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Brexit and Covid-19: The year ends as it has taken place
The last weeks of 2020 will provide a slew of illustrative material for future historians wishing to highlight the moral and administrative decline of the British state in face of the challenges of Brexit and Covid-19. Pride of place will go to the twin nominations to the House of Lords [...]
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Migration into Europe – a never-ending story about ourselves
by Anila Noor, Founding Director, New Women Connectors and Roger Casale, Founder, Secretary General & CEO, New Europeans Reproduced with kind permission from Voxeurop We have the historian Ferdinand Braudel to thank for the [...]
Can the United Kingdom be saved through federation? Lessons from 1919
by Sam Whimster Professor Sam Whimster is Deputy Director & Head of UK Futures Programme at Global Policy Institute; he is also Editor of Max Weber Studies. Andrew Adonis has recently argued that the [...]
Are we ignoring the services sector at our peril in the current Brexit negotiations?
While sounding more optimistic on how restarted talks were moving this week after last week’s showdown, the EU chief Brexit negotiator, Michael Barnier, tweeted on the 14th of December that ‘Never before has such a [...]
Im Westen nichts Neues – Nothing new on the Brexit front
One relief from the ongoing general uncertainty surrounding the ongoing negotiations between the European Union and the United Kingdom on a post-Brexit Free Trade Agreement has been to study specifics, such as its likely regional [...]
Valery Giscard d’Estaing – a European Dreamer
by Stefan Collignon Professor of Political Economy at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa; Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics This article first appeared in Italian on Euractiv.it (translated by Roberto Castaldi) No [...]
How post-Brexit Points-based Immigration Will Affect UK Employment
by Heather Barrigan Political Correspondent of ImmiNews, specializing in outreach and the creation of engaging and informative immigration-related content. The promise to end the free movement of EU citizens to the UK was a [...]
Brexit: No trade-offs means no deal
The dinner between Boris Johnson and Ursula von der Leyen on 9th December seems to have done little to improve the chances of an agreement on EU/UK trading relations before the end of the transition [...]
The No Deal Brexit Terminology
Republished with kind permission by Jon Worth from his Euroblog. Image copyright: A nightmare before Brexit! by duncan c, licensed under creative commons licence CC BY-NC 2.0 OK, I might be jumping the gun – [...]
Brexit and the decline of democracy
“The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared, when it becomes dangerous for them to defend it, it can [...]
Event: Where are we on the Brexit roundabout?
17th December 2020 "Deal" or "No Deal"? A fortnight before the transition period comes to an end, there will be plenty to discuss on the topic of Brexit, in whichever situation the UK will find [...]