MAY, LE DÉLUGE by Andrew Duff 12th April 2017 This article was first published by European Policy Centre (pdf file). After the kerfuffle in the courts over who should have the final say on invoking Article 50, the British parliament has done its stuff. Having [...]
Pointless soft Brexit, suicidal hard Brexit By Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust In a controversial article last week the associate editor of the Financial Times Wolfgang Muenchau asserted that after the triggering of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty it was now inevitable that the United [...]
The City and Brexit - British and German perspectives 16th May 2017 Panellists: Nicky Edwards Independent financial services consultant on Brexit; Associate of Brexit Exchange Nicolas Maclean Commentator on financial services issues member of our Council Gergely Polner Head of Europe Public Affairs, Standard Chartered Bank CONFERENCE REPORT: [...]
Resolution Capital: A Doomsday Machine for Europe’s Banks? By Graham Bishop 20 March 2017 This article was first published in Financial World – The magazine of The London Institute of Banking and Finance The post-Crash re-ordering of Europe’s financial system is coming to an awkward phase – [...]
Euro “clearing”: Liability and Location by Graham Bishop 16th January 2017 This issue of `clearing’ is likely to come to a head quickly once Article 50 Notice of `intention to leave’ is served by the UK - as a direct consequence of the G20 commitment to ensure there [...]
The Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe – a case of what might have been… 8th March 2017 By Iain Begg This arcticle was previously published on the LSE EUROPP Blog. The European Commission has published a ‘White Paper on the Future of Europe’ ahead of [...]
