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Fabio Petito argues that the UK is failing to realise the importance of regional blocks and has few realistic responses to the current crisis of the liberal international order.
'Get Brexit done is the biggest delusion of all' - Michael Heseltine launches scathing attack on Boris Johnson.
This tweet outlines the UK's involvement in, and extensive influence on, the evolution and direction of the European Union (and its precursors).
Liberal Democrat and Labour MEPs have taken up committee jobs in ‘huge vote of confidence’.
'We're going to be depriving ourselves of a lot of information that we will be spending the next few years trying to find out by other means'
The first concerns the United Kingdom. Aside from a few hard-liners, Brexit -- the decision to leave the common market made by Boris Johnson's administration -- has become a disaster.
This reshuffle will make little difference: the country is going nowhere as the PM leads us further down an economic dead end.
The lucrative UK/US trade deal is dead - so will it Liz Truss now press ahead with ripping up parts of the Northern Ireland Protocol?
A body representing the aerospace industry says it is "disappointed" that the government has not taken an "ambitious approach".
PM urged to recognise pursuit of no-deal Brexit would be regarded as serious error by US.
There cannot be a question mark left in the minds of British politicians - or any others for that matter - as to where the allegiances of the current US President lie when it comes to post-Brexit Irish-British affairs.
We knew leaving the EU would weaken us. Now we can see it will limit the ability of the government to rein in big tech.
British envoys may be deploying a combination of indignation and stubbornness.
The Prime Minister and French President Emmanuel Macron can't stand each other, but the real damage is from Brexit.
In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.
'Before Brexit, the UK pursued its sanctions policy through multilateral fora, primarily the UN and the EU. The EU, in particular, offered a means of pursuing sanctions when the UN Security Council was deadlocked, or if UN sanctions were deemed insufficiently robust.'
Chief among these is Britain, who in leaving the European Union, has placed a disproportionate emphasis on the potential benefits arising from a new trade deal with the US.
Diplomats suggest Britain’s leverage on world stage will be weaker after EU departure. / Brexit is already leading to a “palpable decline” in British influence at the UN, and that influence would be in freefall but for the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7 % of gross national income on overseas aid, a study has found.
Now Brits face a chaos and internal division of their own making, alongside potential isolation and years of economic hardship -- particularly if the UK crashes out with no deal on April 12. / Across much of Britain's former Asian colonies, many are greeting the UK's impending departure from the European Union with a mixture of bafflement, apathy, amusement -- and a touch of schadenfreude.
UK scientists had been shut out of the multibillion-euro scheme amid drawn-out Brexit negotiations.
Leo Varadkar says UK has struggled to accept its is less important than it once was.
When the bell tolls at eleven o’clock tonight, ringing out Britain’s membership of the EU, an entire phase of British history will come to a close. For nearly half a century – from 1973 to 2020 – perhaps the single most important fact about British history was its membership of the European Union (or ‘Community’, until 1993).
Britain’s decision to leave the European Union is eroding its own influence in the world without hurting the bloc’s ability to wield global power, according to the EU’s top diplomat.