100 days on from the fateful UK referendum, the only thing agreed on is the huge complexity of Brexit. This justifies the wait-and-see approach of the UK government which, by cataloguing the many problems that need to be resolved, is …
Voting to Remain
Originally appeared here for Labour Remain: No one could have ignored the clamouring voices of recent years, calling for what we’ve now termed Brexit, a clunky portmanteau heralding the end of our membership of the European Union. I’m still appalled …
Banking Union Before Euro Adoption: Flak Jacket or Straitjacket?
By John Bluedorn, Anna Ilyina and Plamen Iossifov All European Union members, except Denmark and the United Kingdom, are expected under EU treaties to eventually adopt the euro. Six Central and Eastern EU members – Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, …
Europe is witnessing the establishment of a new regional order
Igor Calzada is Lecturer & Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford (UK) and Ikerbasque (Basque Science Foundation, Spain). He is an expert in research and policy-making projects on city-regional policies, social innovation, territorial development and strategies and governance. …
The key dynamic in Sweden’s general election was the centre-right losing out to the far-right
Katrine Kielos is a columnist for the Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. Sweden held a general election on 14 September, with the Swedish Social Democratic Party emerging as the largest party ahead of incumbent Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s Moderate Party. Katrine Kielos outlines the …
Catalonia could follow Scotland
Ainslie Noble is the author of Memory, Identity and Violence: Comparing Contemporary Catalonia and the Basque Country in France and Spain. She has a PhD from the University of Melbourne. She is a contributing analyst at Wikistrat and has expertise in …
Spain is unlikely to veto an independent Scotland’s EU membership
Dani Cetrà is a Research Fellow at the Scottish Centre on Constitutional Change (SCCC). If Scotland votes to become independent on 18 September then it will seek to become a member state of the European Union. However some commentators have …
Scotland’s Place in Europe
Bartosz Raubo @braubo On the 18th of September, over 4 million of Scotland’s residents will vote to decide whether the country should secede from the United Kingdom to which it has been bound for over three centuries and forge its …
Scotland’s transition to EU membership
Jo Murkens is Associate Professor in Law at the LSE. Dr Murkens was previously a researcher at the Constitution Unit, UCL, where he led the research on the legal, political and economic conditions and consequences of Scottish independence. Jo has …
Why transparency in TTIP talks is a must for all of us!
Monique Goyens, Director General, BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation TTIP not just trade as usual … While BEUC, the umbrella organisation for 40 consumer organisations in 31 countries, does not traditionally focus on trade related issues – not because trade …