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16 12, 2016

May’s Rocky Road Ahead: Why Brexit May Not Happen

By |2016-12-16T13:43:37+00:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Blog, Europe|Tags: , , , , , |

In this article our director Brendan Donnelly argues that the triggering of Article 50 will not be the end of the Brexit story. Mrs May is likely to face over the next two years growing obstacles in her path of extricating the UK from the European Union. There is a [...]

16 12, 2016

On a road to nowhere? Brexit and the future for the UK’s diplomacy

By |2020-05-04T09:53:32+00:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Brexit|Tags: , |

by Professor Richard Whitman October 2016  This article was first published in "International Affairs". Since the referendum vote in June the majority of attention has focused on what might be the future economic relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU) and the prospects for the UK’s trade relationships [...]

16 12, 2016

There is a gaping hole where Britain’s foreign policy should be

By |2020-05-04T12:16:51+00:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Uncategorized|Tags: |

by Professor Richard Whitman November 2016 This article was first published by the ESRC's programme "The UK in a Changing Europe".   Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech at the Mansion House on Monday demonstrated that her government has a gaping hole where it should have a foreign policy. The Lord [...]

16 12, 2016

Building the Brexit machine: will the hardware match the software?

By |2020-05-04T09:53:37+00:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Brexit|Tags: , |

by Professor Richard Whitmam 17 November 2016 This article was first published on the LSE EUROPP blog.   The British government’s preparations for invoking Article 50, triggering the start of the formal Brexit negotiation process, have been split between writing the Brexit software and building the hardware. The Brexit hardware [...]

16 12, 2016

Global Britain means Global Britain

By |2020-05-05T08:20:36+00:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , |

by Professor Richard Whitman 7 December 2016 This article was first published by the ESRC programme "The UK in a Changing Europe". Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson delivered his first major speech on the vision for the UK’s future foreign policy on Friday at Chatham House.[i] The speech was well-delivered, peppered [...]

16 12, 2016

Some faint light on some dark places – The challenges in finalising UK Brexit strategy

By |2020-05-04T09:53:40+00:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Brexit|Tags: , |

by John Palmer December 2016 Article first published by Itish Institute for European Affairs (IIEA), Dublin Given the momentous significance of the British decision to exit the European Union, it is striking how little firm information about what it might mean is, as yet, in the public domain. We know [...]

16 12, 2016

Does Brexit mean Brexit?

By |2020-05-04T09:53:40+00:00December 16th, 2016|Categories: Brexit|Tags: , |

Basis for a Speech of Sir Brian Unwin to the Anglo-Netherlands Society, 18 November, 2016   I have chosen as the title of my talk “Does Brexit mean Brexit?”. I wish to explore further the Prime Minister’s  repeated but uninformative tautology of “Brexit means Brexit”. Was the 23 June referendum  [...]

13 12, 2016

An insider’s history of how Eramus developed

By |2020-05-05T08:20:36+00:00December 13th, 2016|Categories: Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: |

Presentation by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones to the European Conference on Higher Education and European Integration held at the European University Institute in Florence on 29th  October 2016 on the occasion of the Institute's 40th anniversary   by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones, Council member, The Federal Trust Firenze, October 2016 [...]

28 11, 2016

John Pinder Lecture 2016

By |2020-05-05T09:00:51+00:00November 28th, 2016|Categories: 2016, Council|Tags: , |

John Pinder: An Intellectual Leader in Politics Download the pdf-file here. John Pinder Lecture, held on 10th November 2016, by Professor Roderick Pace TEPSA Pre-Presidency Conference “Restoring Faith in the EU” in Malta John Pinder brought much wisdom to the European integration project and when he passed away last year [...]

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