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.
European Power
Russia sanctions and magical thinking
Sanctions are clearly not an end in themselves. They are a tool and as such should be responsive to ensure maximum leverage. But this flexibility should not come at the cost of credibility.
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 Netherlands: The EU’s hidden coalition champion
The experts surveyed by ECFR see the Netherlands as the most influential of the affluent smaller member states. Over 50 percent of the respondents rank the Netherlands as the most influential of the seven, and more than 75 percent rank it either first or second.
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 swansong of Germany’s foreign policy president
Gauck’s commitment to bringing the German people into the conversation has helped to widen the space for a challenge to a stronger German role in European and international security
Sound and fury over Germany’s genocide vote
Turkey’s outrage at the German vote on the Armenian genocide is for domestic consumption – Erdoğan is careful not to derail his deal with the EU or become still more isolated
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