Michael Cox (LSE) Back in early April 2021, I wrote a blog for the Brexit Institute in which I assumed there would be no fundamental change in the West’s policy…
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…
Patrick Bijsmans (Maastricht University) If there is one thing that has become clear during the long years of Brexit negotiations between the EU and the UK, it is that the…
Niall Moran (Middlesex University) On June 15, a UK-Australia trade deal was announced two days short of the first anniversary of the launch of negotiations. While the texts of the…
Tim J Wilson (Northumbria University) When a UK minister announces plans for a ‘world-leading’ UK digitally enabled service, most of us remember Prime Minister Johnson’s ‘world-beating’ track and trace App…
On Thursday 3 June 2021, 17:00 – 18:30, Federico Fabbrini, Professor of European Law at the School of Law & Government of Dublin City University (DCU) and Founding Director of…
Viktor Szép (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) On 23 May, Belarus diverted a Ryanair aircraft passing over its territory flying between Greece and Lithuania in order to arrest journalist Raman Pratasevich.…
Kirsty Hughes (Scottish Centre on European Relations) The Scottish elections resulted in a fifteen seat majority for the Scottish National Party and Scottish Greens – with both parties committed to…
Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen) The results of the Scottish election confirm that Scotland remains divided down the middle on the question of independence. While the Scottish National Party fell…
James Mitchell (University of Edinburgh) Scottish politics manages to be simultaneously stable and turbulent. Last week saw little change after the Holyrood elections. Pro-independence parties gained ground with three more…