The Financial and Economic Implications of Brexit Speech by Sir Brian Unwin KCB, former President of the European Investment Bank, to the Jean Monnet Conference on Radical Political Movements in Europe at Lublin, Poland, on 8 September 2017 It is a great pleasure to be invited to this conference [...]
Needed: a politician who dares to question whether Brexit still makes sense Hard Brexit looks less likely, and soft Brexit won't please anyone. by Professor Iain Begg 14th July 2017 This article was first published by the New Statesman. There is now a vacancy of historic significance in British politics. [...]
by Professor Richard Whitman 30th June 2017 This article was first published by "The UK in a Changing Europe". Discussion of foreign and defence policy was largely conducted in terms of generalities during the EU referendum campaign. Key themes were the EU’s historic role in bringing peace to the [...]
From ERASMUS to ERASMUS + Presentation by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones CMG at Cardiff Met University, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the official launch of the EU's ERASMUS programme 28th June 2017 Thank you Vice Chancellor for your invitation to participate in this celebration of [...]
BREXIT, THE UK & THE EU Speech by Sir Brian Unwin KCB, former President of the European Investment Bank, at the Norwegian Parliament in Oslo 19 June 2017 Thank you for inviting me to speak in this distinguished forum – the heart of Norwegian democracy. It is a [...]
What now? Options for Brexit - And a cry for help by Andrew Duff (Former Member of the European Parliament; Visiting fellow, European Policy Centre) 15 June 2017 This paper was first published by the European Policy Centre, Brussels. Click here to download the publication in pdf format. In this [...]
The UK Brexit Campaign Is Starting To Fracture by John Palmer 12 June 2017 This article was first published on Social Europe The atmosphere of confusion, uncertainty and outright division which has long marked the UK Brexit campaign is now fated to become still more confused, uncertain [...]
Citizenship under attack - Some parallels between Weimar Germany and Brexit Britain by Professor Sam Whimster ‘If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what the very word “citizenship” means.” (Mrs May, Conservative Party Conference, Birmingham. October 2016.) [...]
“New Fault lines in Europe.....the political consequences of Brexit” by John Bruton, former Taoiseach Grattan lecture held at the Irish Embassy in London on 12 June 2017 THE HISTORIC CONTEXT OF BREXIT If one reviews European history over the period since the Reformation five hundred years ago, the [...]
The quintessentially democratic act? Democracy, political community and citizenship in and after the UK’s EU referendum of June 2016 by Professor Jo Shaw Journal of European Integration, Forthcoming; Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 12/2017. 19th May 2017 Abstract On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to [...]
