No Deal, No Brexit, or May's Brexit: Getting to legitimate procedures for voting among the options by Ira Straus 7th December 2018 About the AuthorIra Straus is the Chair of the Center for War-Peace Studies, which examines the use of complex electoral systems in holding plural societies together. In the 1990s, [...]
Exiting Brexit: The possibilities 4th December 2018 by Dr Andrew Blick Dr Andrew Blick is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at King’s College London, where he is also Director of the Centre for British Politics and Government. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust. Click [...]
Blame Brexit, not Theresa May 28th November 2018 by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust In the confused discussion surrounding the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration negotiated by Mrs. May with the EU 27, two particular criticisms are frequently voiced. Mrs. May, we are told on all [...]
Brexit: The Endgame? 3rd December 2018 After the publication of the proposed Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaration, the Prime Minister claimed that the Brexit negotiations were in the "endgame". The vagueness of the Political Declaration about the future relations between the EU and the UK make this a [...]
BREXIT: THE BEGINNING OF THE END? 16th November 2018 by Brendan Donnelly Director, The Federal Trust In the documents released this week by the British government and the EU there is a striking contrast between the detailed and specific nature of the proposed Withdrawal Agreement (WA) and [...]
Hostages to fortune: The unravelling of the Brexit prospectus November 2018 By Dr Andrew Blick About the Author Dr Blick is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at King’s College London, where he is also Director of the Centre for British Politics and Government. He is [...]
Hard Brexit: Passport to Nowhere for British Services With grateful thanks for assistance from E.Piciocchi, J.Kuozas & E.Manias. October 2018 “We're on a road to nowhere Come on inside Taking that ride to nowhere We'll take that ride... ....They can tell you what to do But they'll make a [...]
Defence in Europe in the shadow of Brexit – Implications for Germany and the UK 5th November 2018 Panel Discussion jointly organised by the Federal Trust with Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Global Policy Institute Panellists: Elisabeth Braw Director, Modern Deterrence programme, RUSI Professor Richard Whitman Professor Politics and International Relations , [...]
BREXIT: THE POLITICAL DECLARATION MUST BE VAGUE AND PRECISE AT THE SAME TIME by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 11th October 2018 The issues relating to the status of Northern Ireland after Brexit, and in particular the Irish “backstop,” have not yet been resolved. The major political [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 24th September 2018 Over the past two years, the Conservative Party has been riven by the conflict between those who wanted the United Kingdom after Brexit to remain closely aligned with the European Union as a trading partner; and those who [...]
