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Statement by President Donald Tusk on the draft guidelines on the framework for the future relationship with the UK
Donald Tusk unveiled Brussels' draft guidelines on Brexit trade talks and insisted the EU "does not want to build a wall", but said that Brexit means "we will be drifting apart". View Article |
Brexit: Parliament to set out its vision for future EU-UK relations
The European Parliament’s political leadership has endorsed a draft resolution laying out a possible framework for future EU-UK relations after Brexit. View Article |
PM speech on the UK's future economic partnership with the European Union
The UK's Prime Minister Theresa May delivered a speech on Britain's future economic partnership with the European Union after British departure from the bloc. View Article |
Speech by Michel Barnier at BusinessEurope Day 2018
The top EU Brexit broker said that "the UK is closing the doors on itself, one by one, and the only possible model that remains is that of a free trade agreement," outlined the options left for an FTA with the UK, and reminded Britain that "the future of our Union is more important than Brexit." View Article |
House of Commons' International Trade Committee: Government has much work to do to avoid cliff edge for non-EU trade
The International Trade Committee published a report on the continuing application of EU trade agreements after Brexit. View Article |
The Telegraph: Brussels takes hard line on free trade deals
The European Commission is preparing to take a hard line over plans to “roll over” 50 EU free trade agreements during the Brexit transition period, in a threat to British exports. View Article |
EU Law Analysis: What “mutual recognition” really entails: analysis of the Prime Minister's Mansion House Brexit policy speech
Oxford Professor Stephen Weatherill assesses May’s aspiration to promote “mutual recognition” as a means to manage the future economic partnership she envisages between the EU and the UK. View Article |
Paul N. Goldschmidt: Completing EMU – Negotiating « Brexit »
Michel Barnier should avoid at all cost that the time pressure to negotiate Brexit leads to concessions that would inhibit the construction of a broad euro-based financial market meant to serve as a springboard for restoring the EU competitiveness in world markets, writes Paul N. Goldschmidt. View Article |
ECMI: Over-the-counter interest rate derivatives: The clock is ticking for the UK and the EU
Over-the-counter derivatives markets, in particular interest rate derivatives, have grown significantly in recent decades and now constitute a systemically important component of financial services activity. View Article |
Financial Times: Euroclear to move holding company from London to Brussels
Euroclear, one of the world’s largest securities depositories, is to move its holding company from Britain, redrawing its corporate structure in preparation for the UK’s departure from the European Union. View Article |
BBC: EU trade deal must include financial services, says Hammond
Chancellor Philip Hammond has told European leaders that it is in the "mutual interest" of both the UK and the EU to include financial services in a free trade agreement. View Article |
The Guardian: Tony Blair: Theresa May has no hope of achieving Brexit aims
Tony Blair has said the EU is duty bound to block Theresa May’s negotiating goals as he made an impassioned call for new leadership to rescue the UK and Europe from economic disaster and the needless sacrifice of peace in Northern Ireland “on the altar of Brexit”. View Article |
The Guardian: EU Brexit adviser deals blow to Theresa May's free-trade proposal
Stefaan de Rynck, the main adviser to the EU’s chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier, stressed that the rules of the single market required far more than her chief proposal – a mutual recognition of standards. View Article |
EPC: Brexit: Half in, half out or right out?
Following the presentation of the draft secession treaty by the Commission on 28 February and the interventions of four former, wannabe or acting UK Prime Ministers, Andrew Duff discusses the prospects of the future relationship between the European Union and the UK. View Article |
Financial Times: Swiss soften line on foreign judges in bid to bolster EU ties
Switzerland is softening its historic opposition to accepting the rule of foreign courts, as it seeks to secure its relationship with the EU in a deal that could set a precedent for Britain’s future ties with the bloc. View Article |
Financial Times: The emerging mismatch of Brexit detail and UK rhetoric
We seem to be coming to a Brexit that meets the narrow scope of the referendum question. The country leaves the EU, but on the softest terms possible — a 52:48 Brexit respecting both sides, pointless in practice but important in form, writes David Allen Green. View Article |
Financial Times: Europe’s strategic choices on Brexit
By treating Brexit as, above all, a legal process, the EU is largely ignoring the political and strategic implications of Britain leaving the EU. That is an intellectual failure that could have dangerous consequences for all sides, writes Gideon Rachman. View Article |
The Federal Trust: Is Brexit worth it, Prime Minister?
The whole of Prime Minister May’s speech is an implicit recognition that Brexit has the real potential to inflict disastrous economic and political damage on the United Kingdom. View Article |
Bank of England: Business investment, cost of capital and uncertainty in the United Kingdom — evidence from firm-level analysis
This paper presents firm-level analysis of factors that have driven business investment in the UK in the recent past, using a new dataset on different cost of capital and uncertainty measures. In general, authors find that macroeconomic fundamentals, cost of capital and uncertainty have all been important drivers of investment. View Article |
La Libre: Belgian exports post-Brexit
La Libre runs a story this week on the economic repercussions of Brexit. According to the latest Deloitte’s study, Belgium will be the fourth country most likely to be affected by Brexit, right after Germany, France, and the Netherlands. View Article |