Beyond Brexit

Charting a new course

19 December 2019

The View from Brussels: Brexit - next steps and options to reconcile haste with ambition

Brexit now seems inevitable on 31 January 2020 but that is only the beginning of the process of defining a new relationship between the UK and the EU. Serious negotiations...

24 October 2019

The view from Brussels: The key questions raised by the new Brexit deal's Irish backstop replacement

The draft Withdrawal Agreement has finally been amended to replace the previous Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland with a new Protocol taking a rather different approach to securing the objective...

18 October 2019

UK and EU agree revised Brexit deal: What does it mean and what next?

At the EU Summit today, the UK Government and European Commission agreed a revised Brexit deal, reaching agreement on the key outstanding issue of the Irish backstop and revising...

25 September 2019

Supreme Court unanimously holds that extended prorogation of Parliament is unlawful

In R (Miller) v The Prime Minister; Cherry and ors v Advocate General for Scotland [2019] UKSC 41, the Supreme Court found that the Prime Minister's advice to Her...

Brexit: some indirect implications for development and planning

19 September 2019

The View From Brussels: Ideas to fix the Backstop - including enhanced extradition

The position of the EU changed almost imperceptibly over the summer from that which we noted in June 2019 of “the Withdrawal Agreement is not open for renegotiation”...

25 June 2019

AVMS Directive: To implement or not to implement? That is the question

There is no doubt that the likelihood of a “no-deal” Brexit continues to grow. Against this backdrop, the UK Government has issued a Consultation Document setting out...

25 June 2019

The view from Brussels - Can the Backstop be Renegotiated?

Both candidates to be leader of the Conservative Party, and therefore to be UK Prime Minister, have vowed to renegotiate the Withdrawal Agreement and in particular the Protocol on Ireland/Northern...

25 March 2019

Brexit: Unsicherheit im europäischen Derivategeschäft / Uncertainties in the European derivatives business

21 March 2019

Countdown to Brexit - Three Key Votes

With just days to go until Brexit, this week’s events in the UK Parliament may well be crucial in setting the future direction for the UK’s relationship with the EU. ...

15 March 2019

Financial Services and the WTO in the context of Brexit

The EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee of the House of Lords held a public meeting on financial services and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on 13 March 2019. Eric White, a...

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