Brexit

Trade in Europe: How to cope with different rules

As the end of the Brexit transitional period looms, Sir Jonathan Faull – Partner and Chair of European Public Affairs, Brunswick, Brussels – looks at the question of trade in Europe and how countries with different laws trade with each other.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
10 September 2020

The Changed EU Landscape

The pandemic has altered the future of Europe, says Brunswick’s Sir Jonathan Faull.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
06 July 2020

The Weight of the EU

Brunswick’s Sir Jonathan Faull examines the challenges awaiting Ursula von der Leyen.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
18 September 2019

Keeping company with Labour

By Nick Howard
16 September 2019

Themes to Watch: Brexit, North Korea, ISIS

In this issue: - Brexit: With the extension past 29 March confirmed, we look again at the chances of Prime Minister May’s deal passing through the House of Commons. - North Korea: We look at why President Trump and Kim Jong Un’s summit in Hanoi was cut short, plus what we can expect of the negotiations going forward. - ISIS: Victory over what remained of the caliphate in Iraq and Syria has been declared, but is ISIS over?

22 March 2019

Themes to Watch: Venezuela, Brexit, Khashoggi, State of Emergency

Brunswick Geopolitical helps companies understand the complexities and risk in key markets around the world, enabling them to better anticipate, prepare for and react to significant geopolitical events that affect their businesses.

20 February 2019

Call Brunswick: Parliament sets Brexit’s course?

Call Brunswick’s latest panel discussion took in expert views from PwC UK, international law firm Hogan Lovells, the Institute for Government and Brunswick’s public affairs team.

30 January 2019

Themes to Watch January 2019: Davos, US-China, Brexit

Brunswick Geopolitical helps companies understand the complexities and risk in key markets around the world, enabling them to better anticipate, prepare for and react to significant geopolitical events that affect their businesses.

25 January 2019

Brexit is not a preoccupation for Davos

The absence of senior representatives of France, the UK and the USA, three of the leading countries which created and sustained that multilateral, rules-based system of Davos, does not go unnoticed.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
22 January 2019

Call Brunswick: The morning after the night before

An expert panel gathered at Brunswick this morning, 16th January 2019, little more than 12 hours after the Government’s shattering 230-vote defeat over the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration enabling Brexit.

By Kate Fall
16 January 2019

Populism: Troublesome Signs for the EU

Five trends bode ill for stability.

By Anthony Gardner
10 January 2019

Brexit and Brussels

Last week’s meeting of the European Council (summit of presidents and prime ministers) confirmed that the EU does not want to reopen the withdrawal agreement. However, there is said to be willingness to offer clarification or explanation in response to the concerns expressed in the House of Commons.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
17 December 2018

Anti-Money Laundering Reform in Europe

Recent money laundering scandals in Europe have led to calls for tighter controls and an overhaul of Europe’s system for combatting financial crimes.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
13 December 2018

Executive Briefing: Brexit bulletin

The draft withdrawal agreement under which the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019 is now the subject of high political drama in London.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
16 November 2018

The pollster who won the election

Sir John Curtice tells the Brunswick Review why calling elections is a greater challenge than predicting the success of a new product

By Ruan Tremayne
15 October 2018

The breaks

The likely fallout from the current Brexit confusion

By Sir Jonathan Faull
13 September 2018

Brexit: History is about to be written.

As autumn looms and chilly weather returns to northern Europe, Brussels and London face a big question: where do the Brexit negotiations stand as they enter what should be their final few months?

By Sir Jonathan Faull
07 September 2018

Could a Trillion-Dollar Trade War Actually Occur?

On July 6, the United States started imposing a 25 per cent import tariff on $34 billion of Chinese imports on a list of 818 products. On the same day, China retaliated by imposing an identical tariff on an identical value of US imports.

By Anthony Gardner
16 July 2018

Post Chequers Brexit Deal

The British Government has agreed part of its negotiation position with the EU. The “Chequers Agreement” should be taken to be the Government’s position until further notice, notwithstanding the Cabinet changes that followed it.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
11 July 2018

A painful separation

Brexit remains messy at best and its costs unclear

By Pascal Lamy
11 June 2018

European Law in the United Kingdom

This material was first published by Thomson Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AQ, in European Law Review as “European Law in the United Kingdom” (2018) 43 E.L. Rev. 780 and is reproduced by agreement with the publishers.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
20 May 2018

Brexit: is the end game beginning?

After several false starts, political disputes within the British Government and bouts of take it or leave it bravado, some clarity is beginning to emerge.

By Sir Jonathan Faull
13 March 2018

The EU competition commission

Jonathan Faull explains the do's and don'ts of the European competition commission

By Sir Jonathan Faull
20 February 2018