A Defence and Security Strategy for Europe 8th December 2016 A joint panel discussion by the Federal Trust, Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Global Policy Institute In the light of renewed discussion within the European Union about the feasibility and perhaps necessity of greater European defence cooperation this joint conference with [...]
By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust When challenged about its claimed right to initiate the process of taking the United Kingdom out of the European Union without Parliamentary consent, Mrs. May’s government has relied on two arguments, one legal and one political. The first is that the [...]
by Dr Andrew Blick, Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust Download this report in pdf format. Read the PRESS RELEASE. Introduction On 2 October 2016 Theresa May addressed her first Conservative Party Conference as Leader and Prime Minister. [...]
By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust It should have surprised nobody that it took a bare three months for Theresa May to metamorphose from tepid advocate of continuing British membership of the European Union into an enthusiastic proselytiser at the Conservative Party conference for the benefits of [...]
This is a joint project between the Federal Trust, Global Policy Institute and Industry Forum The Federal Trust received at the end of 2015 a grant from the European Commission Representation in the UK to undertake a project exploring the difficult questions in the United Kingdom's relationship with the [...]
27th October 2016 Joint conference between Federal Trust, Global Policy Institute and Industry Forum Please click below for the Conference Report of this event: Conference Report (online) Conference Report (pdf file) Video interviews with the speakers (click here) Programme Session 1: Where does the Referendum leave us? Jackie [...]
29th September 2016 Joint event with: Speakers: Sebastian Borger London Correspondent for Berliner Zeitung, Der Standard and other German-speaking news publications Video Interview (Apologies for the inferior sound quality): Dr Nicolai von Ondarza Deputy Head of EU/Europe Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust It used to be claimed during the Cold War that in the countries of the Soviet bloc elections could not take place until the government had decided what their result should be. Here, we order these matters differently. We had a [...]
20th July 2016 Joint event with Global Policy Institute A panel discussion with speakers and commentators from the Federal Trust and Global Policy Institute: Brendan Donnelly, Directorm, The Federal Trust Nicolas Maclean, Council Member, The Federal Trust Viara Bojkova, Head of Geo-Economics Programme and Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust Recently installed as she is at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May has probably not yet given much thought to her resignation honours list when she ceases to be Prime Minister. If she does, an obvious candidate for preferment should be the [...]
