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  • ‘Come What May’: Boris Johnson’s Brexit Challenge
    ‘Come What May’:  Boris Johnson’s Brexit Challenge Giulia Gentile  (King’s College London) Boris Johnson has won the leadership of the Conservative Party and is set to become the next Prime Minister of the UK. Since the 23rd of June 2016, UK politics have been dominated by the instability and uncertainty surrounding Brexit....
    July 23, 2019
  • Brexit’s Implications for UK-EU Relations in Justice and Home Affairs
    Brexit’s Implications for UK-EU Relations in Justice and Home Affairs Christine Andreeva (Dublin City University)  The EU’s Area of Freedom Security and Justice (AFSJ; also referred to as Justice and Home Affairs - JHA) has a very specific mandate as compared to other EU policy areas. Officially a shared competence since...
    July 19, 2019
    Christine Andreeva
  • Von der Leyen’s Paper-Thin Election: Will She Keep her Promises?
    Von der Leyen’s Paper-Thin Election: Will She Keep her Promises? Giovanni Zaccaroni  (DCU Brexit Institute) The election of the President of the European Commission is the topical moment of the EU’s political life. The new Commission, in the aftermath of the May 2019 European elections, is expected to start its...
    July 17, 2019
    Giovanni Zaccaroni
  • As Brexit Advances, Grexit Recedes: The Greek Elections and the New Normal
    As Brexit Advances, Grexit Recedes: The Greek Elections and the New Normal Angelos Angelou  (LSE  European Institute) One would be in for a surprise looking at the press coverage that Greece received after its recent elections on 7 July. The outside observer will find himself looking at two entirely different narratives....
    July 12, 2019
    Angelos Angelou
  • Not United, but Linked in Negotiations with the EU: Switzerland and the UK
    Not United, but Linked in Negotiations with the EU: Switzerland and the UK Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (DCU Brexit Institute) Since its decision not to join the EEA in 1992, Switzerland has been continuously negotiating with the EU on various aspects of cooperation, participation and integration. Most recent negotiations about an institutional framework...
    July 8, 2019
    Charlotte Sieber-Gasser
  • The New EU Top Jobs and the Future of Europe
    The New EU Top Jobs and the Future of Europe Federico Fabbrini  (DCU Brexit Institute) Les jeux sont fait. After extensive wrangling and negotiations, the heads of state and government of the EU member states found a magical compromise to identify the leaders of the top jobs for the EU’s next...
    July 4, 2019
    Federico Fabbrini
  • Switzerland-EU Bilateralism: From Pragmatism to Mutual Frustration
    Switzerland-EU Bilateralism: From Pragmatism to Mutual Frustration Cenni Najy  (University of Geneva) Switzerland’s European integration trajectory has been unique and very puzzling to most observers. Switzerland is indeed a particular case. It is the only country of Western Europe not to have joined the EU or the multilateral association offered by...
    July 2, 2019
    Cenni Naji
  • Brexit, Spain and British Gibraltar
    Brexit, Spain and British Gibraltar Gerry O'Reilly (Dublin City University)   Brexit has been closely followed by UK and EU citizens alike in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar (area: 6.8 sq. km.) and its Spanish hinterlands - Campo de Gibraltar in Andalucía. For people there, as in Dundalk, Newry, Derry/Londonderry and...
    June 27, 2019
    Gerry O'Reilly
  • Brexit, the Euro Summit, and Eurozone Governance Reform
    Brexit, the Euro Summit, and Eurozone Governance Reform Ian Cooper (DCU Brexit Institute) Last week’s summit of EU leaders was actually two separate meetings. On Thursday there was a meeting of the European Council, the heads of state and government of all 28 EU member states, which defines the political direction...
    June 25, 2019
    Ian Cooper
  • Brexit and the Political Economy of Northern Ireland
    Brexit and the Political Economy of Northern Ireland M. Leann Brown (University of Florida) There has been a flood of speculation, analysis, predictions and dire warnings about the possible economic consequences of the secession of the United Kingdom from the European Union for Northern Ireland (NI). Much of this commentary focuses on...
    June 20, 2019
    M. Leann Brown
  • The Spitzenkandidaten Process: Requiem for a Misguided Eurodream?
    The Spitzenkandidaten Process: Requiem for a Misguided Eurodream?  R. Daniel Kelemen (Rutgers University)   According to its proponents, the Spitzenkandidaten process was supposed to help democratize the EU. So far, it hasn’t quite worked out that way. While there is evidence the Spitzenkandidaten process has had some beneficial effects for EU democracy, it has also had...
    June 19, 2019
    R. Daniel Keleman
  • Event Report: ‘Which Brexit After the European Elections?'
    Event Report: ‘Which Brexit After the European Elections?' Tom McDonald (DCU Brexit Institute) The Gallery Room at the Helix, Dublin City University (DCU) was bustling on 14th June 2019 at the DCU Brexit Institute seminar event ‘Which Brexit After European Parliament Elections?’. The event was divided into two parts: a keynote speech...
    June 19, 2019
    Tom McDonald
  • Facing the Rights and Equality Crisis: Achieving a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland in the wake of Brexit
    Facing the Rights and Equality Crisis: Achieving a Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland in the wake of Brexit Anne Smith (Ulster University) and Colin Harvey (Queen’s University Belfast)   Brexit is giving rise to anxiety about a ‘major constitutional change’ that is creating ‘constitutional uncertainty’, but it has also resulted...
    June 18, 2019
    Anne Smith and Colin Harvey
  • BREXIT and Terrorism: EU Law on Terrorism Facing the Threat of BREXIT
    BREXIT and Terrorism: EU Law on Terrorism Facing the Threat of BREXIT  Ferdinando Angeletti (La Sapienza University) and Giangiuseppe Pili (Dublin City University)   Introduction UK’s exit from the European Union is still not completed: according to the procedure defined by Article 50 of the European Union Treaty (so-called Brexit) the process is not...
    June 13, 2019
    Ferdinando Angeletti and Giangiuseppe Pili
  • European Elections: A European Perspective - Deadlock or a New Beginning?  
    European Elections: A European Perspective - Deadlock or a New Beginning?   Matteo Scotto (German-Italian Centre for European Excellence Villa Vigoni)   After months of harsh political campaigning in Europe, the elections for the European Parliament are finally behind us. Henceforth, the European Union will have to deal with one relevant novelty in the...
    June 12, 2019
    Matteo Scotto
  • European elections - The Italian perspective: Italian populist nationalism changes but remains in charge
    European elections - The Italian perspective: Italian populist nationalism changes but remains in charge Francesco Clementi (University of Perugia) On Sunday 26th May 2019, Italian voters have voted to elect the new Italian representatives to the European Parliament. Before commenting on the results and their effects, three main elements can be...
    June 11, 2019
    Francesco Clementi
  • Peterborough: Labour’s squeaky victory and the vacuum on the right
    Peterborough: Labour’s squeaky victory and the vacuum on the right Alan Wager (The UK in a Changing Europe)   On 8 June 2017, Fiona Onasanya, the newly-elected Labour MP for Peterborough, averred that her victory by some 607 votes proved that "the people know there is a better way. I think I...
    June 7, 2019
    Alan Wager
  • European Elections - the UK Perspective. Brexit and the Unsettling of the Two-Party System
    European Elections - the UK Perspective. Brexit and the Unsettling of the Two-Party System Edoardo Bressanelli (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)   If the British political situation could be summarised with a slogan, this would be “once upon a time: the Westminster system”. That is, a political system characterised by stable governments, strong...
    June 6, 2019
    Edoardo Bressanelli
  • European elections, European values, and Brexit
    European elections, European values, and Brexit Sébastien Platon (Bordeaux University)   The results of the recent European elections have shown a massive reshuffling of the European political landscape. The two European parties which have dominated the European Parliament for decades, the European People’s Party (EPP, centre-right) and the Socialists & Democrats (S&D,...
    June 5, 2019
    Sébastien Platon
  • Why Trump’s Trade Policy is no Friend of Brexit
    Why Trump’s Trade Policy is no Friend of Brexit Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (DCU Brexit Institute)   The escalation in the numerous trade disputes initiated by the US government and the fact that the World Trade Organization (WTO) is unlikely to maintain a fully operational dispute settlement system beyond 2019 must be taken into...
    June 4, 2019
    Charlotte Sieber-Gasser
  • European Elections: The Silence of the Lambs and the Dangerous Political Resignation - The Portuguese Perspective
    European Elections: The Silence of the Lambs and the Dangerous Political Resignation - The Portuguese Perspective Catarina Santos Botelho (Universidade Católica Portuguesa)   A week after 2019 European Parliamentary (EP) elections, there are several reflections worth considering. To begin with, the two traditional blocs – centre-right European People's Party (EPP) and the...
