This article was first published on Social Europe . By John Palmer Dear Jeremy, When I last wrote to you – courtesy of “Social Europe” – 15 months ago no one thought that, because of continuing dissent in the Parliamentary Labour Party, you would soon have to fight a [...]
by Dr Andrew Blick, Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust Download the report as pdf file. The EU referendum, devolution and the Union Introduction On 2 October 2016, the newly-installed Prime Minister, Theresa May, addressed the [...]
Britain and the EU: Difficult Questions after the Referendum Conference Report of the event held on 27th October 2016 Published December 2016 DOWNLOAD the report as pdf file Introduction As part of its ongoing commitment to analysing and discussing key European issues, the Federal Trust in conjunction with the [...]
by Andrew Duff (@AndrewDuffEU) 20th December 2016 Brexit: a lead from the Lords While MPs at Westminster continue to quarrel about the process of Brexit, the upper chamber of Britain’s parliament has been hard at work on the substance of Brexit — and in particular on the likely content [...]
In this article our director Brendan Donnelly argues that the triggering of Article 50 will not be the end of the Brexit story. Mrs May is likely to face over the next two years growing obstacles in her path of extricating the UK from the European Union. There is a [...]
by Professor Richard Whitman October 2016 This article was first published in "International Affairs". Since the referendum vote in June the majority of attention has focused on what might be the future economic relationship between the UK and the European Union (EU) and the prospects for the UK’s trade relationships [...]
by Professor Richard Whitmam 17 November 2016 This article was first published on the LSE EUROPP blog. The British government’s preparations for invoking Article 50, triggering the start of the formal Brexit negotiation process, have been split between writing the Brexit software and building the hardware. The Brexit hardware [...]
by John Palmer December 2016 Article first published by Itish Institute for European Affairs (IIEA), Dublin Given the momentous significance of the British decision to exit the European Union, it is striking how little firm information about what it might mean is, as yet, in the public domain. We know [...]
Basis for a Speech of Sir Brian Unwin to the Anglo-Netherlands Society, 18 November, 2016 I have chosen as the title of my talk “Does Brexit mean Brexit?”. I wish to explore further the Prime Minister’s repeated but uninformative tautology of “Brexit means Brexit”. Was the 23 June referendum [...]
Presentation by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones at the Conference held at the University of Swansea organised by the Morgan Academy and Schools of Management and Law 25th November 2016 Let me say at the outset that I was one of the 14 million Remainers, though I was also in favour [...]
