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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The toxicity of the British government’s ongoing Brexit (re)negotiations has surfaced again with the creaking mess that is the Northern Ireland Protocol. Lord Frost’s latest speech, ‘Observations on the Present State of the Nation’, once again recalls whimsically the ghost of Edmund Burke, the godfather of conservatism. But substantially it attempts to [...]
The announcement of the new AUKUS security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States last month caused outrage in France and in the rest of the European Union. Not only did it imply a loss of the existing contract between Paris and Canberra for twelve conventional submarines [...]
The City is home to a multitude of businesses that support the financial markets. However, banking has always been at the City’s heart and, in recent decades, the clearing of derivatives has become central to both banking and securities markets. Pre-Brexit, these markets were also central to the European Union [...]
On 13th October, the Times columnist David Aaronovitch published an article entitled “Whisper it, but a pro-EU lobby is stirring.” Its tone is admittedly hesitant and conditional, with the title of the piece suggesting diffidence in putting forward a thesis unattractive to many readers. But it is difficult to believe [...]