    June 3, 2019
    Catarina Santos Botelho
  • European Elections: A political earthquake which will not solve the Brexit saga
    European Elections: A political earthquake which will not solve the Brexit saga Gianfranco Baldini (University of Bologna) and Andrea Pareschi (St. Anna School) Each European election is unique in their own way, and the election held a week ago in the United Kingdom had many reasons for being so. First, the...
    May 30, 2019
    Gianfranco Baldini and Andrea Pareschi
  • European Elections - The Polish Perspective
    European Elections - The Polish Perspective Aleksandra Garlinska (European Parliament)   From 23 to 26 May 2019 across 28 EU countries, the second-biggest democratic vote in the world took place. 427 million voters have elected 751 representatives to the European Parliament, our Member of the European Parliament (MEPs). While in theory, European citizens...
    May 29, 2019
    Aleksandra Garlinska
  • May Day: Brexit & the Future of Europe
    May Day: Brexit & the Future of Europe Federico Fabbrini (Director, DCU Brexit Institute) On 23 May 2019 – exactly 35 months after the British people voted to leave the European Union (EU) – the United Kingdom (UK), against all expectations, held elections for the European Parliament (EP). On 24 May...
    May 27, 2019
    Federico Fabbrini
  • Brexiting Party Politics in Northern Ireland – Civil Society Alternatives
    Brexiting Party Politics in Northern Ireland – Civil Society Alternatives Cillian McGrattan (Ulster University)   The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) topped the poll in the recent Northern Ireland local government elections: 24.1%, an increase of 1% from 2014, compared with its cross-community rival Sinn Fein, which won 23.2%, a decrease of almost...
    May 23, 2019
    Cillian McGrattan
  • Event Report: ‘Brexit and the European Parliament Elections 2019’
    Event Report: ‘Brexit and the European Parliament Elections 2019’ Tom McDonald (DCU Brexit Institute) The conference room at Europe House in Dublin city center was full on 16th of May when the DCU Brexit Institute hosted a seminar event on “Brexit & European Elections 2019”. The event was divided into two...
    May 22, 2019
    Tom McDonald
  • European Parliament elections in times of (delayed) Brexit
    European Parliament elections in times of (delayed) Brexit Patrick Bijsmans (Maastricht University)   At the time of writing, we are nearing the third anniversary of the Brexit referendum of 23 June 2016. While a cause for celebration or a grave feeling of loss, depending on where you stand on the issue, it almost...
    May 21, 2019
    Patrick Bijsmans
  • The Ireland-European Election Conundrum
    The Ireland/European Election Conundrum Gary Murphy (Dublin City University)   Ever since Ireland first held contested elections to the European Parliament in 1979 conventional political wisdom has suggested that attitudes to the incumbent government or to the candidates on offer have shaped such elections in Ireland. Sentiment about the EU itself...
    May 16, 2019
    Gary Murphy
  • European Parliament Elections 2019 and the European demos in the midst of difficult challenges
    European Parliament Elections 2019 and the European demos in the midst of difficult challenges Anastasia Deligiaouri (Dublin City University) The European Parliament (EP) is the only institution in the EU, which enjoys a direct election procedure from European citizens. Multilingualism and multiculturalism are both inherent and well embedded in its structure and...
    May 15, 2019
    Anastasia Deligiaouri
  • The Composition of the 2019-24 EU Parliament – Challenges in Light of Brexit
    The Composition of the 2019-24 EU Parliament – Challenges in Light of Brexit Rebecca Schmidt (Dublin City University) The decision by the European Council to grant a further extension under Article 50 (3) TEU to the UK’s withdrawal from the EU will impact the EU Parliament in unprecedented ways. One crucial...
    May 14, 2019
    Rebecca Schmidt
  • The Good Friday Agreement and Brexit
    The Good Friday Agreement and Brexit Rory O’Connell (Ulster University)   The murder of the journalist Lyra McKee on the eve of Good Friday 2019 is a tragic reminder of the successes and failures of the Peace Process, and the challenges facing it. That her death made international headlines reflects in one sense...
    May 13, 2019
    Rory O’Connell
  • Will Brexit Return Northern Ireland to War or Reinforce the Status Quo?
    Will Brexit Return Northern Ireland to War or Reinforce the Status Quo? Carolyn Gallaher and Kimberly Cowell-Meyers (American University, Washington, DC.)   A lot has been written about what Brexit may do to the British economy and its place in the world. People are also finally starting to pay attention to what Brexit...
    May 8, 2019
    Carolyn Gallaher and Kimberly Cowell-Meyers
  • Belated Brexit and Groundhog Talks in Northern Ireland
    Belated Brexit and Groundhog Talks in Northern Ireland Cillian McGrattan (Ulster University)   Fumbled Beginnings The latest round of talks in Northern Ireland to restore devolved power-sharing has not begun well. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP, Ian Paisley, for instance, has suggested that Tanaiste Simon Coveney should ‘butt out’ of Northern Irish...
    May 7, 2019
    Cillian McGrattan
  • What your vote in the European elections will and won’t change on Brexit
    What your vote in the European elections will and won’t change on Brexit Simon Usherwood (University of Surrey and UK in a Changing Europe) One of the less-noticed side-effects of the Easter break was that it made it almost certain that the UK will hold elections on 23 May for the...
    May 2, 2019
    Simon Usherwood
  • Brexit: the 2019 General Elections in Spain and British Gibraltar
    Brexit: the 2019 General Elections in Spain and British Gibraltar Gerry O'Reilly (Dublin City University) For months, commentators in Spain and abroad closely monitored the growing influence of populist and right-wing parties in Spain in the run-up to the 2019 General Elections. Similarly, events were closely watched by UK and EU...
    May 1, 2019
    Gerry O'Reilly
  • Years Into the Brexit Process, the UK Still Faces Fundamental Choices for its Future Relationship with the EU
    Years Into the Brexit Process, the UK Still Faces Fundamental Choices for its Future Relationship with the EU Pervez Ghauri (University of Birmingham) and Ursula Ott (Nottingham Trent University) Pervez Ghauri and Ursula Ott in their paper “Brexit negotiations: from negotiation space to agreement zones” use bargaining theory models of rational...
    April 30, 2019
    Pervez Ghauri and Ursula Ott
  • Would British citizens vote differently now that they know more about the EU-27’s response to Brexit?
    Would British citizens vote differently now that they know more about the EU-27’s response to Brexit? Charlotte Grynberg (London School of Economics) The 2016 Brexit vote was in many respects a leap in the dark: UK citizens voted to end their country’s membership of the EU without any indication of the...
    April 25, 2019
    Charlotte Grynberg
  • New Study by UNCTAD on Implications of No-Deal Brexit for Developing Countries
    New Study by UNCTAD on Implications of No-Deal Brexit for Developing Countries Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (DCU Brexit Institute) A recent study by UNCTAD indicates that the poorest developing countries are at risk of a decline in exports to the UK in the case of No-Deal Brexit. On the other hand, industrial countries, emerging...
    April 23, 2019
    Charlotte Sieber-Gasser
  • 'A Beacon to the World': The Good Friday Agreement at Twenty-One
    'A Beacon to the World': The Good Friday Agreement at Twenty-One Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin City University) The Good Friday Agreement, which is 21 years old this month, institutionalised a peace process that has fundamentally altered day-to-day life in Ireland, where an entire generation has grown up without the spectre of...
    April 18, 2019
    Donnacha Ó Beacháin
  • Ad Kalendas Graecas? The Future of Brexit and Its Consequences for the EU
    Ad Kalendas Graecas? The Future of Brexit and Its Consequences for the EU Federico Fabbrini (DCU Brexit Institute) On 10 April 2019 the European Council unanimously accepted a second request by Prime Minister Theresa May to further postpone the withdrawal date of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU)....
    April 16, 2019
    Federico Fabbrini
  • Thirty-Four Months On: What Next For BREXIT?
    Thirty-Four Months On: What Next For BREXIT? Tom Frost (University of Sussex) On 10 April, an emergency meeting of the European Council was convened to discuss the latest developments on Brexit. On 5 April, the Prime Minister wrote to Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, asking for a further extension...
    April 11, 2019
    Tom Frost
  • Does the House of Commons have power without influence?
    Does the House of Commons have power without influence? Jack Simson Caird (Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law) The impasse over the Withdrawal Agreement has highlighted the inability of the House of Commons to shape the substance of the Brexit deal. There is a growing sense of frustration at the apparent unwillingness...
    April 8, 2019
    Jack Simson Caird
  • Event Report: High - Level Policy Dialogue, 4 April 2019
    Event Report: High - Level Policy Dialogue, 4 April 2019 Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (DCU Brexit Institute) On 4 April 2019, Grant Thornton hosted the High-Level Policy Dialogue between Georgios Papacostantinou (EUI School of Transnational Governance, former Finance Minister of Greece) and Denis MacShane (former Europe Minister of the UK), organised by the DCU...
