Insights
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What’s the Deal with No-Deal? EU and UK Trade Dependency
The EU and the UK continue to negotiate a free trade agreement. Nonetheless, the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is being seriously considered in London and Brussels. In the case of a no-deal Brexit,...
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The UK Traps Itself in EU Relationship Problems
The Brexit saga keeps going, now reaching the point where the UK government has stated that the Withdrawal Agreement reached in October, which became an ‘oven ready deal’ helping the...
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September Song – EU-UK Talks Approach Decision Time
We are around halfway through the time allocated for UK-EU future relationship talks. It is four months since the UK finally left the EU, and four months from here take us to the end of September, by...
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UK Election 2019 – What it Means for Brexit and Future UK-EU Relations
Introduction The result of the UK General Election means that the UK will leave the EU at the end of January 2020, ending at least four years of uncertainty on that particular question. The wider...
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Brexit Extension Shows the UK Continues to Struggle with the Basics of International Negotiations
Yet again Brexit has been delayed. The EU has reluctantly granted another extension, this time of three months. It remains uncertain as to what might happen during this time, there may be an election...
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Isolation or Integration: Why the EU Free Trade Agreement the Brexiters Want Is Not Deliverable
In the race to be the next UK Prime Minister there is a strong narrative that the country’s future economic relationship with the EU can be simply solved. The EU backtracks on including the Irish...
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UK Brexit Direction Awaits New Conservative Party Leader
A new series of everyone’s favourite UK show, Brexit, has kicked off in dramatic style with the resignation as Conservative Party leader, encouraged by her own party, of Prime Minister Theresa May....
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Why the UK Government’s Brexit Proposals Were Defeated in Parliament Twice
There is a general rule of international negotiations, which is to make sure you have sufficient domestic support to ensure whatever you agree with other countries is ratified at home. You therefore...
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Who Are the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? Not What Mr. Boris Johnson Thinks
When announcing his “Better Plan for Brexit” in The Daily Telegraph, Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson observed “that the one size fits all EU model of regulation—according to the...
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Brexit: The Marginal Effects of EU Agricultural Subsidies on UK Trade
Although it is yet unclear when exactly and under which conditions, but the UK will eventually leave the Single Market. Several studies have therefore assessed the expected impacts of reintroduced...