Brexit
Making sense of Britain’s withdrawal from the EU with the help of University of Bath academics
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose? The 2019 European election results in France
The 2019 European election campaign in France was framed by the French media as a rerun of the second round of the 2017 presidential elections. The dominant narrative centred on who would be the leading party between President Macron’s Renaissance...
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5 options for Brexit trade explained
The British prime minister’s request for another Brexit delay results from the intensity of diverging positions in the British parliament over Brexit. After a series of indicative votes, where no Brexit plan received majority support, we can sum up the five...
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Why Has Corbyn Remained So Ambivalent About Brexit?
Why has Corbyn remained so ambivalent in this Brexit saga? He has a long history of Euroscepticism, rooted in the view that the EU is a neo-liberal project of global corporations. In addition, however, he wants, as Labour Prime Minister...
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Friends without benefits? Britain and the EU’s foreign and security policy
Flexible, circumstantial, and heavily reliant on informal consultations. That seems to be the future of the UK-EU relations in terms of foreign policy, if one is to follow the Political Declaration that was recently published together with the Withdrawal Agreement....
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Signed, sealed... but not yet delivered
So a Brexit deal has been signed and sealed – but is not yet quite delivered. Although there appears to have been relatively little Cabinet mutiny over the deal (at least compared to the multiple resignations following the Chequers conference)...
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Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Spain, Gibraltar and the UK’s Brexit Withdrawal Agreement
A former Spanish prime minister was in the habit of saying that, for Madrid and London, the issue of Gibraltar was not unlike having a stone in one’s shoe: an irritant which just wouldn’t go away. More a Rock than...
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Three warnings for the UK from Down Under
‘Brexit is just more proof the Poms have gone mad. As if we needed it’ said my colleague at Flinders University. And then she laughed. A lot. Obviously this was banter – and no self-respecting Aussie is going to pass...
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The problems with predicting the post-Brexit economy
Following the UK’s decision to leave the EU in 2016, there has been a constant debate on how this would affect the UK and EU economies. The results from the macroeconomic and microeconomic analyses have mostly tended to show that...
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SMEs and supply chains: Can they get ahead of the curve?
A Brexit deal is 'almost within touching distance', according to Cabinet Office minister David Lidington interviewed on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. What will this mean for UK businesses? Without knowing the exact bend of the curve, companies, small and...
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The DUP, Brexit and the Irish border
With less than 150 days until the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, the government claims to have 95 per cent of the Brexit deal ticked off. Within the remaining five per cent is an issue which shows no clear...
