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A Welcome Note from the Director

In this month’s edition of our Brexit Newsletter ‘Europe and the UK after Brexit’ we consider the Northern Ireland Protocol, the AUKUS agreement, the prospects for the City of London, the silence of the lambs on Brexit and the contrast between the EU and British approaches to trade deals. We also have a selection of articles from the continental press. We hope our material on the unfolding consequences of Brexit will be of interest to you.

Press Review: This Month in Europe (December 2021)

By Federal Trust|2021-12-17T14:04:34+00:00December 17th, 2021|

In its monthly press review, the Federal Trust highlights some of the main events and developments of the preceding month across the European Union in the areas of ‘Monetary and Fiscal Policy’, ‘The Economy’, ‘Security and Defence’, ‘Technology and the Green New Deal’, ‘Politics’, ‘EU-UK Relations’ and ‘The EU Regulatory Agenda’. Monetary and Fiscal Policy EU borrowing—time to think of the generation after next https://socialeurope.eu/eu-borrowing-time-to-think-of-the-generation-after-next [...]

Barnier’s Secret Brexit Diary – A British perspective

By Denis MacShane|2021-12-17T16:34:34+00:00December 17th, 2021|

This book is one of the most important ever written on Britain’s tortuous relationship with Europe in the last 50 years. It has been dismissed as a book written by a haut fonctionnaire, what in English would be called a Whitehall Mandarin. Nothing could be further from the truth. The reason Barnier comprehensively out-negotiated his opposite numbers and left the EU far stronger in terms [...]

The Trade and Cooperation Agreement: achieving ‘even more business with our European friends’?

By Prof Andrew Blick|2021-12-17T16:34:02+00:00December 17th, 2021|

On 24 December 2020, Boris Johnson, announced the European Union (EU) – United Kingdom (UK) Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA). He described it as ‘a deal which will, if anything, allow our companies and our exporters to do even more business with our European friends’. Whatever view one takes of the impact that Johnson, through the manner of his public interventions, has upon the quality [...]

“Global Britain” is fading under strained international supply chains and Brexit woes

By Bob Savic|2021-12-17T16:33:47+00:00December 17th, 2021|

In response to the decline in Britain’s international trade, during the pandemic and since the end of the EU transition period, the government has launched a new trade strategy to boost exports up to £1 trillion a year by the end of the decade. The new scheme is likely to prove elusive as the worsening deterioration in worldwide cross-border supply chains may instead be the [...]

Europe-India: new strategic challenges

By Karine de Vergeron|2021-12-17T16:34:18+00:00December 17th, 2021|

This article was first published by the Robert Schuman Foundation The most recent India-EU summits, held on 15 July 2020 and 8 May 2021, significantly enhanced the strategic dimension of the bilateral relationship. India was one of the first countries to establish diplomatic relations with the European Union when representatives of the then EEC met with several Indian diplomats based in Europe in 1961. But it was not [...]