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The Ghost at the Feast: The Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly and the Brexit backstop
Jonathan Evershed, University College Cork It is difficult to conclude that the recent Salzburg summit of EU leaders was anything short...
Anthony Costello
Sep 28, 20185 min read


Myth and Narrative in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary
Michael Toomey, Reading University Since the victory of Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party in the 2010 Parliamentary elections, much...
Anthony Costello
Sep 13, 20186 min read


Hard Brexit, No Deal and the Northern Ireland Backstop: What Next for Brexit Negotiations?
Kathryn Simpson Manchester Metropolitan University Brexit (still) means Brexit. Yet, the problem the UK Prime Minister Theresa May faces...
Anthony Costello
Aug 9, 20184 min read


Reality Bites? The Political Economy of May’s evolving Brexit policy
Patrick Holden, University of Plymouth The role of economic forces in shaping the UK’s Brexit policy seems to have been a classic case of...
Anthony Costello
Jul 13, 20185 min read


PESCO Goes Live: June 2018 European Council Decisions on Defence Collaboration
Amelia Hadfield, Director of European Studies at Canterbury Christ Church University and Christopher Logie, research analyst at the...
Anthony Costello
Jul 3, 20187 min read


Divisions within European Union continue to widen when it comes to migration and asylum policy
Aideen Elliott, Maynooth University Despite the fact that the number of people arriving in Europe to look for international protection...
Anthony Costello
Jun 26, 20185 min read


Brexit, Blazing Saddles and Borderlands
Gavin Barrett, University College Dublin Tony Blair once famously compared then British Prime Minister David Cameron’s badly...
Anthony Costello
Jun 19, 20185 min read


The European Union and the Western Balkans: Enlargement or Further Drift?
John O’Brennan, Maynooth University On Tuesday, 12 June, Greece and Macedonia announced a historic compromise in their decades-long...
Anthony Costello
Jun 13, 20188 min read


Brexit and the future of PEACE funding in Northern Ireland
Giada Lagana, NUI Galway For over 20 years, the EU has provided dedicated funding for cross-border programmes which support peace and...

IACES
May 9, 20184 min read


Why can-kicking isn’t going to solve Brexit
Simon Usherwood, University of Surrey & Deputy Director of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe A recognised staple of any political...

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May 8, 20184 min read



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Apr 11, 20180 min read


The Migration (Policy) Crisis hasn’t gone away
By Aideen Elliott, Maynooth University Since the summer of 2015 when the refugee and migration crisis was at its height, the European...

IACES
Feb 19, 20184 min read


Wake Up and Smell the ‘Brexino’?
By Janice Morphet, University College London How far have the events since the beginning of November, or perhaps since Theresa May’s...

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Jan 8, 20184 min read


Ireland and the Marshall Plan: Reflections 70 years On
By Professor Bernadette Whelan, Associate Professor Emeritae, University of Limerick History, both domestic and international, is...

IACES
Nov 8, 20176 min read


Brexit may take centre-stage as the starting gun is fired in the UK general election
By John O’Brennan, Maynooth University The decision by UK Prime Minister Theresa May to ask the House of Commons to vote on whether to...

IACES
Apr 17, 20174 min read


Taoiseach addresses the Brexit challenge
By John O’Brennan, Maynooth University (Originally posted 16 February 2017) A week of domestic political turbulence in Ireland was...

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Apr 16, 20174 min read


How MEPs Can Influence the Brexit Process
By Francis Jacobs, European Parliament (retired) and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, UCD (Originally published 14 April 2017) The...

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Apr 14, 20174 min read


Irish Concerns Acknowledged in European Parliament Resolution on Brexit
By Francis Jacobs, European Parliament (retired) and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, UCD The European Parliament has now adopted its...

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Apr 14, 20174 min read


France and Europe: A Frexit in the making?
By Emmanuelle Schon-Quinlivan, University College Cork (Originally Posted April 4th) Discussion of the the European Union (EU) typically...

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Apr 5, 20174 min read


Fine Gael and Brexit: Putting the national interest first?
By Anthony Costello and Mary C. Murphy, University College Cork As Brexit looms ever closer, it brings with it the most profound...

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Apr 3, 20174 min read
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