Federico Fabbrini (DCU Brexit Institute) 2021 has been a year of passage for Brexit – the process of the United Kingdom (UK) withdrawal from the European Union (EU) – but the…
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…
Stathis Polyzos (Zayed University) At last, we have white smoke! On 24 December 2020, the EU and the UK agreed upon a set of principles that will govern their cooperation…
Orsolya Farkas (Free University of Bolzano/Bozen) It has been clear since the very beginning that Brexit would fundamentally change the legal status of the approx. 1.2 million UK citizens living…
Jonathan Portes (Kings College London and UK in a Changing Europe) Immigration was a major factor – perhaps the major factor – in the Brexit vote. Over the past two…
Karen Mc Cullagh (University of East Anglia) The current Prime Minister of the UK, Mr Boris Johnson, was infamously elected to “get Brexit done,” and he claimed to have achieved…
Feargal Cochrane (University of Kent) Boris Johnson won last year’s general election, in part, because of his claim to have an ‘oven ready’ Brexit. ‘We’ve just got to put it…
Stathis Polyzos (Zayed University) The Brexit negotiation has seen many deadlines come and go. The process began in March 2017 and now, more than three years later, there seems to…
Simon Sweeney (University of York) Dear Electorate HM Government, under both Theresa May and the current Prime Minister Boris Johnson, has spent four years and six months attempting to secure…
David Collins (City, University of London) The UK struck a new free trade agreement (FTA) with Canada over the weekend, ahead of the 31 December Brexit deadline after which the…