The Brexit negotiations: Looking forward and back 19th March 2018 On the day when the British and EU negotiators agreed on a Brexit transition deal our expert panel reviewed and assessed its importance and possible implications for Britain's departure from the EU. On this last occasion before his move to [...]
by Bob Savic, Senior Research Fellow at the Global Policy Institute and an advisory partner with Petersburg Capital LLP in London. 6th March 2018 For about two years (i.e. from December 2015 to date) corporate investment in the UK economy has been growing at or around 0%. This is [...]
Mrs May’s Mansion House Speech – The Irish Dimension By John Bruton, former Irish Taoiseach 4th March 2018 This article was first published in the Meath Chronicle. My first reaction, watching Theresa May’s speech, was that The UK is going to put itself, and all the other EU countries, [...]
Free Movement and Migration by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones 9th February 2018 It is time to put the record straight for the British public and reject the false message that the EU provides the open door to unbridled free movement or that it prevents the UK from deciding [...]
Corbyn Should Stop The UK’s Drift Out Of The EU by John Palmer 10th January 2018 This article first appeared on Social Europe. My friend John Weeks’ argument in Social Europe that Theresa May’s conclusion of a ‘First Stage’ Brexit agreement signals that the UK is now irreversibly on [...]
Brexit: The second phase 22nd January 2018 Speakers: Mary Honeyball, Labour MEP for London Brendan Donnelly, Director of the Federal Trust; former Conservative MEP (1994 - 1999) Lord Dykes, former MP for Harrow East (1970 - 1997) Chaired by Nicolas Maclean, Member of the Federal Trust's Advisory Council Video [...]
“How will the EU look in twenty years time?” London, 14th December 2017 Joint event with Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Global Policy Institute CONFERENCE REPORT Introduction In this last of the current series of discussions on the post-Brexit landscape, the speakers addressed the challenging and very wide-ranging issue of how the [...]
December 2017 “It will take all the “stiff upper lip” symbolized by Queen Victoria to overcome the economic storm unleashed from the British leaving the European Union” La Stampa, Italian newspaper. “You can check-out any time you like, But you can never leave!” Hotel California by the Eagles [...]
Speech by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones, after being awarded the International Award for Vision and Leadership by the European Association for International Education Hywel Ceri Jones was Head of the European Commission’s first-ever Department for Education and Youth Policies, as well as the Commission’s Director for Education, Training and Youth. He played the leading [...]
Citizenship and Free Movement in a Changing EU: Navigating an Archipelago of Contradictions by Professor Jo Shaw, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, University of Edinburgh 13th October 2017 Abstract This paper considers the implications - in relation to legal status of EU citizens and their families (and [...]
