All posts tagged "Single Market"

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  Secret story: inside the delivery suite with the reluctant midwives of Brexit

  In-depth interviews with Conservative special advisers and ministers reveal the moments that shaped Britain’s exit from the EU. Matt Ross explores the strategic errors and political calculations that led two

  • Posted March 25, 2021
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  Construction or demolition? Explaining Boris’s new Brexit battle

  UK PM Boris Johnson had been wildly happy about his new EU exit deal; then he introduced a law undermining both it, and the last round of trade negotiations. Speaking

  • Posted October 6, 2020
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  The roots of risk: how economic imbalances are poisoning politics

  Gathering in Paris for the 2019 Global Government Finance Summit, finance department leaders from 10 countries debated the political risks threatening economic growth – and their roots in rising inequality,

  • Posted September 12, 2019
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  Fears over civil service politicisation as Johnson enters fray with EU

  All UK civil service communications staff have been instructed to report “unhelpful narratives” on Brexit in the press and online to the Cabinet Office, according to a leaked document which

  • Posted August 21, 2019
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  Minor regrets, major changes: the EU’s former UK rep on a tumultuous four years

  Until 2017, Jackie Minor was the European Commission’s Head of Representation in the UK. As Brexit negotiations enter a dangerous and painful endgame, she reviews her time at the Commission

  • Posted February 14, 2019
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  Analysis: The UK’s black comedy of errors

  Conventional wisdom holds that the House of Commons must reject Theresa May’s Brexit deal. But current UK politics is defined by miscalculations and fear, not logic and principle; Matt Ross

  • Posted November 19, 2018
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  Sir Philip Lowe, former Director-General of Competition and of Energy, European Commission: Exclusive Interview

  During a four-decade career at the European Commission, Sir Philip Lowe played a key role in developing competition policy and energy markets; and now he’s watching as his own country

  • Posted October 9, 2018
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  Civil servants caught in crossfire as Tories battle over Brexit

  A minister in the UK’s Brexit department has condemned an official economic forecast produced in part by his own civil servants as “an attempt to undermine our exit from the

  • Posted January 30, 2018
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  UK infrastructure chief champions city connections – and condemns Brexit disconnections

  Linking world cities to smaller conurbations through high-speed rail can boost wider economic growth, Lord Adonis told a London audience this month. But the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission

  • Posted November 27, 2017
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  German fiscal policy chief: EU unity outranks tariff-free exports

  The head of Germany’s Fiscal Policy Division has warned that the country will prioritise EU unity and the core principles of the Single Market over its short-term interest in exporting

  • Posted June 25, 2017
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