📆 Date for your diary 📆
🪖 Join our panel of experts as they discuss European security
💻 Online
🕐 Tues 10 March, 1:00pm GMT
With @anandmenon.bsky.social, @armida.bsky.social, @constelz.bsky.social & @lscazzieri.bsky.social
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"But this alignment journey looks far from plain sailing."
As Labour pursues closer aligment with the EU in an effort to reduce trade barriers, @jreland.bsky.social points out that aligning with EU rules is not as simple as it seems
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/alignment-wi...
🇳🇴 "For the United Kingdom, the Norwegian experience offers multiple sobering lessons."
✍️ Nick Sitter and Ulf Sverdup reflect on the lessons the UK could learn from Norway's relationship with the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/norways-rela...
"You have to decide whether you're willing to give up some of your sovereignty for the benefits of entering. And if you're not, you have to take the costs of being on the outside."
🎙️ @tommctague.bsky.social on the UK's past, present & future relationship with the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/podcasts/its...
Last week, Shabana Mahmood visited Denmark and has made changes to the UK's asylum policy that emulate the stricter Danish system
✍️ In this piece from September, @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues there key pitfalls to copying this approach
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
"Simply making conditions harsher in the hope it will deter arrivals appears, based on the evidence, unlikely to achieve the desired effect."
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social, @fionacostello.bsky.social & Ali Ahmadi on 'pull factors' & whether stricter asylum policies matter
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/what-are-the...
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🌍 Rapid shifts in global politics have led to an intensified debate about European security
🪖 Join our expert panel as they discuss European security and whether current structures and policies are fit for purpose
📆 Tues 10 March, 1pm GMT
💻 Online
🔗 https://ow.ly/B05y50YmS3O
"The E6 reflects a growing recognition that Europeans, including the British, will need ‘strategic autonomy’ — the ability to act decisively and with purpose"
✍️ Erik Jones explores the impact of the E6 on wider European cooperation
🔗 https://ukandeu.ac.uk/a-europe-capable-of-acting/
"Rubio’s speech confirmed the radical ideological gap that has now opened between the US and Europe. To a worrying extent, the US now represents precisely the things that post-1945 Europe organised to prevent."
✍️ Ruth Deyermond on European security & the role of the US
🔗 https://ow.ly/F6kj50YmS1x
💥 Our latest report on 'UK-EU alignment and divergence: the road ahead' is not one to be missed 💥
For more insight into UK-EU divergence since Brexit and the challenges Labour will face in its ambitions to align more closely with EU, read now 👇
https://ow.ly/uolv50YmSbL
"It shows that – with the notable exceptions of financial services and AI – the UK has struggled to makes use of its “Brexit freedoms” to regulate differently."
✍️ @jreland.bsky.social introduces our new report on the key trends in UK-EU alignment and divergence
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/alignment-wi...
🚨 NEW EVENT 🚨
🌍 Rapid shifts in global politics have led to an intensified debate about European security
🪖 Join our expert panel as they discuss European security and whether current structures and policies are fit for purpose
📆 Tues 10 March, 1pm GMT
💻 Online
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
"A seemingly unbridgeable gap now exists between the US and Europe on matters of security and politics."
✍️ @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social argues there is an urgent need to develop a European security architecture that does not depend on Washington
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-end-of-t...
🗳️ Voters head to the polls in the Gorton and Denton by-election with the Greens, Reform and Labour battling it out 🗳️
But why has the race been so close? What are the dynamics at play? And what is at stake?
Get up to speed with this from @robfordmancs.bsky.social👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/gorton-and-d...
💥 The stage is set for our conference on all things UK-EU alignment and divergence 💥
🇬🇧🇪🇺 It marks the launch of our new report that gagues the scale of UK-EU divergence post-Brexit and outlines the challenges Labour will face in its regulatory agenda
Read in full 👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-e...
"The E6 reflects a growing recognition that Europeans, including the British, will need ‘strategic autonomy’ — the ability to act decisively and with purpose"
✍️ @erik-jones.bsky.social explores how effective the new E6 configuration made could be
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/a-europe-cap...
📆 Tomorrow, voters will go to the polls in the Gorton and Denton by-election 📆
🤔 But who are the voters in this constituency? What are the potential outcomes? And what's at stake?
Find out with this guide from @robfordmancs.bsky.social 👇
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/gorton-and-d...
Read the report in full 👉 ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-e...
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"Ironically, Brexit means the UK has to spend more time thinking about EU regulation now than it did as a member state."
✍️ @jreland.bsky.social summarises the key findings of our latest report looking at the state of UK-EU regulatory divergence and alignment
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/alignment-wi...
15 minutes to go ‼️
You can follow along to the discussion here 👇
💻 app.sli.do/event/fxrDyP...
🇬🇧 Devolved powers 0 @alexwalker.bsky.social
📑 Northern Ireland and the Windsor Framework - @dphinnemore.bsky.social
🇳🇴 Norway's relationship with the EU - Nick Sitter and Ulf Sverdup
🌍 Geopolitics and regulation - @anandmenon.bsky.social
🌹 The second half of the report considres the challenges the Labour govt. will face as it embarks on its agenda of closer regualtory alignment. These include:
🔁 Dynamic alignment - @hhesterm.bsky.social
✋ Voluntary alignment - @jreland.bsky.social
🗳️ Parliamentary scrutiny - @jillongovt.bsky.social
They look at:
🤖 Tech and AI - Neil Ross
🌆 Financial services - @drsarahhall.bsky.social
💼 Employment law - @cbarnard.bsky.social
🌍 Climate and environment - Michael Nicholson
🛍️ Product regulations - @jreland.bsky.social
💊 Medicines - @markgdayan.bsky.social & @tamarahervey.bsky.social
⚖️ The first half of the report is comprised of thematic chapters which gauge the scale of divergence across a range of sectors
↘️ And ask why in many cases it has fallen short of early promises
🚨 NEW REPORT🚨
🛣️ Our latest report looks at 'UK-EU alignment and divergence: the road ahead'
The report finds that he UK has made very little use of its “Brexit freedoms” to diverge from EU law since 2021 and the Labour govt. is now increasingly pursuing alignment
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-e...
⏰ TODAY ⏰
💻 Don't miss our online panel looking at financial services and the UK-EU relationship 🇬🇧🇪🇺
With @jreland.bsky.social, @drsarahhall.bsky.social, @veron.bsky.social & Elizabeth Howell
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ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
"These new rules won’t just affect new immigrants but will also affect over 2 million immigrants already living in the UK."
✍️ @jamesbowes01.bsky.social analyses the impact of the government's proposed changes to settlement schemes in the UK
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/remigration-...
"Rubio’s speech confirmed the radical ideological gap that has now opened between the US and Europe.
To a worrying extent, the US now represents precisely the things that post-1945 Europe organised to prevent."
✍️ @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social on Rubio's speech at Munich
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-end-of-t...
"Diplomatic, legal and economic uncertainty surrounding the future direction of US-UK trade are intensifying."
Back in September, @drsarahhall.bsky.social reflected on the continuing uncertainties around UK-US trade despite the UK-US Economic Prosperity deal (EPD)
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/trouble-ahea...
"This fragmented and uncertain contest will go to the wire, but one thing is already certain: defeat for Labour would be a disaster for the Starmer government"
🗳️ For everything you need to know about the Gorton and Denton by-election, check out Rob Ford's useful guide 👇
https://ow.ly/RjFm50YiSeY
