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:
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust This article was first published on the LSE BrexitVote blog. Much concern has already been expressed by some British commentators about the possible implications for Scotland of a vote for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union on 23rd June. [...]
by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust This article was first published on the LSE BrexitVote blog. When the Conservative members of the European Parliament first formed in the early 1990s a joint parliamentary group with the MEPs from the European Peoples Party, there was a certain condescending [...]
by Monica Threlfall (writing in a personal capacity), Reader in European Politics, London Metropolitan University The Leave people are always saying they want “our sovereignty back“. But for what purpose? What is this sovereignty and for whom is it supposed to work? Not for ordinary people. Sovereignty is a [...]
by Dr Tim Oliver, Dahrendorf Fellow on Europe-North America Relations, LSE Ideas Further referendums on Britain’s European question could happen whatever the result of June’s vote. In a recent report for the Federal Trust, Why the EU Referendum Will Not be the End of the Story, Dr Tim Oliver [...]
7th April 2016 Jointly organised with Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and Global Policy Institute This joint seminar with the Konrad Adenauer and Global Policy Institute discussed the impact of the forthcoming EU referendum on Anglo-German relations and how the Brexit discussion, and its possible implications, has been received in Germany. Speakers [...]
Britain and the EU: Difficult Questions Joint conference by The Federal Trust Global Policy Institute Industry Forum 25th February 2016 The relationship of the United Kingdom with the European Union is entering a new chapter. The UK is seeking a new settlement with its European partners through a process of [...]
