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The Procurement of EU Covid-19 Medical Supplies: Rights and Wrongs of the Joint Procurement Agreements versus Advanced Purchase Agreements

April 14, 2021

Emma McEvoy and Delia Ferri (Maynooth University) Last month we witnessed the escalation of the EU-UK row over vaccine supplies, namely regarding the distribution of the AstraZeneca vaccines, which was…

Event Report: An Economy that Works for the People: Beyond Brexit and Covid-19

April 13, 2021

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Matteo Bottero (DCU Brexit Institute) On 12th April 2021, the DCU Brexit Institute hosted a day-long conference entitled “An Economy that Works for the People: Beyond Brexit and Covid-19”. The full…

Border Carbon Adjustments – The EU Parliament Resolution

April 12, 2021

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Goran Dominioni (Dublin City University) The European Parliament has adopted a resolution for a carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) to guide the Commission in formulating a proposal in the second…

The Northern Ireland Protocol and the Future of the Union

April 9, 2021

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Eileen Connolly and John Doyle (Dublin City University) In our recent working paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU we argued that the deep divisions in…

“No Banquo at this Feast” NATO Ministerial Meeting, Brussels, 23rd – 24th March 2021

April 7, 2021

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Michael Cox (London School of Economics) The recent NATO summit held in Brussels held few surprises. But perhaps there have been too many of those over the last four years…

Bulgaria’s 4 April Parliamentary Election: The End of Borissov’s Rule?

April 7, 2021

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John O’ Brennan (Maynooth University) Sunday’s parliamentary election in Bulgaria took place against a backdrop of a renewed Covid crisis, the ‘third wave’ of which has produced very high levels…

A Year in the Life: Lessons on the Resilience of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol

March 31, 2021

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John Cotter (Keele University) About a year ago, I wrote a blog for the DCU Brexit Institute for the occasion of the twenty-second anniversary of the signing of the Good…

“Don’t Mention the Poll”: The Good Friday Agreement and À la Carte Consent

March 31, 2021

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Donnacha Ó Beacháin (Dublin City University) The Good Friday Agreement (GFA) anticipated the need for constitutional change and one of its many achievements is that it gave us an agreed…

Brexit, Market Adjustment and the Irish Sea

March 29, 2021

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Gerard McCann (St Mary’s University College) John Maynard Keynes observantly noted of European realignment coming out of the Great War, that: “When the final result is expected to be a…

The UK-EU Vaccine Spat is an Intra-EU Tussle not an Act of Brexit-Induced Spite

March 26, 2021

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Andrew Glencross (Aston University) The rollout of a variety of effective vaccines against COVID-19 is an incredible scientific success story, but one that is currently overshadowed by an unseemly EU-UK…