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How long does it take to join the EU? Why the UK in 2026 isn’t Finland in 1992
This post originally appeared on the UK in a Changing Europe website. Andy Burnham’s announcement last month that he wanted to start a dialogue about the UK’s future relationship with the European Union has prompted a wave of contributions … Continue reading
A dialogue on Europe, but with whom?
We are a few weeks past Andy Burnham’s speech about wanting to re-open the question of the UK’s long-term relationship with the EU. Since then, there has been a fair amount of (sometimes hyperventilated) comment and discussion about what this … Continue reading
Party conferences and the EU
A short post this week, partly because I’ve got other things on, more because my cunning plan to summarise where parties are on ‘Europe’ came a bit unstuck. Either they’ve kept quiet on the matter or they’ve offered much talk. … Continue reading
“And there are different options”
Well, it feels like I picked a good time to start trying to blog more. Andy Burnham’s speech to the Labour party conference has fired the gun on something that felt pretty unlikely just a few weeks ago: a debate … Continue reading
Today in motivated reasoning news
It’s party conference time, so everyone’s pushing their ideas into the public domain, hoping they will get picked up by the faithful (and the media) just at the point that policy might get changed. The IPPR have a useful report … Continue reading
Will this do?
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
Not even a new ‘reset’: The minimalist Burnham agenda on the EU?
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
The boundless mystery of Assimilated EU Law?
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
New year, same old UK-EU relations?
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
Tracking the UK-EU reset
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