6 02, 2024

VIDEO: Northern Ireland Can Now Face The Future

By |2024-02-06T15:53:54+00:00February 6th, 2024|Categories: Brexit, Devolution, Europe, UK Constitution, Video|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

In the new Federal Trust video, Geoff Martin welcomes the restoration of normal political life in Northern Ireland after years of deadlock. The appointment of two women from opposing political traditions as First and Deputy First Minister undoubtedly marks a turning-point in the Province’s history. But Geoff cautions that rifts [...]

6 02, 2024

Podcast: Northern Ireland can now face the future

By |2024-02-06T15:53:23+00:00February 6th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Brexit, Devolution, Europe|Tags: , , , , , |

In this new episode of the Federal Trust podcast, Geoff Martin welcomes the restoration of normal political life in Northern Ireland after years of deadlock. The appointment of two women from opposing political traditions as First and Deputy First Minister undoubtedly marks a turning-point in the Province’s history. But Geoff [...]

18 01, 2024

Podcast: Labour Divided on Brexit?

By |2024-01-18T11:00:07+00:00January 18th, 2024|Categories: Audio, Brexit, Europe|Tags: , , , |

In this new podcast, our Director Brendan Donnelly and Chairman John Stevens discuss the likely course of the British debate on Brexit in 2024. They suggest that the Mayor of London’s new intervention in this debate is both part of his election strategy for the Mayoral elections and a foretaste [...]

16 01, 2024

VIDEO: Labour Divided on Brexit?

By |2024-01-16T15:42:12+00:00January 16th, 2024|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Global, Video|Tags: , , , , , , |

In this new Federal Trust video, Brendan Donnelly and John Stevens discuss the likely course of the British debate on Brexit in 2024. They suggest that the Mayor of London’s new intervention in this debate is both part of his election strategy for the Mayoral elections and a foretaste of [...]

12 01, 2024

The EU’s new tool to combat economic threats by non-EU states

By |2024-01-12T17:34:27+00:00January 12th, 2024|Categories: Europe, Global, Trade, Trade & Financial services, UK, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , , |

The European Union’s Anti-Coercion Instrument (ACI) regulation is a novel and significant development in international trade law which came into force on 27th December 2023. The new trade instrument will enable the European Union (EU) to deal with foreign countries’ efforts to influence or coerce the EU or a particular [...]

4 01, 2024

‘What I want is a federalising Europe’: remembering Jacques Delors, a true EU champion

By |2024-01-04T18:02:30+00:00January 4th, 2024|Categories: EU Policies & Institutions, Europe, Federalism, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , |

by John Palmer Former European editor, The Guardian, and former Political Director of the European Policy Centre; Our Council member John Palmer looks back on the achievements of former President of the European Commission Jacques Delors, who has died aged 98. Read the article on the Observer website here   [...]

4 01, 2024

Can a new statecraft save the UK’s dysfunctional Union?

By |2024-01-04T17:31:58+00:00January 4th, 2024|Categories: Devolution, Federalism, UK, UK Constitution, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , , , |

by Paul Gillespie Director of the ‘Constitutional Futures after Brexit project’ in the School of Politics and International Relations at UCD; columnist with The Irish Times and member of the IIEA’s UK Expert Group This paper aims to examine the state of the UK government in 2023, how it has progressed to [...]

8 12, 2023

Podcast: Immigration after Brexit – the Conservative Party implodes

By |2024-01-18T12:42:59+00:00December 8th, 2023|Categories: Audio, Brexit, Europe|Tags: , , , , |

Brendan Donnelly and John Stevens discuss the latest proposals of the British government to reduce net migration into the UK. They conclude that these proposals simply represent the latest instalment in the Conservative Party’s continuing internal divisions over Brexit’s consequences. They will be economically damaging and are unlikely to help [...]

8 12, 2023

VIDEO: Immigration after Brexit: the Conservative Party implodes

By |2023-12-08T16:37:55+00:00December 8th, 2023|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Migration & Identity, Video|Tags: , , , , |

Brendan Donnelly and John Stevens discuss the latest proposals of the British government to reduce net migration into the UK. They conclude that these proposals simply represent the latest instalment in the Conservative Party’s continuing internal divisions over Brexit’s consequences. They will be economically damaging and are unlikely to help [...]

21 11, 2023

VIDEO: The UK as seen from Wales

By |2023-11-21T16:13:39+00:00November 21st, 2023|Categories: Devolution, Federalism, Scotland, UK Constitution, Video|Tags: , , , , |

In this video the former First Minister of Wales, Carwyn Jones, discusses with Brendan Donnelly and Glyndwr Cennydd Jones current thinking in Wales on the UK’s constitutional future. All three participants drew attention to the apparent contradiction between claims of Welsh and Scottish sovereignty on the one hand and the [...]

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