UK Politics and Law – Brexit Institute

The July 21 Big Deal: Towards an Ever Closer Union

July 27, 2020

Ingolf Pernice (Humboldt University) The Special European Council of June 17-21 reached an agreement of a historic dimension: four days of negotiation produced a break-through that would have been unthinkable before the Corona…

Post Brexit Challenges for Criminal Justice Co-operation

June 23, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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Valsamis Mitsilegas (QMUL) Developing a partnership on security and criminal justice co-operation is a key priority for both the UK and the EU after Brexit. That much is evident from…

(Transatlantic) Oceans Apart? The State of the Current EU-US & UK-US Trade Negotiations

June 18, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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Elaine Fahey (City, University of London) At the time of writing, it seems apparent that EU-US trade negotiations have broken down in advance of the November US elections. The US…

The Future of EU-UK Relations after the High Level Conference

June 17, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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Ferdinando Nelli Feroci (former Permanent Representative of Italy to the EU) In their virtual meeting of June 15th, the leaders of the EU institutions and the British Prime Minister acknowledged…

Event Report: Brexit, Covid-19 and the Transition Period

June 12, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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On Thursday 11th June 2020 the DCU Brexit Institute hosted a webinar on ‘Brexit, Covid-19 and the Transition Period’. The event was opened by a keynote speech by Stefaan De…

Amid a Global Emergency, No Apparent Urgency to Conclude the Future EU-UK Agreement

June 9, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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Joelle Grogan (Middlesex University) Amidst a global pandemic, the latest rounds of Brexit negotiations on a Future UK-EU Relationship Agreement have had little attention and less scrutiny. There are far…

Recovery Fund: Reasons to be Cheerful

June 7, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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Jonathan Faull (Brunswick Group) There is a well-established tendency in EU circles, in Brussels anyway, to hear voices and see signs suggesting that the fabled Franco-German machine is sputtering into…

The Certainty of No Deal post Brexit?

June 4, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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Alan S. Reid (Sheffield Hallam University) Given that horse racing has recently returned to UK shores, the nation can once again partake in one of its favourite pastimes – taking…

A Road to Nowhere? The UK’s Approach to Implementing the NI Protocol

May 28, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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Clare Rice (Newcastle University Law School) The UK government’s long-awaited command paper, outlining a framework of how it plans to implement the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland of the…

Front-Foot Negotiations: The UK’s Proposed Implementation of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol

May 21, 2020

Giovanni Zaccaroni

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Colin Murray (Newcastle Law School) Throughout the first phase of Brexit negotiations, a regular complaint from Brexit’s most ardent supporters was that the UK Government was being too reactive. The…