The UK announced its intention to voluntarily withdraw from the EU, when it triggered Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) –…
The UK announced its intention to voluntarily withdraw from the EU, when it triggered Article 50 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) –…
It wasn’t a short speech – and certainly not a snappy title: “Secure a decisive victory in building a moderately prosperous society in all respects…
The latest stance from the extreme Brexiteer community is that we don’t need any form of trade deal with the European Union. Operating under WTO…
This post is taken from my Padua address at the launch of Radix Italy (see full text). Everywhere in the world we are seeing a…
Sometimes all you can rely on, to understand some sense of the direction events are taking us in, is a sense of history. As such,…
It is almost ten years since the publication of one of my best books (I have to say this myself!). It was called Toward the Setting…
In all its recent wild unpredictability, British politics can often be tediously predictable. And so it was with Theresa May’s speech in Florence. Perhaps not…
What a confused state economists and central bankers are in these days. One can’t envy them their job – always difficult but apparently now veering…
Can the UK exercise some degree of control on EU immigration while still having access to the European Single Market? This is maybe the most…
The year 1992 saw the start of the new-look European Union and the Maastricht treaty which created it. It was also the year of an…
It’s a long game. Any predictions of the eventual effects of Brexit on both Britain and the European Union are likely to be premature. The…