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Will this do?

Posted on 10th September 2026 by admin

I’ve been spending the week at the UACES conference in Prague, talking about lots of things to do with European Studies. However, one the things that didn’t come up very much was UK-EU relations. It’s almost as if most people … Continue reading →

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Not even a new ‘reset’: The minimalist Burnham agenda on the EU?

Posted on 3rd September 2026 by admin

The arrival of the seventh Prime Minister in Number 10 since the 2016 referendum is an opportunity to try once again to get to grips with British European policy. In practice, this is not a problem of wrestling Lots of … Continue reading →

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The boundless mystery of Assimilated EU Law?

Posted on 30th January 2026 by admin

This piece was originally published on the UK in a Changing Europe site. It’s something of a truism to say that Brexit is a process, not an event, but nowhere is this more evident than in the UK’s continuing difficulties … Continue reading →

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New year, same old UK-EU relations?

Posted on 7th January 2026 by admin

I notice it’s been some six months since my last post here, which reflects on both the new pace of UK-EU relations and the lack of anything useful to add to the debate. I did bestir myself to write about … Continue reading →

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Tracking the UK-EU reset

Posted on 5th June 2025 by admin

Following the EU-UK summit last month, I’ve finally got my ducks in a row on trying to track the substance of what follows. You’ll recall that apart from the Security & Defence Partnership, there was not a single definitive legal … Continue reading →

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We’re gonna need a bigger tracker…

Posted on 22nd May 2025 by admin

One of the joys of listening to Radio 4 is that while having my regular daily walk yesterday I heard a lovely discussion about the 50th anniversary of Jaws, the film that created the summer blockbuster and gave us some … Continue reading →

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Circling the wagons

Posted on 20th February 2025 by admin

Not so much a post as a list of links for you this time, as I’ve been working up from a thread on BlueSky to a graphic to a podcast. The central theme here is how the UK-EU relationship is … Continue reading →

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All quiet on the Protocol front

Posted on 12th December 2024 by admin

This week’s vote on the Consent motion was unremarkable enough that there was hardly any media coverage in the run-up, even in Northern Ireland itself. Positions had been long-known and the result (a simple majority) was a given, despite the … Continue reading →

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Visions, strategies and plans: Deconstructing Labour’s EU policy

Posted on 23rd October 2024 by admin

Maybe it’s some kind of Stockholm Syndrome, but since the Tories left office I have not felt the same urge to write about British European policy. Equally possibly, it might be because I feel a bit broken by another government … Continue reading →

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The sleeping dog of ‘Europe’: UK relations with the EU as a non-issue

Posted on 17th July 2024 by admin

This piece was originally posted as part of the UK Election Analysis project. Do visit for lots of other pieces on all aspects of the 2024 General Election. Given that the past decade of British politics has arguably been shaped … Continue reading →

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