    April 5, 2019
    Charlotte Sieber-Gasser 
  • Event Report: Brexit, the terms of Withdrawal and the Framework of future EU-UK Relations
    Event Report: Brexit, the terms of Withdrawal and the Framework of future EU-UK Relations Cliodhna Joyce-Daly (DCU Brexit Institute) and Oliver Garner (European University Institute and DCU Brexit Institute) On 29 March, 2019, the Brexit Institute hosted the ‘Brexit, the Terms of Withdrawal and the Framework of Future EU-UK Relations’ conference...
    April 4, 2019
    Cliodhna Joyce-Daly and Oliver Garner
  • All-Island Customs Union: No Cure-All for the Irish Border Neither
    All-Island Customs Union: No Cure-All for the Irish Border Neither  Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (DCU Brexit Institute) The “All-Ireland Common No-Custom Area” as suggested by Giorgio Sacerdoti and Paola Mariani on this Blog yesterday has its merits: it liberates the UK from the need to remain in a Customs Union with the EU in...
    April 2, 2019
    Charlotte Sieber-Gasser
  • An alternative to the Irish Backstop? An “All-Ireland Common No-Custom Area” as a Frontier Traffic Area under Art. XXIV GATT for products originating in the island
    Giorgio Sacerdoti & Paola Mariani (Bocconi University) This article is a proposal which will be discussed in future blogs. (a) The situation envisaged under the Backstop. Let us first recall the terms of the issue. During the transition period (which will last until, at the latest, December 2022), the UK government will...
    April 1, 2019
    Paola Mariani and Giorgio Sacerdoti
  • Waiting for Brexit
    Waiting for Brexit Kenneth Armstrong (University of Cambridge)  It is now two years since the UK Prime Minister Theresa May wrote to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk to notify him of the UK’s intention to withdraw from the European Union. If things had gone to plan, this would...
    March 29, 2019
    Kenneth Armstrong
  • Country before Party?
    Country before Party? Ioannis Asimakopoulos (DCU Brexit Institute) While preparations for a no-deal Brexit have intensified, while May’s deal has already been voted against twice, and with time running out, suddenly a glimpse of hope arose that a no-deal Brexit can be actually prevented. Ironically enough, it is not the...
    March 28, 2019
    Ioannis Asimakopoulos
  • The European Council Shrewdly Grants the UK a Short, Conditional Brexit Extension
    The European Council Shrewdly Grants the UK a Short, Conditional Brexit Extension Ian Cooper (DCU Brexit Institute) Last night in Brussels, the leaders of the EU-27 made a cool, rational decision regarding the UK’s request for an extension of the Article 50 period. Theresa May had requested an extension of just...
    March 22, 2019
    Ian Cooper
  • 'May vs Erskine May' - Brexit and the Speaker of the House of Commons
    ‘May vs Erskine May’ - Brexit and the Speaker of the House of Commons Ian Cram (School of Law, Leeds University) This blog takes as its focus the ruling by the Speaker of the House of Commons on 18th March that the Government would not be allowed to bring back...
    March 22, 2019
    Ian Cram
  • Brexit in the Spirit of the Treaties
    Brexit in the Spirit of the Treaties Ton van den Brink (University of Utrecht) A new phase of Brexit uncertainty has started now that the British Prime Minister has asked for an extension of Article 50. Uncertainty on whether the EU will agree on the length of the extension, on how...
    March 21, 2019
    Ton van den Brink
  • The EU Should Insist on a Long Extension of Article 50
    The EU Should Insist on a Long Extension of Article 50 Nicolai von Ondarza (SWP) After the renewed rejection of Theresa May's withdrawal agreement and the symbolic rejection of a No-Deal-Brexit, the question of the extension of the exit process is now the main focus of the Brexit drama. On Wednesday,...
    March 20, 2019
    Nicolai von Ondarza
  • A Week is a Very Long Time in Brexitland
    A Week is a Very Long Time in Brexitland Alan S. Reid (Sheffield Hallam University) Brexit continues to surprise, dismay and amaze in equal measure. Like any good soap opera, a good cliff-hanger ending is required at the end of every episode of Brexitland 2019. This week and last week were...
    March 20, 2019
    Alan S. Reid
  • Fog In Channel - The Continent is Confused
    Fog in Channel – The Continent is Confused Pietro Manzini (University of Bologna) Perhaps the famous headline 'Fog in Channel - the Continent is cut off' is a fake, but certainly in these days of Brexit the Channel is full of fog and the Continent – from where I write -...
    March 20, 2019
    Pietro Manzini
  • No Extension Without Elections
    No Extension without Election European Parliament Elections as an Obstacle to Article 50 Extension Mauro Gatti After the 12-13 March 2019 parliamentary votes on Brexit, it would seem that the UK will ask the EU for an extension under Article 50 TEU, to prepare for a “no deal” scenario or to approve...
    March 19, 2019
    Mauro Gatti
  • The Fate of the Withdrawal Agreement and the Extension of Article 50
    The Fate of the Withdrawal Agreement and the Extension of Article 50 Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (University of Lucerne) Following the announcement of House of Commons Speaker John Bercow, the British parliament is unlikely to vote for a third time on the Withdrawal Agreement. The agreement has been rejected by parliament twice in...
    March 19, 2019
    Charlotte Sieber-Gasser
  • Towards a New Cliff Edge in May
    Towards a New Cliff Edge in May? Larissa Brunner and Fabian Zuleeg (European Policy Centre) While the outcome of Brexit remains unclear after yet more turbulence in the UK Parliament, what appears more or less certain is that the UK is unlikely to leave the EU on 29 March, though...
    March 18, 2019
    Larissa Brunner and Fabian Zuelegg
  • The Failure of the EU-UK Legal Guarantees to Save the Withdrawal Agreement
    The Failure of the EU-UK Legal Guarantees to Save the Withdrawal Agreement Chloé Papazian (DCU Brexit Institute) Exactly three months have passed since the UK Prime Minister Theresa May postponed the vote by the House of Commons on the withdrawal agreement on 11 December 2018. The following day, she embarked upon...
    March 13, 2019
    Chloé Papazian
  • The ‘European Renewal’ of French President Emmanuel Macron
    The ‘European Renewal’ of French President Emmanuel Macron Chloé Papazian (Dublin City University) On 4 March 2019, French President Emmanuel Macron wrote an opinion article for a ‘European renewal’ addressed directly to the citizens of Europe which was published in several European newspapers yesterday. One year and an half after his speech...
    March 6, 2019
    Chloé Papazian
  • A Fiscal Capacity for the Eurozone: Constitutional Perspectives – Executive Summary
    By Federico Fabbrini (Dublin City University) The European Parliament’s Committee for Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) recently asked Prof. Federico Fabbrini, Director of the DCU Brexit Institute, to write an in-depth report on the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). The report "A Fiscal Capacity for the Eurozone: Constitutional Perspectives" is available here. This is...
    March 6, 2019
    Federico Fabbrini
  • UK and EU Intelligence Communities in an Age of Durable Disorder After Brexit
    UK and EU Intelligence Communities in an Age of Durable Disorder After Brexit Giangiuseppe Pili (Dublin City University) Brexit is a major challenge for the present and future security policy of both the UK and the EU. Indeed, all the different possible scenarios show that Brexit will pose several issues inside...
    March 4, 2019
    Giangiuseppe Pili
  • The Effects of Brexit on the Future of European Security Order and NATO: An Assessment
    The Effects of Brexit on the Future of European Security Order and NATO: An Assessment Cornelia-Adriana Baciu and John Doyle (Dublin City University)  What helped the Spartan League to win the Peloponnesian Wars in the 5th century BC was the pursuance of a rightful and capable strategy. ‘Tactics without a strategy...
    March 1, 2019
    Cornelia-Adriana Baciu and John Doyle
  • The Show Must Go On: Understanding the Brexit Theatre
    The Show Must Go On: Understanding the Brexit Theatre Federico Fabbrini (Director, DCU Brexit Institute) Thirty Days. This is what’s left before the default exit of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). But the fans of the Brexit show have by now got used to coups de theatre...
    February 28, 2019
    Federico Fabbrini
  • An Overview of the No-Deal Brexit Omnibus Bill
    An Overview of the No-Deal Brexit Omnibus Bill Clíodhna Joyce-Daly and Chloé Papazian (Dublin City University) Last Friday 22 February, the Irish Government published the Omnibus Bill also called the Consequential Provisions Bill 2019 for the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom Without a Deal which will enter into force if the...
    February 27, 2019
    Cliodhna Joyce-Daly and Chloé Papazian (Dublin City University)
  • Brexit and the UK’s Self-Exile from Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny of Europol
    Brexit and the UK’s Self-Exile from Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny of Europol Ian Cooper (DCU Brexit Institute) Today in the Romanian Parliament, there is a meeting of a body tasked with the democratic oversight of Europol, the EU Agency for Police Cooperation. It is called the Joint Parliamentary Scrutiny Group (JPSG), and it includes...
