Meeting of the "Frugal Four", 20/02/20. Photo credit: European Union by Professor Iain BeggProfessorial Research Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science; Academic co-Director of the Dahrendorf Forum. 3rd March 2020 At a special meeting of the European Council on 20-21 February, EU leaders failed to reach an [...]
by Professor Iain BeggProfessorial Research Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science; Academic co-Director of the Dahrendorf Forum. 28th February 2020 This article was first posted on the LSE Brexit blog. The EU’s General Affairs Council has agreed on the negotiating mandate for the next phase of Brexit. [...]
Photo credit: European Union The smoke may be clearing from the opening salvoes in the Great Negotiation War and I happened to be in Brussels for a conference just after the `negotiations’ finished last week. My clear conclusion is that the UK is about to be sacrificed on the [...]
When Border Closures and Supranational Collaboration go hand in hand Unexpectedly, a virus, SARS 2 CoV-2, has become the most important political as well as human issue facing us at this time. Like any crisis of public safety, it presents the EU with an opportunity also: the opportunity to become [...]
2nd March 2020 Event by New Europeans, Sustensis and The Federal Trust https://vimeo.com/395932651 Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust https://vimeo.com/395935656 Tony Czarnecki, Sustensis and New Europeans https://vimeo.com/395941393 Miha Pogacnik, Ambassador of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia SPEAKERS European DemocracyBrendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust Citizens’ Assemblies and democratic reformsTony Czarnecki, New Europeans London [...]
by Peter CookBusiness and organisation consultant; Author of "Let's Talk about Brex..it"@AcademyofRock 28th February 2020 Brexit will unravel of its own contradictions. I believe this will be sooner rather than later. Brexit’s implosion will come from either what I call external socio-economic, political, environmental shocks or "internal combustion", due to [...]
“A week is a long time in politics” according to Harold Wilson, the first Labour Party prime minister to break 13 years of Conservative party rule. A year is an even longer time, and a very great deal can happen during that time, particularly to governments led by the Conservative [...]
by Brendan DonnellyDirector, The Federal Trust 14th February 2020 Michael Gove’s acknowledgement that trade between the UK and the EU after 1st January 2021 will be far from frictionless is a watershed in the Brexit process. The claim that Brexit would not significantly impinge upon British trade with the European [...]
The UK has the same rules as the EU at this instant – but EU rules are evolving continuously under the pressure of technological change. The main Directive about trading securities is about to be examined later this year – as part of the normal review cycle. The UK will [...]
by Dr Andrew BlickReader in Politics and Contemporary History at King’s College London; Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust 14th February 2020 Criticism of the European Union in United Kingdom (UK) political discourse has often focused upon the proposition that as a project it is federal in nature. For this [...]
