“New Fault lines in Europe.....the political consequences of Brexit” by John Bruton, former Taoiseach Grattan lecture held at the Irish Embassy in London on 12 June 2017 THE HISTORIC CONTEXT OF BREXIT If one reviews European history over the period since the Reformation five hundred years ago, the [...]
Consequences of a hard Brexit Joint event with Industry Forum Monday, 5th June 2017 LAUNCH OF A NEW STUDY: "Hard Brexit", International Trade and the WTO Scenario by Dr Andrew Black Speakers: Dr Andrew Black, Digit Ltd, Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute; Visiting Senior Research Fellow at [...]
“Hard Brexit”, International Trade and the WTO Scenario May 2017 With the assistance of Etienne Piciocchi and Michael Spracklin Click here to download the paper in pdf format. Executive Summary This report looks at the possible consequences of a hard Brexit, following an unsuccessful conclusion of Article [...]
Resolution Capital: A Doomsday Machine for Europe’s Banks? By Graham Bishop 20 March 2017 This article was first published in Financial World – The magazine of The London Institute of Banking and Finance The post-Crash re-ordering of Europe’s financial system is coming to an awkward phase – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
About European Essays The Federal Trust produces a series of bi-monthly European Essays (ISSN 1468-9049) with the aim of enlightening the debate on good governance. Since 1999, this thought-provoking series has included a wide spectrum of contributors, among them: Iain Begg, John Bruton, Andrew Duff, Valéry Giscard D'Estaing, Joschka Fischer, [...]
The Federal Trust regularly publishes short Briefing Papers, which often focus on current political and constitutional developments in the European Union. In particular, those papers published as part of the European Policy Briefs series assess and analyse major controversies in the British debate about Europe. You will find our latest [...]
