Blog – Brexit Institute

The UK Command Paper on the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland: Future Relationship à la carte?

July 29, 2021

Oliver Garner (Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, BIICL) Resolution of the Northern Irish border problem was a key objective of the EU-UK Withdrawal Agreement. However, nearly 18 months…

Human Rights and the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol

July 21, 2021

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Brian Gormally (Committee on the Administration of Justice) Violent political conflict always means a bonfire of human rights. Conflict on this island has been no exception. Amidst many atrocities committed…

Searching for the Silver Lining

July 16, 2021

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Patricia Mindus (Uppsala University) Brexit impacted ‘one of the major achievements of EU integration’: the citizenry of the Union. It shrunk in size, changed in composition, with some of its…

Brexit and Northern Ireland: A role for the US?

July 16, 2021

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Mary C. Murphy (University College Cork) Since the early days of the Troubles, the US has maintained a keen interest in Northern Ireland affairs and US soft power arguably played…

The evolution of economic anxiety across the Brexit debate

July 15, 2021

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Francesco Carbonero (Fondazione CRC/University of Turin), Jeremy Davies (East Village Consultants), Ekkehard Ernst (ILO), Sayantan Ghosal (Adam Smith Business School), and Leaza McSorley (University of Sunderland) Shocks and uncertainty are…

The European Parliament to halt Hungary’s state-sponsored discrimination

July 14, 2021

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Renáta Uitz (Central European University) The European Parliament adopted a resolution on July 8, 2021 in response to the Hungarian law that, among others, prohibits the propaganda of homosexuality in…

An Evolutionary Explanation of the Next Generation EU Plan

July 12, 2021

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Carlo Garbarino (Bocconi University) The funds of the Next Generation EU plan (“NGEU”), amounting to EUR 750 billion and financed through a debt issue, are now being made available to…

The Legality of the Protocol

July 9, 2021

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Rory Montgomery (Queen’s University Belfast/ Trinity College Dublin) The Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol remains deeply contentious in Northern Ireland, though fortunately since April opposition to it has not contributed to violence.…

Continuing Reactive and ‘Own Goal’ Unionism: Time for a more Proactive Strategy

July 8, 2021

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Lee McGowan (Queen’s University Belfast) Bonfire season across Northern Ireland is almost upon us. Bonfires are lit every 11th July night to commemorate the victory of William III over his…

Brexit and the Rights of EU Citizenship

July 7, 2021

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Willem Maas (York University) From the earliest days of European integration in the postwar period, free movement – of goods, services, capital and people – has been one of the…