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 Business. DCU National Centre…
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 (Dublin City University), Shane…
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 would lead to an…
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 UK and Latin American…
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 integration treaties, the so-called…
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 and the European Union…
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 cake, which remains intact…
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 Minister Theresa May failed…
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 and the EU Parliaments,…
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 Brexit, and while economic…
