20 09, 2021

Brexit: Rejoiners should learn from Remainers

By |2021-12-17T10:28:30+00:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Brexit, September 2021|Tags: , , , |

Many hoping the United Kingdom will rejoin the European Union one day advocate a gradualist strategy. It is futile, they argue, to rail against the principle of Brexit itself. In time, the economic disadvantages of Brexit will reveal themselves ever more plainly. This in turn will lead to pressure from [...]

20 09, 2021

Brexit, the Euro and Rejoin

By |2021-12-17T10:28:45+00:00September 20th, 2021|Categories: Brexit, September 2021|Tags: , , , , , , |

There is much talk amongst erstwhile Remainers that we must not anticipate, let alone advocate, an early British return to the European Union. Some, whose grasp of history is limp, even compare our situation to that of the Jacobites following the failure of the ’45. Many of us are certainly [...]

18 09, 2021

EU and UK trade talks after Brexit

By |2021-12-17T10:28:58+00:00September 18th, 2021|Categories: Brexit, September 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

The European Union (EU) has been finalizing multiple trade deals since Brexit, many of which have been painstakingly negotiated over several years.  Meanwhile, the UK government has been hurriedly concluding numerous continuity trade agreements (rolling over former EU deals) and embarking on new ones, raising alarm bells over their quality [...]

18 09, 2021

Why the German election matters, but less so its winner

By |2021-12-17T10:29:11+00:00September 18th, 2021|Categories: Brexit, September 2021|Tags: , , , , |

Germany’s upcoming election will influence the course and direction of the European Union for the coming decade. Irrespective of the exact make-up of the next German government and who will become the new Chancellor, there has been a growing alignment between the main parties on all the key policy issues. [...]

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