    February 25, 2019
    Ian Cooper
  • The Future of the All-island Single Electricity Market Post-Brexit
    The Future of the All-island Single Electricity Market Post- Brexit Dr. Tanya Harrington (Powerscourt Group)   Introduction The Single Electricity Market (SEM) has a proud 12-year long track-record of delivering secure electricity supplies to citizens on the island of Ireland. It is emblematic of EU energy policy for regional governance in terms of...
    February 22, 2019
    Tanya Harrington
  • The Affective Understanding of Post-Brexit European Integration
    The Affective Understanding of Post-Brexit European Integration Simona Guerra (University of Leicester) Theofanis Exadaktylos (University of Surrey) Roberta Guerrina (University of Surrey) Euroscepticism as a subject of research has taken a new turn following the 2016 British referendum to leave the European Union (EU) in terms of blame attribution and political polarization. Chris Flood...
    February 20, 2019
    Simona Guerra, Theofanis Exadaktylos, and Roberta Guerrina
  • Brexit and Family Business
    Brexit and Family Business Yvonne Kiely (Dublin City University)  Insights on how family businesses can plan ahead for the consequences of Brexit urge a greater focus on family dynamics and next generation planning, according to Eric Clinton, professor at DCU Business School and Director of the DCU National Centre for Family...
    February 8, 2019
    Yvonne Kiely
  • Event Report: Brexit and Agri-Food
    Event Report: Brexit and Agri-Food Chloé Papazian (DCU Brexit Institute) On January 31, the DCU Brexit Institute hosted an event on Brexit and Agri-Food. The event was opened by Micheline Calmy-Rey (former President of Switzerland) and featured a Panel discussion with leading academics and industry specialists. The Panel included Eric Clinton...
    February 4, 2019
    Chloé Papazian
  • Is "Global Britain" a Viable Role for the Post-Brexit UK?
    Is "Global Britain" a Viable Role for the Post-Brexit UK? Andrew Glencross (Aston University) The “Global Britain” slogan is the brainchild of Prime Minister Theresa May. She proposed the term in her first major speech on the UK’s post-Brexit posture as a way to fight off accusations that leaving the EU...
    February 1, 2019
    Andrew Glencross
  • Do “Realms of Gold” Await Global Britain in South America? Prospects for a UK-Mercosur Trade Deal
    Do “Realms of Gold” Await Global Britain in South America? Prospects for a UK-Mercosur Trade Deal Michael Mindorff and Louise Bekkers (Leiden University College The Hague) Last May, then-Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson wrote rhapsodically of the "realms of gold" awaiting the UK in South America  after the UK’s withdrawal from the EU. The...
    January 29, 2019
    Michael Mindorff and Louise Bekkers
  • Emerging Post-Brexit Relations of Switzerland with the EU and the UK: New Year, New Treaties?
    Emerging Post-Brexit Relations of Switzerland with the EU and the UK: New Year, New Treaties? Charlotte Sieber-Gasser (University of Lucerne) In its relations with Europe, Switzerland relies on more than 120 treaties regulating partial integration and sectoral market access in the EU and in the EFTA. The centrepiece of market access and partial...
    January 24, 2019
    Charlotte Sieber-Gasser
  • The Future of UK-EU Development Cooperation After Brexit: Finding a New Point of Departure
    The Future of UK-EU Development Cooperation After Brexit: Finding a New Point of Departure Emmanuel De Groof and Andrew Sherriff  (European Centre for Development Policy Management – ECDPM) On Tuesday 15 January, the draft withdrawal agreement – the result of 18 months of intense negotiations between British Prime Minister Theresa May’s government...
    January 21, 2019
    Emmanuel De Groof and Andrew Sherriff
  • The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Norwegian Escape Route for Post-Brexit Britain?
    The Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Norwegian Escape Route for Post-Brexit Britain? Ciarán Burke (Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena) “I am pro having my cake and pro eating it,” remarked Boris Johnson when explaining his Brexit stance in the spring of 2016. Three years later, the recipe for a digestible Brexit...
    January 17, 2019
    Ciarán Burke
  • Brexit: What Next?
    Brexit: What Next? Federico Fabbrini (Director, DCU Brexit Institute) Last night the UK Parliament voted  resoundingly against the Brexit deal that the UK Government had negotiated with the European Union. As largely anticipated, and notwithstanding last minute political reassurances from the Presidents of the European Council and the European Commission, Prime...
    January 16, 2019
    Federico Fabbrini
  • After a No-Deal Brexit, How Would Scottish Salmon and Northern-Irish Sheep Reach the EU?
    After a No-Deal Brexit, How Would Scottish Salmon and Northern-Irish Sheep Reach the EU? Chloé Papazian (DCU Brexit Institute) Today, Tuesday 15 January 2019, the House of Commons will hold a historic vote on the proposed withdrawal agreement between the EU and the UK which, if approved by both the UK...
    January 15, 2019
    Chloé Papazian
  • Preparing for Doomsday: Financial Services After a No-Deal Brexit
    Preparing for Doomsday: Financial Services After a No-Deal Brexit Ioannis G. Asimakopoulos (University of Luxembourg) Introduction They say that real life writes the best plots, and that could not be more true than in the case of Brexit. And while the majority of MPs in Westminster do not favour a no deal...
    January 14, 2019
    Ioannis G. Asimakopoulos
  • Article 50 After Brexit: Reforming Withdrawal and Opt-Outs from the EU
    Article 50 After Brexit: Reforming Withdrawal and Opt-Outs from the EU Oliver Garner (European University Institute) On 15thJanuary 2019, the House of Commons is scheduled to finally hold the ‘meaningful vote’ on whether to adopt or reject the UK-EU Withdrawal Agreement. Despite the prevarication of the Prime Minister in delaying the...
    January 9, 2019
    Oliver Garner
  • Event Report: Brexit, the Backstop and the Island of Ireland
    Event Report: Brexit, the Backstop and the Island of Ireland Alessandro De Nicola  (DCU Brexit Institute) On 13 December 2018, the DCU Brexit Institute, in partnership with the Centre for Constitutional Change (CCC) organized an event on “Brexit, the Backstop and the Island of Ireland”, held at the Helix, in Dublin...
    December 19, 2018
    Alessandro De Nicola
  • The Irish Backstop Plan: Alternative Routes or Clearer Guarantees?
    Upcoming Event, 13 December: Brexit, the Backstop and the Island of Ireland The Irish Backstop Plan: Alternative Routes or Clearer Guarantees? Chloé Papazian (DCU Brexit Institute) The political chaos currently prevailing in Westminster has increasingly exposed the risk of a hard Brexit, namely a withdrawal of the UK from the EU in March 2019...
    December 13, 2018
    Chloé Papazian
  • Global Britain and India post-Brexit: From Visas to FinTech
    “Global Britain” and India post-Brexit: From Visas to FinTech Tess Baker and Hannah Koole (Leiden University College The Hague) With Brexit less than four months away, the UK government will soon have to start turning the idea of “Global Britain” from a slogan into reality. According to the Withdrawal Agreement, the text of...
    December 12, 2018
    Tess Baker and Hannah Coole
  • The ECJ Confirms that Article 50 Notification can be Unilaterally Revoked
    Case C-621/18, Wightman v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union: The European Court of Justice confirms that Article 50 notification can be unilaterally revoked Oliver Garner (European University Institute) Introduction On 10 December 2018, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgment in the Wightman case on the revocation of...
    December 11, 2018
    Oliver Garner
  • Defence, Security and Brexit: Ireland's Dilemma
    Defence, Security and Brexit: Ireland’s Dilemma Kenneth McDonagh (Dublin City University) EU security and defence cooperation has always existed in something of a quantum state – we can know where we are or how fast we’re moving but not both at the same time. In recent weeks both Emmanuel Macronand Angela...
    December 10, 2018
    Kenneth McDonagh
  • Can Brexit be Reversed? The Advocate General’s Opinion on the Revocability of Article 50 TEU
    Can Brexit be Reversed? The Advocate General’s Opinion on the Revocability of Article 50 TEU Chloé Brière (Université Libre de Bruxelles) Since the EU referendum on 23 June 2016, the decision of the United Kingdom to withdraw from the European Union has been the source of very important legal questions, closely...
    December 6, 2018
    Chloé Brière
  • The Brexit Deal and Foreign Policy
    The Brexit Deal and Foreign Policy: The UK’s ‘Global Positioning’ between the EU and the US  Cornelia-Adriana Baciu (Dublin City University) The UK’s withdrawal from the €10 billion Galileo programme, and the intention to build its own satellite navigation system compatible with the US Global Positioning System, might signal a British foreign...
