PRESS RELEASE 02/05/2018 Federal Trust proposals for Eurozone Stabilisation Fund A new paper (Eurozone Stabilisation Fund Revisited), published by the Federal Trust think tank, discusses flaws in the design of the euro area and proposes a remedy via a Eurozone Stabilisation Fund ahead of June’s EU summit. Since its inception, [...]
PRESS RELEASE 1st December 2017 Brexit to hit its supporters hardest; and UK needs to forget hostility to the European Court of Justice The Federal Trust is today publishing two new studies by its Senior Fellows Dr Andrew Black and Dr Andrew Blick (sic). Dr Black uses input/output analysis [...]
Difficult Brexit questions yield some consensus Media brief: Findings from a new Brexit survey A newly released survey gives depth to attitudes towards Brexit. Three key findings from the 117 respondents to a questionnaire on Brexit were that there was: almost unanimity that Brexit is a threat to UK’s financial [...]
by Professor Richard Whitman November 2016 This article was first published by the ESRC's programme "The UK in a Changing Europe". Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech at the Mansion House on Monday demonstrated that her government has a gaping hole where it should have a foreign policy. The Lord [...]
This is a joint project between the Federal Trust, Global Policy Institute and Industry Forum The Federal Trust received at the end of 2015 a grant from the European Commission Representation in the UK to undertake a project exploring the difficult questions in the United Kingdom's relationship with the [...]
Is Europe losing the Internet race? Some implications for the European Union of the 2015 Mary Meeker report on Internet trends By Cameron Thomson* September 2015 Download the article as pdf file Introduction Mary Meeker is an American venture capitalist and former Wall Street securities analyst who [...]
English Votes for English Laws: a federal perspective 21 July 2015 By Dr Andrew Blick, Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust The rise of EVEL The government has been forced to postpone its plans for ‘English Votes [...]
The Queen’s Speech and the programme of the Conservative government: a federal perspective 29th May 2015 by Dr Andrew Blick, Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King's College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust The new government has now outlined its programme for the coming [...]
Contribution by Brendan Donnelly to the LSE project "Hacking the UK Constitution" https://constitutionuk.com 6th January 2015 Federalism, what federalism? It might be expected that the Federal Trust would welcome the willingness of politicians and commentators after the Scottish referendum to consider seriously what they describe as “federal” structures for the [...]
Ever since the late 1990s the Federal Trust has held conferences and seminars on the British constitution with specific reference to devolution. A significant number of books and papers have been published, including in 2006 “Modernising British Government” written by Professor Stanley Henig and with a foreword by Roy Hattersley. [...]
