21 12, 2020

The UK’s Chaotic Brexit Slide Towards 2021

By |2020-12-23T13:55:07+00:00December 21st, 2020|Categories: Blog, Brexit, Coronavirus, Devolution, Europe, Europe, Foreign Policy & Defence, Scotland, UK Constitution, UK Devolution|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

With Covid gridlock in Kent, chaotic borders have arrived earlier than expected, although stockpiling ahead of the end of the transition was already causing queues and a glimpse into the UK’s difficult post-Brexit future. As talks and haggling continue over fishing, one thing is clear: deal or no deal, four [...]

9 12, 2020

The No Deal Brexit Terminology

By |2020-12-10T14:50:43+00:00December 9th, 2020|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Europe|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Republished with kind permission by Jon Worth from his Euroblog. Image copyright: A nightmare before Brexit! by duncan c, licensed under creative commons licence CC BY-NC 2.0   OK, I might be jumping the gun – there may yet be a Deal between Britain and the EU – but as a result [...]

24 11, 2020

Brexit, the City and equivalence

By |2020-11-24T12:24:14+00:00November 24th, 2020|Categories: Blog, Brexit, Trade & Financial services|Tags: , , , , , , , |

As discussions on an EU/UK trade deal post transition are now nearing the end, the City of London continues to worry about where it will be left from 1st January 2021. Financial services are not part of the main FTA agreement as had been hoped. Instead the City feels like [...]

20 11, 2020

The UK will never be ready for Brexit

By |2020-11-20T13:52:03+00:00November 20th, 2020|Categories: Brexit, Europe, Europe, Trade|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

The National Audit Office released last week a report on preparations for the end of the transition period after Brexit. The report was critical of the government for the inadequacy of these preparations and in particular for its failure to foresee and respond to the predictable administrative consequences of Brexit. [...]

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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