With Keir Starmer and Ursula von der Leyen agreeing regular future summits and joint working by officials to prepare them, the first stage of the UK-EU reset is completed successfully. Despite...

There’s an inevitability every time we consider individual issues in the UK-EU to reflect on the past few years of Brexit. This raking over past problems particularly well remembered in Brussels...

Since Brexit, Free Trade Agreements have been the focus of UK trade policy to the extent of obscuring other activities. Notwithstanding this year’s key achievement, accession to CPTPP, that agenda...

Trade policy is in flux, moving from previous norms of trade liberalisation and relatively strong institutions, to fragmentation and great power competition. There are obvious tensions between US,...

When it comes to Northern Ireland, there is rarely a single story. Complexities of post-Brexit trading arrangements were overlaid on existing political and social ambiguities in the form of a...

Notwithstanding endless discussions and early data, Brexit cannot yet be definitively declared a success or failure. Those who would point to trade deals and independent regulatory policy as signs of...

Introduction Six months after leaving the EU’s Customs Union and Single Market, and five years after the referendum to leave the EU, the UK’s trade policy is fully operational. Yet there is...

By Richard Carden Boris has done Brexit. We are out of the EU. It is long past the time for discussing whether we would be better to Remain or Leave. We are at the start of a new chapter of British...

After a rather strange few days in which the UK government threatened to halt EU trade talks because of conditions either already agreed, such as intensification of talks, or never going to be, a...

The EU and the UK continue to negotiate a free trade agreement. Nonetheless, the possibility of a no-deal Brexit is being seriously considered in London and Brussels. In the case of a no-deal Brexit,...