By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 1st November 2017 In his recent testimony to the House of Lords, Sir Ivan Rogers, former British Permanent Representative to the European Union, criticized as premature and ill-prepared the Prime Minister’s triggering last March of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. [...]
By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 25th September 2017 The limited concessions outlined in Theresa May’s Florence speech will probably have been enough to prevent the immediate breakdown of the Brexit talks, a breakdown which seemed at the beginning of the month a real possibility. They are, however, [...]
BREXIT: Labour makes a move but is it in the right direction? By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 1st September 2017 The recent article by Keir Starmer, Labour spokesman on Brexit, setting out the Party’s commitment to continued British membership of the EU single market and [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 15th August 2017 On almost every day since Theresa May went on holiday in late July, the British public has been treated to the contradictory and often self-contradictory thoughts of various ministers about the desirability, inevitability or unacceptability of a “transition” [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 20th July 2017 David Davis has been criticized in some quarters for spending only two hours in Brussels this week negotiating with Michel Barnier before returning hurriedly to London. This criticism is misplaced. As Secretary of State for Exiting the European [...]
A chaotic Brexit is still a possibility by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 28th June 2017 The terms of the political debate about Brexit in the aftermath of the General Election are gradually becoming clearer. Since the project of Brexit is an essentially irrational one, [...]
The dilemmas of Brexit have not been changed by the election by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 13th June 2017 The parallels between the European referendum of 2016 and the General Election of 2017 are striking. Both were risky and avoidable events, called into being exclusively [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
