Tag: EU negotiations

Brexit, Trade & Economy

Post-Brexit trade negotiations would pose significant practical challenges for Whitehall

The implications of Brexit for the UK’s trade arrangements, a subject on which Leave and Remain campaigners have sharply disagreed, were addressed in the first two seminars of a series on Brexit hosted by the Constitution Unit and the UCL European Institute. Drawing on the comments of the seminar speakers, Oliver Patel discusses the impact that post-Brexit trade negotiations would have on Whitehall and the … Continue reading Post-Brexit trade negotiations would pose significant practical challenges for Whitehall

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Brexit, Migration & Identity

The EU deal – what does it mean for immigration and benefits?

Jonathan Portes, Principal Research Fellow at NIESR, and a Senior Fellow of UK in a Changing Europe, takes a closer look at David Cameron’s EU deal, and asks what impact it may have on immigration to the UK, free movement of EU citizens, and the contested issue of access to in work benefits in the UK. The President of the European Council, Donald Tusk, wrote … Continue reading The EU deal – what does it mean for immigration and benefits?

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Brexit, Politics & Governance

David Cameron Needs a Vision for the Future of Europe

Matt Wood, Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sheffield, analyses David Cameron’s recent attempts at negotiating reform of the EU. As Cameron concentrates on the UK’s position within the EU, is he missing the opportunity to secure allies by ignoring how EU reform could benefit all member states in the future? If David Cameron can’t convince the Polish Prime minister of the need for change in the EU, … Continue reading David Cameron Needs a Vision for the Future of Europe

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Brexit, Politics & Governance

Five minutes with Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol: “The UK already opts out of anything it dislikes; it could very well end up leaving the EU on an entirely flawed debate”

In an interview with UCL’s Claudia Sternberg, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow at the University of Glasgow’s Adam Smith Business School, discusses today’s EU referendum from the perspective of the last 50 years of the UK’s presence in EU. In what ways is today’s EU referendum different from the June 1975 precedent? The difference is that in 1974 the actual renegotiations started fairly … Continue reading Five minutes with Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol: “The UK already opts out of anything it dislikes; it could very well end up leaving the EU on an entirely flawed debate”

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Brexit, Politics & Governance

Neglected issues in the EU Referendum Bill

Professor Richard Rose, Director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde, explores unresolved issues in relation to the EU referendum bill, including voting thresholds and prospective timelines of reform and EU negotiations. Will there be a turnout threshold making the referendum decisive? At the UK’s 2014 European Parliament (EP) election turnout was 35.6 percent and at the 2015 British … Continue reading Neglected issues in the EU Referendum Bill

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