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 [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 19th December 2017 The frenzied negotiations to conclude the first phase of Brexit negotiations have usefully clarified the real choices faced by the British government in the second phase. The ambiguous and variously defined terms “soft” and “hard” Brexit have outlived their usefulness. [...]
By Dr Andrew Blick, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust 19th December 2017 The Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, David Davis, has described his plans for a future trading arrangement with the EU as ‘Canada [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 5th December 2017 Even during the European referendum last year it was clear that those who wished the UK to leave the European Union fell into two quite different camps, those who wanted Brexit to mark a decisive break in the economic and [...]
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 [...]
How will the EU look in twenty years time? Joint event with Konrad Adenauer Foundation and Global Policy Institute 14th December 2017 Speakers: Andrew Duff, Visiting Fellow at the European Policy Centre and President of the Spinelli Group; former MEP Kirsty Hughes, Director, Scottish Centre on European Relations Hans-Hartwig [...]
