"Local authorities, voluntary organisations, and asylum seekers themselves are likely to bear much of the burden."
✍️ Ali Ahmadi, Catherine Barnard & Fiona Costello look at the implications of the government’s promise to close all asylum hotels
🔗 https://ow.ly/9KN650YqaNI
"Sovereignty outside the EU does not eliminate interdependence; it reshapes it."
🇨🇭Idris Abdelkhalek explains how the agreements between the EU and Switzerland work in practice and how they affect Swiss businesses and consumers
🔗 https://ukandeu.ac.uk/swiss-eu-relations-in-practice/
"Closing asylum hotels may redistribute costs and pressures rather than reducing them, let alone eliminating them."
✍️ Ali Ahmadi, @cbarnard.bsky.social & @fionacostello.bsky.social look at the implications of the government’s promise to close all asylum hotels
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/closing-asyl...
For the UK, Norway "provides a crucial insight: alignment without representation may be a politically stable arrangement.
But one with mounting costs that are difficult to sustain in an era of geopolitical turbulence."
✍️Nick Sitter & Ulf Sverdrup on Norway & the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/norways-rela...
Plus they explore the impact of the government's commitment to closing all asylum hotels by the end of this Parliament 👉 ukandeu.ac.uk/closing-asyl...
And anaylse why asylum seekers choose to come to the UK and to what extent asylum policy is a factor 👉 ukandeu.ac.uk/what-are-the...
They look at the implications of changes to the appeals process 👉 ukandeu.ac.uk/labours-asyl...
As well as whether the system can actually deliver the proposed changes 👉 ukandeu.ac.uk/can-the-syst...
Today Shabana Mahmood is set to announce a series of hardline reforms to the UK asylum system
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social, @fionacostello.bsky.social & Ali Ahmadi have written a series of blogs unpacking what some of these changes will mean in practice
🔗 Links below
🇨🇭"The relationship between Switzerland and the EU is a very special one. It has not emerged overnight but is the result of more than 50 years of pragmatic cooperation"
✍️Astrid Epiney explains how the agreements that underpin Switzerland’s relationship with the EU work
ukandeu.ac.uk/the-swiss-mo...
📆 Date for your diary 📆
🪖 Join our panel of experts as they discuss European security
💻 Online
🕐 Tues 10 March, 1:00pm GMT
With @anandmenon.bsky.social, @armida.bsky.social, @constelz.bsky.social & @lscazzieri.bsky.social
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ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
"But this alignment journey looks far from plain sailing."
As Labour pursues closer aligment with the EU in an effort to reduce trade barriers, @jreland.bsky.social points out that aligning with EU rules is not as simple as it seems
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/alignment-wi...
🇳🇴 "For the United Kingdom, the Norwegian experience offers multiple sobering lessons."
✍️ Nick Sitter and Ulf Sverdup reflect on the lessons the UK could learn from Norway's relationship with the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/norways-rela...
"You have to decide whether you're willing to give up some of your sovereignty for the benefits of entering. And if you're not, you have to take the costs of being on the outside."
🎙️ @tommctague.bsky.social on the UK's past, present & future relationship with the EU
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/podcasts/its...
Last week, Shabana Mahmood visited Denmark and has made changes to the UK's asylum policy that emulate the stricter Danish system
✍️ In this piece from September, @kristinabsimonsen.bsky.social argues there key pitfalls to copying this approach
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/denmarks-mig...
"Simply making conditions harsher in the hope it will deter arrivals appears, based on the evidence, unlikely to achieve the desired effect."
✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social, @fionacostello.bsky.social & Ali Ahmadi on 'pull factors' & whether stricter asylum policies matter
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/what-are-the...
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🌍 Rapid shifts in global politics have led to an intensified debate about European security
🪖 Join our expert panel as they discuss European security and whether current structures and policies are fit for purpose
📆 Tues 10 March, 1pm GMT
💻 Online
🔗 https://ow.ly/B05y50YmS3O
"The E6 reflects a growing recognition that Europeans, including the British, will need ‘strategic autonomy’ — the ability to act decisively and with purpose"
✍️ Erik Jones explores the impact of the E6 on wider European cooperation
🔗 https://ukandeu.ac.uk/a-europe-capable-of-acting/
"Rubio’s speech confirmed the radical ideological gap that has now opened between the US and Europe. To a worrying extent, the US now represents precisely the things that post-1945 Europe organised to prevent."
✍️ Ruth Deyermond on European security & the role of the US
🔗 https://ow.ly/F6kj50YmS1x
💥 Our latest report on 'UK-EU alignment and divergence: the road ahead' is not one to be missed 💥
For more insight into UK-EU divergence since Brexit and the challenges Labour will face in its ambitions to align more closely with EU, read now 👇
https://ow.ly/uolv50YmSbL
"It shows that – with the notable exceptions of financial services and AI – the UK has struggled to makes use of its “Brexit freedoms” to regulate differently."
✍️ @jreland.bsky.social introduces our new report on the key trends in UK-EU alignment and divergence
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/alignment-wi...
🚨 NEW EVENT 🚨
🌍 Rapid shifts in global politics have led to an intensified debate about European security
🪖 Join our expert panel as they discuss European security and whether current structures and policies are fit for purpose
📆 Tues 10 March, 1pm GMT
💻 Online
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/events/ukice...
"A seemingly unbridgeable gap now exists between the US and Europe on matters of security and politics."
✍️ @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social argues there is an urgent need to develop a European security architecture that does not depend on Washington
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/the-end-of-t...
🗳️ Voters head to the polls in the Gorton and Denton by-election with the Greens, Reform and Labour battling it out 🗳️
But why has the race been so close? What are the dynamics at play? And what is at stake?
Get up to speed with this from @robfordmancs.bsky.social👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/gorton-and-d...
💥 The stage is set for our conference on all things UK-EU alignment and divergence 💥
🇬🇧🇪🇺 It marks the launch of our new report that gagues the scale of UK-EU divergence post-Brexit and outlines the challenges Labour will face in its regulatory agenda
Read in full 👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-e...
"The E6 reflects a growing recognition that Europeans, including the British, will need ‘strategic autonomy’ — the ability to act decisively and with purpose"
✍️ @erik-jones.bsky.social explores how effective the new E6 configuration made could be
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/a-europe-cap...
📆 Tomorrow, voters will go to the polls in the Gorton and Denton by-election 📆
🤔 But who are the voters in this constituency? What are the potential outcomes? And what's at stake?
Find out with this guide from @robfordmancs.bsky.social 👇
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/gorton-and-d...
Read the report in full 👉 ukandeu.ac.uk/reports/uk-e...
"Ironically, Brexit means the UK has to spend more time thinking about EU regulation now than it did as a member state."
✍️ @jreland.bsky.social summarises the key findings of our latest report looking at the state of UK-EU regulatory divergence and alignment
🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/alignment-wi...
15 minutes to go ‼️
You can follow along to the discussion here 👇
💻 app.sli.do/event/fxrDyP...
🇬🇧 Devolved powers 0 @alexwalker.bsky.social
📑 Northern Ireland and the Windsor Framework - @dphinnemore.bsky.social
🇳🇴 Norway's relationship with the EU - Nick Sitter and Ulf Sverdup
🌍 Geopolitics and regulation - @anandmenon.bsky.social
🌹 The second half of the report considres the challenges the Labour govt. will face as it embarks on its agenda of closer regualtory alignment. These include:
🔁 Dynamic alignment - @hhesterm.bsky.social
✋ Voluntary alignment - @jreland.bsky.social
🗳️ Parliamentary scrutiny - @jillongovt.bsky.social
