by Dr Andrew Blick, Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust Download this report in pdf format. Read the PRESS RELEASE. Introduction On 2 October 2016 Theresa May addressed her first Conservative Party Conference as Leader and Prime Minister. [...]
27th October 2016 Joint conference between Federal Trust, Global Policy Institute and Industry Forum Please click below for the Conference Report of this event: Conference Report (online) Conference Report (pdf file) Video interviews with the speakers (click here) Programme Session 1: Where does the Referendum leave us? Jackie [...]
29th September 2016 Joint event with: Speakers: Sebastian Borger London Correspondent for Berliner Zeitung, Der Standard and other German-speaking news publications Video Interview (Apologies for the inferior sound quality): Dr Nicolai von Ondarza Deputy Head of EU/Europe Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (Stiftung [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust It used to be claimed during the Cold War that in the countries of the Soviet bloc elections could not take place until the government had decided what their result should be. Here, we order these matters differently. We had a [...]
20th July 2016 Joint event with Global Policy Institute A panel discussion with speakers and commentators from the Federal Trust and Global Policy Institute: Brendan Donnelly, Directorm, The Federal Trust Nicolas Maclean, Council Member, The Federal Trust Viara Bojkova, Head of Geo-Economics Programme and Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust Recently installed as she is at 10 Downing Street, Theresa May has probably not yet given much thought to her resignation honours list when she ceases to be Prime Minister. If she does, an obvious candidate for preferment should be the [...]
by Viara Bojkova, Head of Geo-Economics Porgramme and Senior Research Fellow, Global Policy Institute While the UK economy and the society are still adjusting to the new political and business reality, to make any final conclusions about the Brexit impact on the rest of Europe seems challenging. My intention [...]
By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust for Education & Research Until the time of writing (15th July) the chaos wreaked on the United Kingdom by the disruptive and unexpected outcome of Mr. Cameron’s referendum on 23rd June has been more obviously political than economic. The personal ambitions and [...]
By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust It was a favourite dictum of the late Robin Leigh Pemberton, former Governor of the Bank of England, that it was easy to predict the future but impossible to know when it would happen. Events since 23rd June have more than [...]
Our Greatness Lies in Staying in Not Pulling out By Ira Straus, U.S. Coordinator of the Committee on Eastern Europe and Russia in NATO, an independent policy analysis organization; and Chair of the Center for War/Peace Studies Americans and Britons have a common interest in avoiding Brexit. I hope it [...]