    December 5, 2018
    Cornelia-Adriana Baciu
  • The Brexit Deal and the UK-EU Security Relationship
    The Brexit Deal and the UK-EU Security Relationship: Insights from the Withdrawal Agreement and the Political Declaration Helena Farrand Carrapico (Aston University) On the 29th of March 2019, the cooperation mechanisms and instruments of the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice (AFSJ) will cease to apply, in their current format, to the...
    November 29, 2018
    Helena Farrand Carrapico
  • The Brexit Deal and Gibraltar
    The Brexit Deal and Gibraltar Maria Mut Bosque (International University of Catalonia) On the 25th of November 2018, the EU-27 leaders endorsed the draft Brexit withdrawal agreement and approved the political declaration on the future relationship between the EU and the UK. These texts now need to be passed by the...
    November 28, 2018
    Maria Mut Bosque
  • The Art of the Deal: The European Council and Brexit
    The Art of the Deal: the European Council and Brexit Federico Fabbrini (Professor of European Law & Director of DCU Brexit Institute) On Sunday 25 November 2018 the European Council approved the Brexit deal, giving its blessing to the draft international treaty regulating the orderly withdrawal of the UK from the EU...
    November 27, 2018
    Federico Fabbrini
  • The Brexit Deal and Britain's Steep Learning Curve
    The Brexit Deal and Britain’s Steep Learning Curve Stephen Wall (former Permanent Representative of the UK to the EU) I have always thought of a steep learning curve as being both arduous and fast: you need to learn a lot, and quickly. But, in the case of Brexit, both the...
    November 26, 2018
    Stephen Wall
  • The Brexit Deal: The Final Steps to Its Approval
    The Brexit Deal: The Final Steps to Its Approval Ian Cooper (DCU Brexit Institute) This morning, Donald Tusk announced that the EU and the UK have reached an agreement on a 26-page Political Declaration on the framework for a future EU-UK relationship. Together with the 585-page draft Withdrawal Agreement, this is...
    November 22, 2018
    Ian Cooper
  • Event Report: Brexit and Aviation
    Event Report: Brexit and Aviation Gabriel Grigore (Dublin City University) On 15 November 2018, the DCU Brexit Institute, in partnership with Dublin Airport Central organised a half-day conference on Brexit and Aviation, hosted at the Grant Thornton headquarters, in Dublin. After an opening message of welcome from Michael McAteer (Managing Partner,...
    November 22, 2018
    Gabriel Grigore
  • The Brexit Deal Would Resolve the Irish Border Issue – But No Deal is Still a Possibility!
    Upcoming Event, 13 December: Brexit, the Backstop and the Island of Ireland The Brexit Deal Would Resolve the Irish Border Issue – But No Deal is Still a Possibility! John Doyle (Dublin City University) Eileen Connolly (Dublin City University) The draft withdrawal agreement finalised between the European Union and the United Kingdom offers a roadmap...
    November 21, 2018
    John Doyle and Eileen Connolly
  • The Brexit Deal's Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland and the UK's 'Red Lines'
    Upcoming Event, 13 December: Brexit, the Backstop and the Island of Ireland   The Brexit Deal's Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland and the UK’s ‘Red Lines’ Chloé Papazian (DCU Brexit Institute) The road to the publication of the draft withdrawal agreement on Wednesday 14th of November was bumpy. To reach this agreement, both the UK...
    November 20, 2018
    Chloé Papazian
  • The Brexit Deal is the Best the UK Could Have Hoped For
    The Brexit Deal is the Best the UK Could Have Hoped For Angelos Chryssogelos (Harvard University) It is hard not to feel sorry for Theresa May. Her tenure as UK Prime Minister is not expected to last much longer once the House of Commons votes on the Withdrawal Agreement she negotiated...
    November 19, 2018
    Angelos Chryssogelos
  • Dispute Resolution in the Brexit Deal: Is There Salvation Outside the CJEU Church?
    Dispute Resolution in the Brexit Deal: Is There Salvation Outside the CJEU Church? Filippo Fontanelli (Edinburgh Law School) On 14 November 2018, the Commission published the Draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the UK from the EU (the Draft Agreement). The Draft Agreement is a draft of an international agreement between...
    November 16, 2018
    Filippo Fontanelli
  • The Brexit Deal
    The Brexit Deal Federico Fabbrini (Director of the DCU Brexit Institute) Yesterday evening, Wednesday 14 November 2018, the United Kingdom and the European Union reached an agreement on the terms of an orderly withdrawal of the UK from the EU. The Brexit deal, which includes the full text of a withdrawal...
    November 15, 2018
    Federico Fabbrini
  • We Need to Talk About Brexit and Aviation
    Upcoming Event: Brexit and Aviation, November 15. Full details here. Barry McMullin (DCU School of Electronic Engineering) I recently received an invitation from the DCU Brexit Institute to its event to be held today on the subject of Brexit and Aviation. It seems like an important and timely topic, with an excellent line...
    November 15, 2018
    Barry McMullin
  • Brexit and Aviation: The Fate of the Emissions Trading Scheme
    Upcoming Event: Brexit and Aviation, November 15. Full details here. Andrew Murphy (Transport & Environment) In the jumble of issues that Brexit touches on, aviation is one that manages to regularly make headlines. From concerns about British manufacturing jobs in the sector, to allegations that Ireland is threatening access, to the risk posed to...
    November 15, 2018
    Andrew Murphy
  • Brexit and Aviation: Expect Disruptions Even if There Is a Deal
    Upcoming Event: Brexit and Aviation, November 15. Full details here. Cathal Guiomard (Dublin City University) Aviation is overwhelmingly an international business. On it depend key business and political flows - trade in goods and services, face-to-face communications based on crucial business and political travel, as well as everyday tourism and student backpackers....
    November 13, 2018
    Cathal Guiomard
  • If Money Talks, What Does it Say About Brexit?
    If Money Talks, What Does it Say About Brexit? Iain McMenamin (Dublin City University) Politics used to be easy for British business. There was really...
    November 1, 2018
    Iain McMenamin
  • Merkel's Slow Exit, Ireland and Brexit
    German Chancellor Angela Merkel steps down from her party’s leadership: Will her country’s Brexit position soften? Aaron Burnett (Emerging Voices Group, IIEA) Less than two weeks before announcing she would not campaign again to lead Germany’s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Chancellor Merkel appeared before the Bundestag to outline the...
    October 30, 2018
    Aaron Burnett
  • A Better Measure of the Will of the People
    A Better Measure of the Will of the People Peter Emerson (de Borda Institute) In the Brexit referendum of June 2016, a majority of 51.9% of UK voters opted to leave the EU. However, this vote was in effect a vote of ‘no’ to EU membership rather than a positive ‘yes’...
    October 26, 2018
    Peter Emerson
  • Event Report: Brexit and International Development Cooperation
    Event Report: Brexit and International Development Cooperation Daniele Grippo (Dublin City University) On 11 October 2018, The DCU Brexit Institute, in partnership with the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM) organized an event on Brexit and International Development Cooperation, hosted at the European Parliament Information Office, in Dublin. This event featured...
    October 22, 2018
    Daniele Grippo
  • Brexit and the Great Disruption in UK-Irish Relations
    Brexit and the Great Disruption in UK-Irish Relations John O’Brennan (Maynooth University) What we have seen play out in recent weeks in Brussels, Dublin and London is a remarkable ‘reverse asymmetry’ in UK-Irish relations: the historical dynamic of British power over Ireland yielded to the inside-outside asymmetrical logic of the Article...
    October 19, 2018
    John O’Brennan
  • Will a Hard Brexit Lead to a Hard Border? WTO Law and the Backstop
    Will a Hard Brexit Lead to a Hard Border? WTO Law and the Backstop Chloé Papazian (Dublin City University) On 7 December 2017, the EU and the UK Government concluded in a Joint Report that they should agree on a so-called ‘backstop’ solution for the Irish border to prevent a border between...
    October 16, 2018
    Chloé Papazian
  • What are the Likely Implications of Brexit for Africa?
    What are the Likely Implications of Brexit for Africa? Niamh Gaynor (Dublin City University) During a week-long trip to several African countries last month, Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to deliver “a radical expansion of the U.K.’s presence in Africa” post-Brexit. This follows a long and, in many ways, successful relationship...
    October 11, 2018
    Niamh Gaynor
  • After a No-Deal Brexit, Would the UK Remain in the EEA by Default?
    After a No-Deal Brexit, Would the UK Remain in the EEA by Default? Yuliya Kaspiarovich (University of Geneva) and Nicolas Levrat (University of Geneva) Brexit is a journey on uncharted waters. Diplomats, political scientists, economists and legal scholars have neither precedent nor theoretical framework to appraise and analyse the situation. If art. 50 TEU...
