Anand Menon

02.08.2021 Brexit

For now, the EU doesn’t have to care about what Brits think of it

This tweet caught my eye this morning: https://x.com/anandMenon1/status/1422097638904762368 My first reaction: why would the EU even care? My second reaction: even if the EU did care, there is nothing the EU can really do about this anyway. And also then,

21.09.2017 Brexit

A little Theresa May Florence Speech reading list

So Theresa May is going to make her highly awaited speech in Florence tomorrow. There has been plenty of analysis and speculation about what she is and is not going to include. Here – in a blog post I will

06.07.2017 Brexit

The Brexit Bullshit Asymmetry Principle

It has been a pretty normal week in matters Brexit. On Sunday on the BBC’s Marr show, Michael Gove announced he was withdrawing the UK from the London Fishing Convention that dates from 1964. What’s that got to do with

05.04.2011 EU Politics / UK Politics

A response to Denis MacShane’s CER essay: national parliaments are not the route to EU legitimacy

Denis MacShane has written an essay entitled “Europe’s parliament: Reform or perish?”, a paper which he says is a contribution to the debate about the future of the European Parliament started by Andrew Duff, Julian Priestley, and Anand Menon and