Britain & EU member-states

Error message

Notice: Trying to get property 'vocabulary_machine_name' of non-object in _cer_topics_taxonomy_term_page_view() (line 104 of /var/www/vhosts/cer_live/site/sites/all/modules/custom/cer_topics/cer_topics.module).
TTIP is no reason to leave the EU

TTIP is no reason to leave the EU

Rem Korteweg
23 May 2016
EurActiv
Opposition to TTIP has become a rallying cry for supporters of Brexit. Its critics are relying on myths about trade agreements in general, and about TTIP and the NHS in particular, writes Rem Korteweg.

What would Brexit mean for Poland?

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
19 May 2016
Prospect
For the last nine years Polish and British experts, officials and politicians have met in Krakow annually to discuss their countries' visions for Europe.

CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of a Brexit for EU Justice and Home Affairs policies

Sophia Besch, Camino Mortera-Martinez
18 May 2016
In the third episode of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) research fellow Camino Mortera-Martinez explains the consequences of a Brexit for EU JHA policies.

Brexit would be a challenge for Berlin

15 May 2016
Financial Times
For the first time in EU history, one country is the clear leader. But Germany’s authority faces many challenges - and the departure of the UK would make it even harder to manage this fissiparous club.
Liam Fox is wrong to suggest that the EU controls the Foreign Office

Liam Fox is wrong to suggest that the EU controls the Foreign Office

14 May 2016
The Spectator
Former Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute last week that the Foreign Office had been reduced to “little more than the EU embassy in Whitehall”.

CER podcast: Five questions on the economic implications of a Brexit for the EU

Sophia Besch, Simon Tilford
13 May 2016
In the second episode of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Simon Tilford explains the economic consequences for the EU.

If you're voting for Brexit because you think British troops will be called up to an EU army, you've been horribly misled

Sophia Besch
11 May 2016
The Independent
Britain's Eurosceptics have spent years frightening people with the idea of an 'EU army' and the subject is once again rearing its head in the referendum campaign.

Preparations for a Brexit III: Views from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Poland, and Portugal

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska, Antoinette Primatarova, Dr Adonis Pegasiou, Dr Martine Huberty, Dr António Raimundo
06 May 2016
LSE blog
If Britain votes to leave the EU it will have to negotiate its exit and a new post-withdrawal relationship with the EU, one that will have to be agreed by the remaining 27 EU member states and the European Parliament.

CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of a Brexit for the EU

Ian Bond, Sophia Besch
04 May 2016
In the first of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Sophia Besch talks to CER's director of foreign policy Ian Bond.

Tok FM: Jaka przyszłość czeka Unię Europejską, jeśli Brytyjczycy zdecydują się ją opuścić? Agata Gostyńska w rozmowie z Jakubem Janiszewskim

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
04 May 2016
Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska talks to Jakub Janiszewski of Tok FM about the future of the European Union, if the British decide to leave.

Seven reasons Brexiteers are wrong to think EU exit negotiations would be easy

Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska
29 April 2016
City A.M
Some eurosceptics think that Brexit negotiations would be a piece of cake. But if Britain decides to leave the EU, it will have no choice but to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.

Brexit would be a victory for xenophobes, we must not turn back the clock

Simon Tilford
29 April 2016
The Telegraph
Britain's EU referendum will be a vote on immigration. The out camp know that voters are aware of the economic and political risks of Brexit, but hope that their resentment of "uncontrolled" immigration from the EU will trump these concerns.

Duncan Smith's free movement fig-leaf

28 April 2016
Prospect
Brexiteers, after a difficult start to the campaign, are trying to push the EU debate onto immigration.
Der "Gottvater" und der Brexit: Joschka Fischer geht auf die Knie

Der "Gottvater" und der Brexit: Joschka Fischer geht auf die Knie

28 April 2016
N-TV
Ex-Außenminister Joschka Fischer zeigt sich ungewohnt demütig. Vielleicht weil es um eine Herzensangelegenheit geht, um Europa. Dem Staatenverbund droht der Brexit. Es steht viel auf dem Spiel.
Es ist, als sei er nie weggewesen: Joschka Fischer, der "Gottvater", wie er auch im Auswärtigen Amt augenzwinkernd genannt wurde. Er ist zu...

Video of CER/DIW Berlin roundtable on 'Britain's role in Europe' with Josckha Fischer and David Lidington

28 April 2016
Josckha Fischer and David Lidington discuss the role of Britain in Europe at a CER/DIW roundtable held in Berlin.

Audio recording of the 'Economists on Brexit' debate

Roger Bootle, Stephanie Flanders, Gerard Lyons, Martin Wolf
22 April 2016
Listen to our lively debate on the motion: 'Leaving the EU would damage Britain's economy'.

What would a post-Brexit EU be like?

21 April 2016
Prospect
If the UK voted to leave the European Union, Britain would certainly change - for better or worse, depending on your point of view. But the rest of the EU would change too.

Highlights of Gordon Brown's speech at the 'Economists on Brexit conference'

Gordon Brown
21 April 2016
In a speech to the CER, Gordon Brown demanded a positive, principled, patriotic case "with all the passion we can bring to bear" to show the future benefits membership of the EU can bring to our children and grandchildren.

Preparations for a Brexit: Views from Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain

Rem Korteweg, Henrik Larsen, Eleonora Poli, Marko Lovec, Laia Mestres
21 April 2016
LSE blog
If Britain votes to leave the EU it will have to negotiate its exit and a new post-withdrawal relationship with the EU, one that will have to be agreed by the remaining 27 EU member-states and the European Parliament.

The EU will play hardball with post-Brexit Britain

John Springford, Simon Tilford
19 April 2016
The Telegraph
Post Brexit Britain will look back ruefully at its past privileges – inside the single market, but outside the eurozone – and wonder what possessed it to give them up.