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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,

24.02.2021 Brexit

Brexit, coordination, leadership and accountability: questions for the EU side too

The elevation of David Frost to Cabinet, and him largely replacing Michael Gove as the UK Government’s coordinator of all things Brexit, understandably generated considerable debate. Jill Rutter penned a piece for UK in a Changing Europe about what we

10.11.2020 Brexit

The Internal Market Bill and Brexiters still unable to face the Brexit Trilemma

On 8 September Brandon Lewis uttered the now famous words: that the UK Government’s Internal Market Bill would “break international law in a very specific and limited way”. That set in train a series of events that even now, two