The UK left the EU in early 2020, and then entered into a new set of arrangements under the Trade and Cooperation Agreement at the start of 2021. There have been no shortage of studies on the impacts of moving to these new arrangements. Moreover, since the UK left the EU, it has had to […]
Read moreTrade and Climate Change – Five Points to Consider
With COP-26 starting today and one month to go until the 12th WTO ministerial conference, the trade-climate nexus is under the spotlight yet again. We will host a panel to discuss these questions. You can register here. In the meantime, here is a quick overview of some of the questions by way of background. We […]
➔Ireland: Caught in the Toils Of Brexit
In our post entitled Brexit and the Irish border issue dated 9 February 2018, we wrote: The Issue of Brexit and the Irish border – how to avoid creating some form of border within the island of Ireland – has emerged as one of the most difficult in the entire Brexit negotiation. Three and a […]
➔Reflections on the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement
Agreement at last After more than four years of seemingly interminable negotiation following the United Kingdom’s 2016 referendum decision to leave the European Union, the parties finally concluded a Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) at the very last practicable moment, on Christmas Eve 2020. Ratification was rushed through both Houses of the UK Parliament on […]
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