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The UK Traps Itself in EU Relationship Problems
The Brexit saga keeps going, now reaching the point where the UK government has stated that the Withdrawal Agreement reached in October, which became an ‘oven ready deal’ helping the...
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Episode 34: UK Trade Policy (after Brexit) with David Henig
In this episode, Fredrik Erixon talks to David Henig, the director of the UK Trade Policy Project. They discuss what is the UK trying to accomplish with its trade policy now that it is independent...
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September Song – EU-UK talks approach decision time
We are around halfway through the time allocated for UK-EU future relationship talks. It is four months since the UK finally left the EU, and four months from here take us to the end of September, by...
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Government and Coronavirus
I’m not a coronavirus expert. Trade, economics and politics is my field. I had to look up the spelling of epidemiologist for this article and I’m definitely not one. But just as trade deals are...
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The UK up and running in the WTO: how fast, how far can it go?
After Brexit, our attention to UK trade policy has focused mostly on future FTAs, and in particular trade negotiations between the UK and the EU. But another front has quietly been...
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UK Election 2019 – What it Means for Brexit and Future UK-EU Relations
Introduction The result of the UK General Election means that the UK will leave the EU at the end of January 2020, ending at least four years of uncertainty on that particular question. The wider...
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Episode 13: What type of election campaign is developing in the UK? With Sophia Gaston
Fredrik Erixon talks to Sophia Gaston, the Director of British Foreign Policy Group and a Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and the European Policy Center. They talk about the current...
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Brexit extension shows the UK continues to struggle with the basics of international negotiations
Yet again Brexit has been delayed. The EU has reluctantly granted another extension, this time of three months. It remains uncertain as to what might happen during this time, there may be an election...
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Isolation or Integration: Why the EU Free Trade Agreement the Brexiters want is not deliverable
In the race to be the next UK Prime Minister there is a strong narrative that the country’s future economic relationship with the EU can be simply solved. The EU backtracks on including the Irish...
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UK Brexit direction awaits new Conservative Party leader
A new series of everyone’s favourite UK show, Brexit, has kicked off in dramatic style with the resignation as Conservative Party leader, encouraged by her own party, of Prime Minister Theresa May....