Brexit and Europe’s new insurgent parties
As the political earthquake caused by the UKIP-orchestrated British leave vote reverberates across the EU, the full force of European anti-establishment parties is hitting home
Britain in Europe
Brexit: The foreign policy implications
The people have spoken. But yesterday’s vote to leave the European Union is only the beginning of what will be a long and uncertain process of divorce.
Lessons from the Norway-EU relationship
Whichever way the British vote in June, they should not believe that a vote to leave is a vote to become another Norway in Europe
British MP Jo Cox’s murder brought civility to the Brexit debate. It won’t last.
We want to believe there was some reason, even a bad one, for a tragedy like this. This is normal, but it doesn’t make good public policy. Some things are just senseless.
Remembering Jo Cox
Jo Cox is a symbol of the very best of British and European values, and her murder a tragic reminder of the consequences of irrationality and hate
The referendum rollercoaster
The uncertainty is stress-testing the British elite and the rest of the world, which is looking on helplessly at the results
The ‘European Pivot’
A speech held by Tristram Hunt MP at the ECFR event The UK’s foreign policy post-referendum: One hundred years of solitude? on 8 June 2016
Meet the Europeans in Britain’s Brexit heartland
European migrants are supporting the social fabric of places such as Thurrock and keeping Britain’s creaking public services on life support
Britain’s sovereignty chestnut
Die-hard sovereigntists may wish to preserve the Englishman’s historic right to bathe in his own sewage, or be treated in A&E by an exhausted doctor – most of us will be glad that EU membership from time to time pushes our own authorities to do the right thing
Europe or the open sea? Brexit and European security
By voting to leave the EU the UK may lose its voice at a time when the union aims to play a strategically greater role in European defence, security and foreign policy