    October 8, 2018
    Yuliya Kaspiarovich and Nicolas Levrat
  • Perceptions of Brexit in Canada: Transatlantic Relations and Domestic Politics
    Perceptions of Brexit in Canada: Transatlantic Relations and Domestic Politics Achim Hurrelmann (Carleton University) While there has not been a broad debate about Brexit in the Canadian public sphere, the prospect of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU has generated considerable attention among Canadians. As a former part of the British...
    October 2, 2018
    Achim Hurrelmann
  • Politics, Not Interests, Will Shape the UK-EU Security Relationship
    Politics, Not Interests, Will Shape the UK-EU Security Relationship Benjamin Martill (London School of Economics) Monika Sus (Hertie School of Governance)   The Easy Question? It was once thought that managing the security and defence aspects of Brexit would be easy. The intergovernmental nature of EU security and defence policy has always meant that...
    September 26, 2018
    Benjamin Martill and Monika Sus
  • Some Reflections on the Current UK and EU Positions on Brexit
    Some Reflections on the Current UK and EU Positions on Brexit Chloé Papazian (DCU Brexit Institute) On 20 September 2018, Mr David Lidington, the UK Minister for the Cabinet Office, who is the de facto No 2 in the UK Government’s “chain of command” after Prime Minister Theresa May, visited the DCU...
    September 24, 2018
    Chloé Papazian
  • Scrutinizing Brexit in Europe's Parliaments
    Scrutinizing Brexit in Europe’s Parliaments Katharina Meissner (Institute for European Integration Research, Vienna) In a recent blog post, Ian Cooper discussed the consequences of Brexit on inter-parliamentary relations in the EU. Yet, we know little about the involvement of national parliaments in the actual Brexit talks. In fact, the intensity...
    September 18, 2018
    Katharina Meissner
  • Event Report: Brexit by Design or by Default?
    Event Report: Brexit: By Design or By Default? Assessing the State of the Withdrawal Process Chloé Papazian (DCU Brexit Institute) On 6 September 2018, the Brexit Institute organized the kick-off event of the academic year assessing the state of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union. The event featured an...
    September 13, 2018
    Chloé Papazian
  • History and Brexit
    What does the Eden Plan tell about Brexit? Andreja Pegan (DCU Brexit Institute, Dublin) While negotiations between the UK and the European Union (EU) on the withdrawal, transition and future relations are nearing a close, it is time to think about how the UK will behave towards the EU after Brexit. Given...
    September 11, 2018
    Andreja Pegan
  • The German Bundestag and Brexit
    The German Bundestag and Brexit: Defending Stability or Calling for Change? Frank Wendler (Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main) The political debate on Brexit in Germany highlights two major questions: First, how to define the EU’s stance on the terms of the UK’s withdrawal and its future relationship with Europe; and second, how...
    September 5, 2018
    Frank Wendler
  • The Oireachtas and Brexit
    The Oireachtas and Brexit Gavin Barrett (University College Dublin) The Irish parliament has not traditionally been numbered among the stronger parliaments in Europe in exacting accountability in relation to European affairs, either in terms of its institutional strength or its activity level. However, it has over time undergone periodic reform, in...
    September 3, 2018
    Gavin Barrett
  • The Military Dimension of Brexit: A No-Deal on Defence?
    The Military Dimension of Brexit: A No-Deal on Defence? Lee D. Turpin (Lancaster University) Whilst much discussion of Brexit negotiations has focused on the economic interests at stake for both sides, future UK-EU relations on military matters remain perhaps too often overlooked. As this blog post makes clear, it is important not...
    August 29, 2018
    Lee D. Turpin
  • The Parliamentary Dimension of Brexit
    The Parliamentary Dimension of Brexit Ian Cooper (Dublin City University) The next event at the DCU Brexit Institute will feature numerous parliamentarians from across the EU. This is an opportune moment to consider the parliamentary dimension of Brexit. Brexit has been largely an executive-driven process, in essence a prolonged negotiation between the...
    August 24, 2018
    Ian Cooper
  • Five Reasons the May-Macron Meeting Won’t Change the French Position on Brexit
    Five Reasons the May-Macron Meeting Won’t Change the French Position on Brexit Benjamin Leruth (University of Canberra) Last Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron met with Theresa May at his summer residence in Bormes-Les-Mimosas. These talks were informal (Michel Barnier is and remains Chief Negotiator for the European Union), though it suggests a...
    August 9, 2018
    Benjamin Leruth
  • Mark Carney on No-Deal Brexit
    Mark Carney on No-Deal Brexit: This is Modern Central Banking, but Please Handle with Care   Donato Masciandaro (Department of Economics, Bocconi University and SUERF) On Friday the Governor of the Bank of England (BoE) Mark Carney said that there was as “uncomfortably high” risk of the UK leaving the European Union without...
    August 7, 2018
    Donato Masciandaro
  • Brexit and the Law: A Bird’s Eye Perspective
    Brexit and the Law: A Bird’s Eye Perspective Stephen Coutts (Dublin City University)   Introduction Brexit has become a veritable industry and legal writing is no small part of this massive and recent production. On the legal side there has been detailed and systematic analysis of the actual process of Brexit, the operation of Article...
    August 2, 2018
    Stephen Coutts
  • Second Thoughts on a Second Brexit Referendum
    Second Thoughts on a Second Brexit Referendum Richard Bellamy (University College London/ European University Institute) Theresa May has announced there will be no second Brexit referendum under any circumstances, prompting the wits of social media to recall her similar assurances regarding a snap election and declare that naturally there will now...
    July 27, 2018
    Richard Bellamy
  • Preparedness and Contingency: The Commission Starts to Plan for a No-Deal Brexit
    Preparedness and Contingency: The Commission Starts to Plan for a No-Deal Brexit Salvador Llaudes (Elcano Royal Institute) Chequers was supposed to be a turning point in the Brexit negotiations. It has indeed been so, although not in a completely successful way for the British Government. Since then, the political situation in...
    July 25, 2018
    Salvador Llaudes
  • The White Paper’s Answer to the ‘Brexit Trilemma’ (Part II)
    The White Paper’s Answer to the ‘Brexit Trilemma’ (Part II) Chloé Papazian (European University Institute/ Dublin City University) The previous blog on this issue argued that the UK Government’s White Paper published on 12 July 2018 reflects a fundamental trilemma that the UK faces with respect to its future relationship with the...
    July 23, 2018
    Chloé Papazian
  • The White Paper's Answer to the 'Brexit Trilemma' (Part I)
    The White Paper’s Answer to the ‘Brexit Trilemma’ (Part I) Chloé Papazian (European University Institute/ Dublin City University)   On 12 July 2018, the UK Government issued its long-awaited White Paper setting out its proposals for the future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union. The Government dedicates a large...
    July 19, 2018
    Chloé Papazian
  • The UK’s White Paper is a Serious Offer: Ireland and the EU Should Give a Flexible Response
    The UK’s White Paper is a Serious Offer: Ireland and the EU Should Give a Flexible Response Stephen Wall During the 2016 referendum campaign, the Irish Government vigorously warned of the damage a ‘leave’ vote would do both to its own national interests and to those of the island of Ireland as...
    July 16, 2018
    Stephen Wall
  • The Seven Circles of Brexit
    The Seven Circles of Brexit Ian Cooper (DCU Brexit Institute) Last Friday, it seemed as though Theresa May had secured her full cabinet’s agreement on a common negotiating position that would set the UK on a glidepath towards a soft Brexit. Days later this “Chequers agreement” was thrown into doubt by...
    July 13, 2018
    Ian Cooper
  • The "Known Unknowns" of Brexit
    The “Known Unknowns” of Brexit A Flowchart Chronicle of a Mess Foretold Glyn Morgan (Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino, and Maxwell School, Syracuse University) Teaching a class last year on Brexit to American students, I discovered that—like impatient readers of a “Whodunnit”—they wanted to know how it would all turn out. “Too early...
    July 4, 2018
    Glyn Morgan
  • Brexit, Ireland and the June European Council
    Brexit, Ireland and the June European Council Federico Fabbrini Today and tomorrow, 28 and 29 June 2018, the European Council – the body grouping the heads of state and government of the EU member states, together with the President of the European Commission – was due to have a major meeting...
    June 28, 2018
    Federico Fabbrini
  • Event Report: Brexit, Customs and Trade
    Event Report: Brexit, Customs and Trade Cornelia-Adriana Baciu On 14 June 2018, the DCU Brexit Institute organized an event on “Brexit, Customs and Trade”. This event featured an opening keynote speech by Michael Russell, Scottish Minister for UK Negotiations on Scotland’s Place in Europe, followed by an expert panel discussion and...
    June 22, 2018
    Cornelia-Adriana Baciu
  • Brexit, Customs and Trade
    Brexit, Customs and Trade Edgar L. W. Morgenroth (Dublin City University) Edgar Morgenroth is Professor of Economics at the DCU Business School. He will be speaking in Dublin on 14 June at a public event on “Brexit, Customs and Trade” organized by the DCU Brexit Institute. The event will also feature...
