EU analysis, cross-posted to Blogactiv
There has been quite some heated reaction to Guy Verhofstadt saying he backs the idea of individual Brits somehow being able to retain EU citizenship after Brexit, for a fee (Guardian story here). This builds on the initial proposal of Luxembourg liberal MEP Charles Goerens. This is a pretty complicated and multi-faceted debate, and I …
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Associate Citizenship, Brexit, EU Citizenship, EU Politics, Guy Verhofstadt, UK EU Referendum |
15/11/2016
Today – even by the standards of the speed of news about Brexit – has been an extraordinary day. Here are the five stand out issues: A leaked memo shows the UK government has no Brexit plan and estimates that 30000 civil servants are going to be needed to make Brexit work – The Guardian. While …
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14/11/2016
Now, 5 months on from the EU referendum, I am growing rather tired of people over-interpreting what the referendum meant, and trying to use something that happened before 23rd June to justify what should happen now. First of all, the referendum question – it was: Should the UK remain a member of the European Union …
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Brexit, EU Politics, Interpretation, Single Market, UK EU Referendum |
My first reaction to the Trump-Farage pictures last night was to be repulsed, not least because the group picture also shows Arron Banks and Raheem Kassam there with him – a nastier threesome in British politics would be harder to find. My second reaction was to think the opulent background, and the smug grins, might …
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Brexit, Donald Trump, EU Politics, Nigel Farage, Theresa May, UK EU Referendum |
05/11/2016
“So what does Brexit mean?” “It means Britain will leave the EU.” “Is that it?” “Essentially yes. The referendum asked the British people whether they wanted to Remain in the EU or Leave the EU. A majority said they wanted to Leave.” (have a look at the ballot paper here) “Why can’t Britain just get …
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01/11/2016
I am presenting at reCampaign in Berlin today about the online communications around the Brexit vote. I do not have the time to completely and coherently write up what I will say, but here are simply some of the links to pieces I found interesting when doing my research for my presentation. Billionaires bought Brexit …
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The opinion piece in The Guardian by Stephen Phillips MP has been praised by many as making a good case for the involvement of the House of Commons in the Brexit process. On that point his piece is solid, but on another issue I think he misses the point. I summed it up in this …
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Brexit, David Allen Green, EU Politics, Sovereignty, Tom King, UK EU Referendum |
What sort of Brexit did the British actually want? That’s actually a damned hard question to answer – because before 23rd June we did not have a concrete Brexit plan that the Brits were voting on. The Leave campaign remained vague and presented no single Brexit variant. The question on the ballot paper gives us no …
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Brexit, EU Politics, Hard Brexit, Soft Brexit, UK EU Referendum |
Owen Jones has a piece in The Guardian about the language of Brexit. We should not use the term “Hard Brexit”, he argues, because actually what a “Hard Brexit” means is a “Chaotic Brexit”. Jones is right to talk about the vocabulary, and he is right that framing matters, and right that Labour has often …
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Brexit, EU Politics, Framing, Hard Brexit, Owen Jones, Soft Brexit, UK EU Referendum |
Jeremy Corbyn’s latest Labour reshuffle has – rather predictably – prompted a storm of critique about the people the leader appointed, and the means he chose to appoint them. Yet this particular cloud has a potential silver lining: the choice of Keir Starmer as Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the EU (aka Shadow Brexit …
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Article 50, Brexit, EU Politics, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer, Labour Party |
Idealistic European with a British passport. Member of the Grüne in Germany. Campaigner, consultant, blogger. Writes about EU, DE, UK and tech. Train traveller.
