24 09, 2020

Federal Union AGM: Discussion on Brexit and on the UK Constitution

By |2020-09-28T09:20:10+00:00September 24th, 2020|Categories: 2020, Brexit, Europe, Video|Tags: , , , , , , , |

22nd September 2020 Joint event held by Federal Union and The Federal Trust Speakers Richard Corbett, former Leader of the British Labour MEPs, and Dr Andrew Blick, Reader in Politics and Contemporary History at King's College London discussed the current state of the Brexit negotiations and the constitutional impact of [...]

28 02, 2020

Brexit Futures – Preparing to change the game

By |2020-06-23T15:51:36+00:00February 28th, 2020|Categories: Brexit, Views from the Federal Trust|Tags: , , , , |

by Peter CookBusiness and organisation consultant; Author of "Let's Talk about Brex..it"@AcademyofRock 28th February 2020 Brexit will unravel of its own contradictions.  I believe this will be sooner rather than later.  Brexit’s implosion will come from either what I call external socio-economic, political, environmental shocks or "internal combustion", due to [...]

14 02, 2020

Brexit: The British government starts to recognise reality

By |2020-06-04T09:19:53+00:00February 14th, 2020|Categories: Brexit, Europe|Tags: , , , , , , |

by Brendan DonnellyDirector, The Federal Trust 14th February 2020 Michael Gove’s acknowledgement that trade between the UK and the EU after 1st January 2021 will be far from frictionless is a watershed in the Brexit process. The claim that Brexit would not significantly impinge upon British trade with the European [...]

1 11, 2017

“Hard Brexit or no Brexit?”, that is the question

By |2017-11-02T10:24:29+00:00November 1st, 2017|Categories: Blog, Europe|Tags: , , , , , |

  By Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust 1st November 2017   In his recent testimony to the House of Lords, Sir Ivan Rogers, former British Permanent Representative to the European Union, criticized as premature and ill-prepared the Prime Minister’s triggering last March of Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty. [...]

23 05, 2017

“Hard Brexit”, International Trade and the WTO Scenario

By |2020-12-07T14:00:09+00:00May 23rd, 2017|Categories: Brexit, Reports & Policy Briefs, Trade & Financial services|Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

“Hard Brexit”, International Trade and the WTO Scenario   May 2017   With the assistance of Etienne Piciocchi and Michael Spracklin   Click here to download the paper in pdf format. Executive Summary This report looks at the possible consequences of a hard Brexit, following an unsuccessful conclusion of Article [...]

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