    June 13, 2018
    Edgar Morgenroth
  • SLOVENEXIT? Brexit and the Slovenian Elections
    SLOVENEXIT? Brexit and the Slovenian Elections Andreja Pegan (DCU Brexit Institute) What elements of “Brexit” can we find in the latest elections in Europe held in Slovenia on 3 June 2018? Two issues that came to the fore in Slovenia were migration and healthcare. As was the case for UK voters in...
    June 11, 2018
    Andreja Pegan
  • Norway's EU Lessons -- How Transferable Are They to the UK?
    Norway’s EU lessons – How Transferable Are They to the UK? John Erik Fossum (ARENA, University of Oslo) Hans Petter Graver (Department of Private Law, University of Oslo) The purpose of this short blog entry is to consider the transferability to the UK of some of the lessons from Norway’s EU...
    June 5, 2018
    John Erik Fossum, Hans Petter Graver
  • A Critical Perspective on "Associate EU Citizenship"
    A Critical Perspective on “Associate EU Citizenship”   Martijn van den Brink (Max Planck Institute, Göttingen) Dimitry Kochenov (Faculty of Law, University of Groningen)   Brexit will almost inevitably result in a significant loss of rights, in particular for UK citizens. They will lose their EU citizenship and the EU citizenship acquis will not...
    May 28, 2018
    Martijn van den Brink, Dimitry Kochenov
  • The Implication of a Hard Brexit for the Island of Ireland: Challenges and Possible Solutions
    The Implication of a Hard Brexit for the Island of Ireland: Challenges and Possible Solutions Federico Fabbrini (Dublin City University) Brexit poses major challenges for the relations between the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland. In fact, if the UK were to leave the European Union (EU) without a withdrawal agreement, a transition...
    May 22, 2018
    Federico Fabbrini
  • The Institutional Consequences of a Hard Brexit - Key Findings
    The Institutional Consequences of a Hard Brexit - Key Findings by Federico Fabbrini (Dublin City University) The European Parliament's Committee for Constitutional Affairs (AFCO) recently asked Prof. Federico Fabbrini, Director of the DCU Brexit Institute, to write an in-depth report on the Institutional Consequences of a Hard Brexit. The report has...
    May 17, 2018
    Federico Fabbrini
  • UK-EU Intelligence Information Sharing after Brexit
    UK-EU Intelligence Information Sharing after Brexit Chiara Graziani (University of Genoa) Intelligence information sharing is a crucial issue in the Brexit negotiations. The most recent stance of the UK government on EU-UK security cooperation, of which intelligence information sharing is part, was expressed in the government “Future Partnership Paper”, published in September...
    May 15, 2018
    Chiara Graziani
  • Labour Standards and the Future EU-UK Trade Agreement
    Labour Standards and the Future EU-UK Trade Agreement Mark Bell (Trinity College Dublin) There was relatively little attention paid to labour standards in the Brexit negotiations on the Withdrawal Agreement. Of course, the free movement of workers and the rights of EU citizens has been a core issue in these discussions,...
    May 10, 2018
    Mark Bell
  • Event Report On "Brexit, Medicine and Public Health"
    Event Report on “Brexit, Medicine and Public Health” By Ross Nugent (Dublin City University) On 3 May 2018, the DCU Brexit Institute organized an event on “Brexit, Medicine and Public Health”. This event featured an opening debate between Baroness Suttie (Member of the UK House of Lords, European Union Committee) and Paulo Rangel (Member of the EU...
    May 9, 2018
    Ross Nugent
  • Brexit and the Irish Health System
    Upcoming Event: Brexit, Medicine and Public Health, 3 May 2018 Brexit and the Irish Health System Anthony Staines (Dublin City University) Our nearest and dearest neighbours are engaged in leaving the European Union.  For Ireland, the experience may be less like your neighbours moving, than them moving, taking their house, garden, the...
    May 2, 2018
    Anthony Staines
  • Can UK and EU Environmental Law Stay Aligned After Brexit?
    Can UK and EU Environmental Law Stay Aligned After Brexit? by Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin City University) One of the most significant achievements of the European Union is the range of integrated environmental protection regimes it has developed, in diverse areas including biodiversity, climate change, water quality and air pollution. Britain’s exit...
    April 24, 2018
    Roderic O'Gorman
  • Brexit and the Future of Transatlantic Relations
    Brexit and the Future of Transatlantic Relations   by Joris Larik (Leiden University) Whatever the EU and UK end up deciding in their withdrawal agreement, transitional arrangement or future free trade agreement will be between them. To the rest of the world, it will be what lawyers call res inter alios acta—a...
    April 19, 2018
    Joris Larik
  • Event Report on "Brexit and Financial Services"
    Event Report on "Brexit and Financial Services" 12 April 2018 By Sose Mayilyan and Annelieke Mooij, PhD Students, Dublin City University On 12 April 2018 the DCU Brexit Institute organized an event on Brexit and Financial Services, that featured an opening keynote address by Joaquin Almunia, former European Commissioner, an expert panel discussion, and a closing keynote...
    April 18, 2018
    Sose Mayilyan, Annelieke Mooij
  • Brexit, Open Banking and the FinTech Revolution
    Upcoming Event: Brexit and Financial Services, 12 April 2018. Brexit, Open Banking and the FinTech Revolution Mark Cummins (DCU Business School) Before the UK referendum vote on the 23rd June 2016 and the subsequent uncertainty that has prevailed over Brexit, the European Union had already set in train what is to be a...
    April 11, 2018
    Mark Cummins
  • Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement IV
    Today (April 10) is the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. To mark the occasion, the DCU Brexit Institute blog is publishing pieces by several authors on Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement. This is the fourth and final one. See also: Ben Warwick, Rights in Northern Ireland after Brexit: The Devil is in the Detail; Colin Murray, Policing and Security...
    April 10, 2018
    Mary C. Murphy
  • Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement III
    April 10 is the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. To mark the occasion, the DCU Brexit Institute blog is publishing pieces by several authors on Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement. This is the third. See also: Ben Warwick, Rights in Northern Ireland after Brexit: The Devil is in the Detail; Colin Murray, Policing and Security on the Island of...
    April 9, 2018
    David Phinnemore
  • Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement II
    April 10 is the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. To mark the occasion, the DCU Brexit Institute blog is publishing pieces by several authors on Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement. This is the second. See also: Ben Warwick, Rights in Northern Ireland after Brexit: The Devil is in the Detail; David Phinnemore, Protecting the Good Friday Agreement from...
    April 6, 2018
    Colin Murray
  • Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement I
    April 10 is the 20th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. To mark the occasion, the DCU Brexit Institute blog is publishing pieces by several authors on Brexit and the Good Friday Agreement. This is the first. See also: Colin Murray, Policing and Security on the Island of Ireland Post-Brexit; David Phinnemore, Protecting...
    April 5, 2018
    Ben Warwick
  • Brexit, the OECD and Financial Markets
    Upcoming Event: Brexit and Financial Services, 12 April 2018. Ticking Clocks and Financial Markets: Brexit and the OECD’s 2017 Economic Forecast Michael Breen (Dublin City University) Elliott Doak (Kroll Rating Agency) The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier warns that the clock is ticking. Soon we will learn more about the UK’s future relationship...
    April 4, 2018
    Michael Breen & Elliott Doak
  • On Brexit, the EU’s Demand for a Short Transition is Short-Sighted
    On Brexit, the EU’s Demand for a Short Transition is Short-Sighted by Ian Cooper* (DCU Brexit Institute) Tomorrow marks the exact halfway point in the two-year period between the UK’s triggering of Article 50 and “Brexit day” – 29 March 2019. Time is running short, which raises the question: Is the...
    March 28, 2018
    Ian Cooper
  • Transport and Trade Implications of Brexit
    Transport and Trade Implications of Brexit by Edgar Morgenroth (Dublin City University) While it is generally accepted that Brexit will have a significant impact on UK-EU trade, the precise ways in which trade flows might be impeded is not often discussed. One important area where Brexit is likely to affect goods...
    March 22, 2018
    Edgar Morgenroth
  • The European Council Confronts the Post-Brexit Future
    The European Council Confronts the Post-Brexit Future by Andrew Duff The European Council (22-23 March) has to assess the strategic impact of Brexit on the future of Europe. Although the heads of government have followed the Brexit saga with regret turning to alarm, it is the Commission’s Task Force 50 under...
    March 19, 2018
    Andrew Duff
  • The European Parliament and Brexit (Part II)
    The European Parliament and Brexit (Part II) by Francis Jacobs (formerly European Parliament staff) Brexit has important potential implications for the European Parliament, reducing its size, altering the composition of its political groups and its overall political balance, and posing questions about the ongoing role of both British MEPs and British staff...
