Britain & the EU
If we leave the EU, other countries will think we're a bunch of spoilt children. They'll be right
10 June 2016
The Telegraph
Seen from outside the UK, Britain’s Brexit debate has taken on an otherworldly quality. Foreigners struggle to see how the UK could flirt with something so destructive to its own interests.
CER podcast: Debate on - Can Britain join Norway in the EEA?
09 June 2016
Could Britain end up in the EEA? The CER couldn't agree, so we decided to have a debate between our director Charles Grant and senior research fellow John Springford.
Es könnte passieren, gleichsam aus Versehen
09 June 2016
Die Presse
The Remain camp is winning the economic and business cases in the referendum race, but immigration fears and low turnout could tip the scales towards Leave.
How Britain may leave the EU and end up with just as many immigrants
08 June 2016
The Times
Suppose the British decide for Brexit. About 70 per cent of MPs in the House of Commons favour Remain. That doesn’t mean that MPs would ignore the referendum result.
Why leaving the EU really does mean Brexit
08 June 2016
The Telegraph
I keep meeting people who believe a vote to leave the EU won't really mean that we leave. There are at least three reasons why British voters would not be given a chance to change their mind in a second referendum.
ARD: Die Story im Ersten - Albtraum Brexit
06 June 2016
Das Rennen zwischen Befürwortern und Gegnern eines Austritts aus der EU ist denkbar knapp. Doch was kommt nach einem Brexit?
Brexonomics: The five most insidious anti-EU myths debunked
03 June 2016
City A.M.
Eurosceptics peddle a raft of myths about the economic costs of EU membership. These have little, if any, empirical basis, but Brexiteers cling to them doggedly however many times they are refuted by proper academic research.
CER podcast: EU capitals weigh in on the Brexit debate
02 June 2016
Sophia Besch chats to her peers about how their home country's capitals view the Brexit debate in the UK.
Pretiravanje na eni strani, laži na drugi
30 May 2016
Delo (Slovenia)
Britanski volivci se po besedah Charlesa Granta počasi zavedajo, da vseh podrobnosti o EU nikoli ne bodo razumeli.
CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of a Brexit for EU institutions
24 May 2016
In the fourth episode of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Sophia Besch talks to CER research fellow Agata Gostyńska-Jakubowska.
What would Brexit mean for Poland?
19 May 2016
Prospect
For the last nine years Polish and British experts, officials and politicians have met in Krakow annually to discuss their countries' visions for Europe.
CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of a Brexit for EU Justice and Home Affairs policies
18 May 2016
In the third episode of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) research fellow Camino Mortera-Martinez explains the consequences of a Brexit for EU JHA policies.
Brexit would be a challenge for Berlin
15 May 2016
Financial Times
For the first time in EU history, one country is the clear leader. But Germany’s authority faces many challenges - and the departure of the UK would make it even harder to manage this fissiparous club.
Liam Fox is wrong to suggest that the EU controls the Foreign Office
14 May 2016
The Spectator
Former Defence Secretary Dr Liam Fox told an audience at the Royal United Services Institute last week that the Foreign Office had been reduced to “little more than the EU embassy in Whitehall”.
CER podcast: Five questions on the economic implications of a Brexit for the EU
13 May 2016
In the second episode of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Simon Tilford explains the economic consequences for the EU.
Preparations for a Brexit III: Views from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Poland, and Portugal
06 May 2016
LSE blog
If Britain votes to leave the EU it will have to negotiate its exit and a new post-withdrawal relationship with the EU, one that will have to be agreed by the remaining 27 EU member states and the European Parliament.
CER podcast: Five questions on the implications of a Brexit for the EU
04 May 2016
In the first of a series of podcasts on the implications of a Brexit for the EU, Sophia Besch talks to CER's director of foreign policy Ian Bond.
Seven reasons Brexiteers are wrong to think EU exit negotiations would be easy
29 April 2016
City A.M
Some eurosceptics think that Brexit negotiations would be a piece of cake. But if Britain decides to leave the EU, it will have no choice but to invoke Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.
Brexit would be a victory for xenophobes, we must not turn back the clock
29 April 2016
The Telegraph
Britain's EU referendum will be a vote on immigration. The out camp know that voters are aware of the economic and political risks of Brexit, but hope that their resentment of "uncontrolled" immigration from the EU will trump these concerns.
Duncan Smith's free movement fig-leaf
28 April 2016
Prospect
Brexiteers, after a difficult start to the campaign, are trying to push the EU debate onto immigration.