After several years of significant macroeconomic and geopolitical events such as the Covid-19 crisis, the war in Ukraine, the return of inflation and rising interest rates, the year 2023 seemed to mark a form of stabilisation in the international environment in the absence of any notable new ev...
Insights One Year On From The Brexit VoteOur Expertise Insights One Year On From The Brexit Vote Share A year has passed since the UK voted to leave the European Union. With the political situation in flux, we still know relatively little about the likely future arrangements between ...
“It has failed to draft a Free Trade Agreement to put to President Trump who wanted Mrs May to agree one soon after the Brexit vote only to be told the EU would not approve before we left!” That, in a nutshell, is the root problem. Hapless Tory administration followed by worse Labou...
experienced its worst election result since the end of apartheid in South Africa. The ANC remained the largest party but lost the parliamentary majority, winning less than 42% of the vote. ANC’s decline is attributed to voter dissatisfaction over unemployment, power cuts, violent crime and crumb...
In an unexpected outcome, UK voters decided that it was time to exit the European Union based on the results of a vote held on 23 June 2016. Studies of the affects and implication of Brexit include a study showing that the vote was met with a negative short-term wealth effect for UK ...
The United Kingdom left the EU in a win for conservative populism, but its conservative Tory party is expected to lose big in upcoming elections, even if the opposition Labour party isn’t planning on reversing Brexit. Even in the heart of conservative populism’s power in Europe, Hunga...
The pandemic and Sino-American tensions almost over-shadowed what would have been the principal trade story of the year: nearly four-and-a-half years after the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, London and Brussels finally completed Brexit. On December 30, 2020—one day prior ...
of the divorce are settled. British Prime Minister Theresa May’s September announcement that the United Kingdom will seek a formal two-yeartransition periodafter Brexit and is willing to pay the EU at least €20 billion through 2021 has not (yet) yielded substantive results. Internal challenges...
(CMA) issued for consultation draft guidance on environmental sustainability agreements on February 28, 2023. The CMA has diverged from the EC’s approach and proposed a broader interpretation of the exemption criteria for climate change agreements, framing these developments as a post-Brexit dividend...
In Europe, Brexit and "Yellow Vest" protests are currently testing the leadership of Britain and France. Theresa May, who struck a deal with Brussels, survived a no confidence vote earlier this month in her own party and may face a second such vote at Westminster, suggesting a bumpy road ...