    March 15, 2018
    Francis Jacobs
  • The European Parliament and Brexit (Part I)
    The European Parliament and Brexit (Part I) by Francis Jacobs (formerly European Parliament staff) Brexit has important potential implications for the European Parliament, reducing its size, altering the composition of its political groups and its overall political balance, and posing questions about the ongoing role of both British MEPs and British staff...
    March 12, 2018
    Francis Jacobs
  • The Italian Five Star Movement and Brexit Britain: From Love to Friendship
    On February 15, 2018, the DCU Brexit Institute held an event on “Brexit, Climate and Energy Policy” organised in partnership with the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and the Political Studies Association of Ireland. The event was hosted by Arthur Cox. Opening Keynote Speech by Enrico Letta (former Italian Prime Minister...
    March 8, 2018
    Edoardo Bressanelli
  • Event “Brexit, Climate and Energy Policy”
    On February 15, 2018, the DCU Brexit Institute held an event on “Brexit, Climate and Energy Policy” organised in partnership with the Irish Environmental Protection Agency and the Political Studies Association of Ireland. The event was hosted by Arthur Cox. Opening Keynote Speech by Enrico Letta (former Italian Prime Minister...
    February 23, 2018
    Sose Mayilyan*, Annelieke Mooij*
  • What will Brexit mean for climate change?
    Opinion: Brexit is causing deep uncertainty across a range of policy spheres so what will it mean for Europe’s efforts to combat climate change? The scale of the decarbonisation challenge facing the world is nothing short of daunting. According to the UN Environment Emissions Gap Report 2017, climate change policy pledges...
    February 14, 2018
    Diarmuid Torney*
  • Which Data Flow after Brexit? Preliminary insights on the UK Data Protection Bill
    The EU is widely recognized as having one of the strongest data protection regimes in the world. The right of protection of personal data is codified in Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU.  However, as with so much else, this regime has been cast...
    February 9, 2018
    Monica Cappelletti*
  • Inaugural Event "Brexit, Ireland and the Future of Europe"
    On January 25, 2018, the DCU Brexit Institute held its Inaugural event on “Brexit, Ireland and the Future of Europe”, organised in partnership with European Movement Ireland and Dublin City University. The event was opened by a Keynote Address by his Excellency Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland, followed...
    February 1, 2018
    Sose Mayilyan, Annelieke Mooij 
  • Brexit and the British-Irish Relationship
    The British-Irish relationship has been typified by close cooperation since the 1980s, culminating in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. However, Brexit has created challenges and at times the rhetoric between the British and Irish governments has been heated. It was in response to the perceived need to avoid megaphone...
    January 24, 2018
    Etain Tannam*
  • The EU (Withdrawal) Bill and Human Rights in the UK: The State of The Art
    On the political front, Brexit negotiations are proceeding; at the same time, from a strictly legal perspective, the tool with which Brexit will be managed at domestic level, i.e. the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill (EUWB), is making progress in Parliament. On December 20, 2017, it was considered and amended...
    January 11, 2018
    Chiara Graziani*
  • Public Procurement and Brexit: The Risk to Ireland
    Public procurement refers to the purchase of goods, works and services by the public sector (and organizations funded in the main through public monies). In Ireland, as undoubtedly in many other countries, interest in public procurement appears to be inversely related to the fortunes of the economy. In times of...
    December 22, 2017
    Paul Davis*
  • Workshop on Moving on? from Divorce to Future EU - UK Relations
    On 7 December 2017 the DCU Brexit Institute organised, in partnership with Ibec, a workshop on “Moving on? From the Divorce to Future EU – UK Relations”. This was a general survey of the first phase of the Brexit talks, concluding a series of workshops addressing the three key...
    December 14, 2017
    Sose Mayilyan*, Annelieke Mooij*
  • Sufficient Progress? Ireland’s Brexit Conundrum
    Next week, on 14-15 December 2017 the European Council is set to decide whether sufficient progress has been made in the negotiations on the UK withdrawal from the EU to begin a discussion on the terms of the future relations between the UK and the EU. As is well...
    December 6, 2017
    Federico Fabbrini*
  • Workshop on Brexit, the Financial Settlement and the Future of EU Finances
    On November 23, the DCU Brexit Institute organized a workshop on the subject, “Brexit, the Financial Settlement and the Future of EU Finances.” This was the third in a series of workshops addressing the three key issues of the first stage of the Brexit talks.  The previous two workshops were...
    November 30, 2017
    Ian Cooper*
  • The Brexit ‘Divorce Bill’ and the Future of EU Finances: the financial background
    The question of the financial settlement is looming large over the Brexit negotiations. At its December summit, the European Council must decide whether ‘sufficient progress’ has been made on this question (along with citizens’ rights and the Irish border) in order to proceed to the next stage of the...
    November 20, 2017
    Anthony Foley*
  • Brexit and the Harmonisation of Corporate Tax
    On the 4th October 2017, the European Commission referred Ireland to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for failing to collect tax debts from Apple, following a Commission decision deeming the tax reliefs provided amounted to a breach of EU Competition Law. Ireland allowed Apple to pay between 0.05%...
    November 16, 2017
    John Quinn*
  • Brexit and Consumer Protection
    It is difficult to speculate as to the future of the consumer protection acquis in a post-Brexit settlement, at a time in which the EU-UK negotiating teams seem locked in stalemate as to the three core Withdrawal Agreement issues, which require ‘sufficient progress’ so that the next round of...
    November 9, 2017
    Rónán Condon*
  • Workshop on Brexit, the Border and the Internal Market
    The DCU Brexit Institute hosted an event on “Brexit, the Border and the Internal Market” on 26 October 2017, supported by the European Commission Representation in Ireland. The event addressed the issue of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is arguably the most sensitive of the three items...
    November 2, 2017
    Sose Mayilyan*, Annelieke Mooij*
  • Two of a kind? Similarities and differences between Brexit and secession processes
    TThe processes initiated by the UK government to withdraw from the EU and the search for separation from their original states of Catalan and, to a certain extent, Scottish secessionists, possess several similarities. Firstly, both show a similar degree of dissatisfaction with accommodation within multilevel polities or multilevel governance. In...
    October 30, 2017
    Carlos Closa*
  • Brexit and the Irish Border
    The question of the location of the de facto border between Ireland and the UK post Brexit has major significance for the future of peace and economic stability on the island of Ireland. The issue of the border has not yet been resolved, nor is there any indication that there...
    October 25, 2017
    John Doyle* and Eileen Connolly*
  • Brexit and the Future of Europe
    In 2016, some would claim that the European Union was doomed. The UK vote for Brexit was seen as the trigger for others to follow, in particular those where national elections were due to be held and where anti-EU populists were perceived to be gaining ground. Reality proved them wrong.
    October 19, 2017
    Ana Fontoura Gouveia*
  • Workshop on Brexit, Citizens Rights and their Protection
    The DCU Brexit Institute hosted an event on “Brexit, Citizens Rights and their Protection” on 5 October 2017, which was organised jointly with the European Parliament Representation in Dublin. The event addressed one of the three main issues which are currently being negotiated between the United Kingdom and the...
    October 12, 2017
    Sose Mayilyan*
  • Everything you wanted to know about Brexit and citizenship…but were afraid to ask
    Exactly one year ago, Prime Minister Theresa May expatiated on the subject of citizens’ rights in the post-Brexit EU and UK, memorably telling the Conservative Party Annual Conference that “if you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what...
    October 5, 2017
    Ciarán Burke*
  • What are the Best Brexit Podcasts? A Listener’s Guide
    If you want to keep up with Brexit news, but find you have limited reading time, try listening to podcasts. There are already a number of podcasts exclusively devoted to Brexit. The oldest (A Diet of Brussels, with 200+ episodes) has been around since May 8, 2015,...
    September 29, 2017
    Ian Cooper*
  • Opening event – Which Brexit after the UK elections?
    The DCU Brexit Institute celebrated its official opening on September 14. The Opening Event of this new DCU Brexit Institute, the first of its kind in Europe, addressed the question, “Which Brexit after the UK elections?”
    September 20, 2017
    Sose Mayilyan*, Annelieke Mooij*
  • Citizens’ Rights After Brexit: The uncertain future status of EU citizens in the UK – and vice versa
    At the conclusion of the third round of Brexit negotiations on Thursday, 31st August 2017, there was a palpable sense of frustration evident between both sides during the joint press conference, with little indication that any substantive progress has been made in respect of citizens’ rights once the United...
    September 13, 2017
    Brenda Daly*
  • Brexit, Citizenship and the Court of Justice: Explaining the EU’s position
    On 20 July 2017 it became clear that the European Commission and in particular its chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, is becoming frustrated with the United Kingdom and its lack of preparation. In order to make progress, both sides need to know the positions and proposals of the other. The...
    July 22, 2017
    Stephen Coutts*
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