Delighted to announce our next Post-Brexit Clinic on the Windsor Framework on 5 November Join me, Katy Hayward, Lisa Whitten and Billy Melo Araujo online or in person to discuss latest LucidTalk poll findings, the upcoming democratic consent vote and more www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/post-brexi...
âThe EU never likes to be accused of interfering in the internal affairs of its partners. But it cannot act as a neutral observer in Georgia or Moldova â it is in a battle for influence that it needs to win.â - âŚâŞ@CER_IanBondâŹâŠ mailings.cer.eu/insights/geo...
Georgia and Moldova are EU candidate countries facing elections this month. Both risk coming under increased Russian influence, but for very different reasons. The EU should invest in keeping them in ...
Five years ago today⌠agreement on the terms of the UKâs withdrawal⌠and so the revised Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland www.theguardian.com/politics/201...
Beyond the bonhomie at EU summit, leaders fear PMâs deal could meet same fate as his predecessorâs
'The UK is expected to take the proposals away to consider. UK officials signalled Britain is keen to strengthen co-operation with the EU and has not ruled anything out⌠'Borrell said the talks... had been âexcellentâ... they would have regular meetings every six months" www.ft.com/content/352a...
Foreign ministers urge UK to take part in conflict prevention as London pushes for deeper security co-operation
Welcome as part of 'reset'. Key is whether such senior engagement becomes regularized (e.g. further FAC lunches, although these held with others, or dedicated bilateral EU-UK forum) and foreign policy engagement at lower official level can be formalized. www.ft.com/content/4a63...
Also in this newsletter: the EU countries pushing for more, not less, green policy
âit seems that Georgia faces two possible futures: creeping authoritarianism and alignment with Russia⌠or democracy and a pro-European path if the opposition wins and takes office... [this] oversimplifies what is an altogether more complicated storyâ on.ft.com/4eJgmHE
Few expect a free and fair contest in a country whose ruling party displays pro-Russian and anti-democratic tendencies
Have at last got around to reading @davidheniguk.bsky.socialecipe.org/publications...
Ten key points to negotiating the UK-EU relationshipEurope has been weakened by difficult UK-EU relations at a time of international challenge. Eight years after the Brexit referendum a new UK gover
Composition of UKG Cabinet Committees published yesterday. SoS for Northern Ireland attending Cabinet Committee on Europe. Previously attended only when Protocol/Windsor Framework matters on the agenda. www.gov.uk/government/p...
UK edging towards voluntary regulatory alignment with EU? To note: "this sort of voluntary alignment does not bring any relief from EU regulatory checks. You follow EU rules, with no say over their design, but still donât get market access" - @jreland.bsky.socialukandeu.ac.uk/the-brexit-b...
JoĂŤl Reland unpacks the significant Brexit bill no-one's talking about - the product Regulation and Metrology Bill.