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Timelining Brexit

Posted on 3rd February 2022 by admin

As I seem to find myself regularly explaining, Brexit is a process, not an event. Which is all well and good, but also a bit problematic when you want to work out the appropriate context for that process. At one … Continue reading →

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A new year of Brexiting

Posted on 13th January 2022 by admin

The arrival of 2022 has brought both continuity and change to the UK’s relationship with the EU. The resignation of Lord Frost in December has precipitated a major reorganisation (possibly still on-going) of the government’s management of EU and Brexit … Continue reading →

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More Brexit, part. 648

Posted on 9th December 2021 by admin

As we’ve noted previously in this blog, Brexit is a process, not an event. With the drawing in of the year, we might usefully revisit this notion, since there’s more of the process heading our way. You’ll recall that one … Continue reading →

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High- and low-stress holding models

Posted on 25th November 2021 by admin

A while back I wrote about the UK’s approach to the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) and Trade & Cooperation Agreement (TCA), arguing that this was driven by a lack of strategic intent, resulting in constant efforts to keep things up in … Continue reading →

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WA/TCA Committee Tracker, November 2021

Posted on 18th November 2021 by admin

As part of this blog’s ongoing monitoring of the two treaties, we regularly produce a tracker of meetings of the various bodies that they have set up. These trackers are useful at a number of levels. Firstly, the level of … Continue reading →

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Crisis measures

Posted on 11th November 2021 by admin

As we reach the end of the COP26 hiatus on Brexit the signs are not good. Reports from the talks on the Protocol are that progress isn’t occurring, even with the Commission’s striking opening offer. This is all less than … Continue reading →

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What the Jersey fish tale tells us about the TCA

Posted on 4th November 2021 by admin

Today sees a meeting between British and French ministers to discuss the vexed question of fishing licences for Jersey waters. This event is important for a number of reasons. Firstly, it’s the pathway that got opened up earlier in the … Continue reading →

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Making sense of the UK’s approach to the Protocol

Posted on 21st October 2021 by admin

Just a short post this week, since I already wrote about this in a Twitter thread earlier in the week: The thread was an attempt to make sense of what the UK is doing and whether it might work. As … Continue reading →

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Reworking the Protocol, or just trying to make it work?

Posted on 14th October 2021 by admin

This week has seen the full return of the Ireland/Northern Ireland Protocol to political agendas, after a lull during the UK’s party political conference season. Last night saw the publication of the Commission’s extensive proposals on enabling the implementation of … Continue reading →

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The long way down

Posted on 7th October 2021 by admin

This post originally appear on Encompass Europe. This is a good moment to reflect on one of the many paradoxes of Brexit: for something that has occurred under so much time pressure, there has always still been a summer break. … Continue reading →

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