Report Date 11 Jun 2018 Global Counsel Brexit dashboard Q2 2018 This is the second quarterly issue of the Global Counsel Brexit dashboard. Two years on from the vote – and with just nine months before the UK leaves the EU... Read more
Research Date 17 May 2018 The UK’s Brexit security gambit The UK and the EU have been staking out their positions on the future security partnership over the past week. This pillar of the Brexit negotiation matters in its own... Read more
Research Date 17 Apr 2018 Whither global Britain and China’s Belt and Road? I have been in China again, this time as president of the Great Britain-China Centre, flying the flag at the UK-China Leadership Forum. This is an annual event at which... Read more
Report Date 16 Mar 2018 Rules of origin in an EU-UK FTA: A ‘hidden hard Brexit’ for food and drink exporters? The imposition of rules of origin on trade between the EU and the UK is often poorly understood as an important factor in managing the impact of a UK exit... Read more
Report Date 12 Mar 2018 Global Counsel Brexit dashboard Q1 2018 This is the first issue of the Global Counsel Brexit dashboard. 21 months on from the vote – and with just 12 months before the UK leaves the EU –... Read more
Research Date 26 Feb 2018 The illusion of managed divergence The Institute for Government’s model of managed divergence for the UK and EU economies has been influential in shaping the UK government’s position. It’s an ingenious attempt to address some... Read more
Research Date 12 Feb 2018 The “cost” of Labour’s nationalisation agenda The nationalisation of several utilities and rail franchises is a key plank of the UK Labour Party’s policy platform. To the dismay of implicated business leaders, it is also relatively... Read more
Report Date 19 Jan 2018 Supporting Europe’s Economies and Citizens - A modern approach to financial services in an EU-UK Trade Agreement In September 2017, Global Counsel and Clifford Chance published with UK Finance a detailed set of proposals for the financial services content of a possible future EU-UK FTA. The proposals... Read more
Report Date 12 Dec 2017 Smooth crossings? The policy tools for a post-Brexit customs border The last few months have seen a growing awareness of the challenge facing both the EU and the UK in adapting their customs processing systems for the reimposition of a... Read more
Report Date 11 Dec 2017 Politics, populism and trust in business: discussions for the boardroom Over Summer 2017, EY and Global Counsel collaborated on a project reviewing the challenges posed for UK boards and managers by political populism. EY have just published some of these... Read more
Research Date 29 Nov 2017 The £60 billion economic impact of Brexit (and counting) One of the most contested issues, before and since the referendum on UK membership of the EU, has been the potential impact of Brexit on the UK economy. The exercise... Read more
Report Date 24 Nov 2017 The EU ETS and Brexit’s first billion euro problem Complex, arcane and underperforming, the EU Emissions Trading Scheme has emerged as Brexit’s unlikely first billion euro problem [1]. Superficially, the challenge is a technical one; how to manage the... Read more
Report Date 30 Oct 2017 What does no deal mean? The baseline for the trade relationship after a no-deal Brexit would be WTO rules. In practice – and depending on the political atmosphere – there would at least be some... Read more
Research Date 20 Oct 2017 Australia’s European opportunity While in Australia at the start of this month, one question that came up repeatedly was how Australia should approach its trade relationship with Europe. Australia is on the verge... Read more
Research Date 19 Oct 2017 Anglo-German relations and the EU question Brexit was conspicuous by its absence in the German election campaign. Migration, Islam and relations with Turkey dominated the only TV debate in early September. Relations with the second largest... Read more
Research Date 6 Oct 2017 Dividing EU-UK farm trade quotas: no friends, just interests News this week that the EU and the UK have agreed on a methodology for dividing current farm trade quotas between them was expected at some point. These ‘TRQs’ are... Read more
Research Date 13 Sep 2017 The Irish border trilemma The Irish border is one of the few Brexit issues for which the positions of the parties to the negotiation are precise and clear. They are also irreconcilable, as things... Read more
Research Date 23 Aug 2017 Can natural capital provide the framework for a ‘green’ Brexit? Putting a monetary value on nature provides a stronger economic case for ambitious environmental policy supported by public and private investment, but it also leaves that value, and the investment... Read more