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 [...]
Brexit and Ireland 9th June 2016 Discussion about the implications of a possible Brexit for Anglo-Irish relations, and more particularly the situation in Northern Ireland. Speakers: Daithi O’Ceallaigh, Board member at the Institute for International and European Affairs, Dublin, and former Irish Ambassador in London Dr Mary Murphy, Lecturer [...]
31st May 2016 Jointly organised with Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Global Policy Institute Speakers: Dr Tim Oliver, Dahrendorf Fellow on Europe-North America Relations, LSE IDEAS Dr Hartmut Mayer, Offical Fellow and Lecturer in Politics (International Relations), St Peters College, University of Oxford Video interviews:
