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The political paralysis route to rejoin the EU

07.02.2020 3 comments

While I am still sceptical as to whether the UK would be ready to rejoin the EU any time soon, and likewise not convinced the EU should even have it back, an idea has been in the back of my mind as to how there could indeed be a route to […]

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Lemons and landing rights – the UK’s relations with the rest of the world, post-Brexit, is the issue that cannot be kicked into the transition period

14.03.2018 4 comments

The UK government’s Brexit strategy at the moment could be summed up as trying to do the minimum possible to get Brexit done. Avoid confronting the inevitable trade offs, wish away the negative economic consequences, and try to push all the difficult decisions forward into what the EU calls the […]

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A transition period with the UK out of the EU is too complicated to agree – so extending Article 50 needs to be debated

04.01.2018 4 comments

Brexit transition. Often mentioned by politicians but seldom understood. In this blog entry I am going to try to make sense of it, and to try to explain why the current effort devoted to this is all probably a waste of time (at least the way the UK is approaching […]

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The terminology and practicalities of Brexit delay

25.10.2017 0 comments

Whatever Theresa May or David Davis might say (as he did this week), the UK is not going to be completely out of the EU with a negotiated agreement by 29th March 2019. Any agreement will require longer than the 18 months until March 2019 to be put into practice, […]