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How can Father Christmas deliver presents in a no deal Brexit scenario? Baby, it's cold outside (the EU)
19 December 2018
Prospect
In the run up to 25th December, there is one issue that has not received half the attention it deserves: what happens to Father Christmas in December 2019 in the event of a no deal Brexit?
Parliament Live: Exiting the European Union Committee
19 December 2018
Sam Lowe, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform, along with Dr Kirsty Hughes, Catherine Barnard and Henry Newman, gave evidence on the progress of the UK’s negotiations on EU withdrawal.
Tok FM: Drugie referendum w sprawie wyjścia Wielkiej Brytanii z UE możliwe?
18 December 2018
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform spoke about the idea of holding a second referendum in the UK about country’s EU future.
Brexit's impact on services
18 December 2018
E!Sharp
Trade in services has not received enough attention in the Brexit debate. But if Theresa May follows through on plans for the UK to leave the single market, UK services exports to the EU-27 will likely fall, in the case of financial services by more than half, and related jobs and tax revenues will suffer.
Tok FM: Drugie referendum w sprawie wyjścia Wielkiej Brytanii z UE możliwe?
18 December 2018
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform spoke to Tok FM about Brexit and the possibility of a second referendum.
Italy's attitude highlights Europe's reform deficit
17 December 2018
Global Capital
"It is hard to see a political solution in the short term: not much meat can be stripped from the budget without impeding the government's promises", says Luigi Scazzieri, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform in London. "My assessment is that this fight will increase," he says.
TVN 24: Gostyńska-Jakubowska, Dembiński oraz Rokita o brexicie
16 December 2018
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform spoke to TVN 24 Bis about Brexit.
Brussels sprouts: Ian Bond on Brexit and what's next for Europe
14 December 2018
Former Ambassador Ian Bond sits down with Dr Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Jim Townsend to discuss his perspective on Brexit and what the future holds for the transatlantic relationship.
Winning a second Brexit referendum is possible – with Europe’s help
14 December 2018
The Guardian
Not necessarily, says Charles Grant, the well-plugged-in head of the Centre for European Reform. Sweden, Ireland, Denmark, the Netherlands and perhaps Germany may want to help, Grant says, perhaps adding “some tinsel and coloured lights” to various EU loopholes on migration, so that remain can boast of having reformed free movement. But the more “hardcore federalists” in the commission, and in France, “have mixed feelings about our departure. For decades, we’ve been the pebble in their shoe. We’ve been such a bloody pain” that some will be relieved when we’ve gone.
Fact check: Does the EU want a European super-army?
14 December 2018
The Week
The Centre for European Reform said in 2016 that “Britain’s eurosceptics have spent years frightening people with the idea of an EU army”, and that “conspiracy-minded Brexiters insist that, were the UK to stay in the European Union, British troops might soon be faced with conscription into a Brussels-controlled army”.
The Guardian - Politics Weekly podcast: #Brexitshambles
13 December 2018
It was one step forward and two steps back in the Brexit hokey cokey this week. Tuesday’s long-awaited parliamentary vote was cancelled at the 11th hour, as Theresa May realised that a catastrophic defeat could be curtains for her premiership.
MPs raged, and within 24 hours Sir Graham Brady, chair of...
MPs raged, and within 24 hours Sir Graham Brady, chair of...
BBC Radio 4 - The Briefing Room: Brexit - where next?
13 December 2018
Theresa May has been back in Brussels to attend a meeting of EU leaders, a day after surviving a leadership challenge at home. Her mission: to try to extract some form of concession from the other 27 EU member-states that might persuade MPs in Westminster to support the withdrawal agreement the UK has concluded with the EU.
European Parliament elections 2019: The litmus test for the Spitzenkandidaten process
12 December 2018
Reconnect
The forthcoming European Parliament elections in 2019 will probably determine the fate of the Spitzenkandidaten process to select the President of the European Commission.
Review: Plugging In the British: Completing the Circuit
12 December 2018
Foreign Affairs
Brexit has proved surprisingly difficult to implement, not just in economic affairs, where analysts always expected problems, but in many other areas, too.
CER podcast: CER researchers review the year 2018
12 December 2018
Charles Grant, John Springford and Ian Bond review the political themes and events that shaped 2018, and take a look at some of the predictions they made last year.
IFRI: Transatlantic relations in the age of 'America First'
12 December 2018
Sophia Besch, a research fellow at the Centre for European Reform discusses transatlantic relations in the age of 'America First' - how American foreign policy will develop, what to make of European efforts to reach strategic autonomy, and how Germany's defence policy is changing.
Trump's card
12 December 2018
Financial Times
The EU is scrambling to respond to US sanctions on Iran for fear of retaliation. Luigi Scazzieri at the Centre for European Reform says it is time for the bloc to buck up its ideas.
UE: Chaos w Wielkiej Brytanii wymusza plan awaryjny
12 December 2018
Rzeczpospolita
I nie ma pewności, że jakiekolwiek ustępstwa zagwarantują porozumienie - mówi “Rzeczpospolitej” Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, ekspertka londyńskiego Centre for European Reform. Według niej logicznym wnioskiem jest zatem przygotowywanie planu awaryjnego na wypadek braku porozumienia.
British PM Theresa May survives vote of confidence
12 December 2018
Aljazeera
"Some EU capitals are not perfectly happy with some aspects of this deal, including the final shape of the backstop," said Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska, a senior research fellow at the Centre for European Reform.
Theresa May survives leadership challenge, but Brexit plan is still in peril
12 December 2018
The New York Times
John Springford, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, a London-based research institute, said that the size of the vote against her “is an even clearer signal that she won’t be able to get her deal through Parliament, and makes it even more likely that when she puts the deal to the vote she will lose that.”