Category: Europe
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The UK White Paper and the Irish Dimension: The 1998 Agreement, North-South cooperation & avoiding a hard Border
The following set of slides assesses the extent to which the future UK-EU relationship proposed in the UK government’s recent White Paper would deliver on commitments relating to Northern Ireland and Ireland made by the UK and the EU in their Joint Report of December 2017.
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Leaving the Union?
There is an opportunity to change direction and embark on a new constitutional conversation about the island of Ireland says Professor Colin Harvey.
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The Home Office “Statement of Intent” for EU citizens’ settled status in the UK – for what it is worth…
Professor Dagmar Schiek analyses the recent Home Office Statement of Intent on settled status for EU citizens post-Brexit.
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Brexit at the Border: What Brexit looks like for those living beside the Irish border
Following today’s launch of her latest report for the Irish Central Border Area Network, Dr Katy Hayward looks at what Brexit means for those actually living at the border.
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Brexit, Backstop and the Border
Dr Katy Hayward casts an expert eye over the EU’s draft Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland.
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UK Withdrawal and the ‘Backstop’ for Northern Ireland – Key Slides
Dr Katy Hayward and Professor David Phinnemore look at Brexit and the Backstop option for Northern Ireland through the following series of slides.
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The Good Friday Agreement remains high on the Brexit agenda, for now
Following a recent conference at Queen’s University, Jamie Pow summarises some of the main themes arising from the discussions led by some of the world’s leading scholars of the Good Friday Agreement and European politics.
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Irish border backstop: many unanswered questions and considerable economic challenges
The so-called backstop option that is currently on the table is an imperfect solution that needs further work says Dr Billy Melo Araujo and Dr Federico Lupo Pasini.
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Can technology and ‘max fac’ solve the Irish border question?
Dr Katy Hayward looks at some of the options to make the Irish border as invisible and frictionless as possible.
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Brexit, the island of Ireland and the Good Friday Agreement
It would be regrettable if Brexit undermined the efforts made to build constructive relationships across these islands in the last 20 years says Professor Colin Harvey.