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  • Escape from EU regulations is loss of leverage

    About 100 British officials will arrive in Brussels today to start the mammoth negotiations on the future relationship between the EU and the UK. The two sides are poles apart. The UK wants regulatory detachment from the EU while the EU insists or regulatory alignment.

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  • The outcome of the British elections

    From an academic perspective, we need to revise our textbooks: after Cameron-Clegg (2010-2015), and after a narrow majority for Cameron in 2015, there will be no majority party in the UK nowadays. (Dutch only)

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  • Electronic data exchange: solution for cross-border mobility?

    Towards electronic data exchange within the EU: removing administrative obstacles


    The increasingly developed electronic data exchange within the European Union could remove the administrative hurdles to the exercise of the European freedoms of movement and cross-border mobility, such as the life...

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  • Election analysis: much to do? (part 1)

    Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election cannot distract from the fact that many challenges remain. President Macron’s most pivotal challenge in terms of governance will arrive in June.

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  • End of a journey

    While the world was looking towards Paris, there was another election that was taking place on Germany’s coast. Germany’s Social Democrats lose control of a pivotal state, at the worst possible time.

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  • Sneak attack (part 2)

    Theresa May’s surprise call for the general election may very well change…absolutely nothing. 

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  • Sneak attack (part 1)

    Theresa May’s surprise call for the general election may very well change…absolutely nothing. This is part 1 of a diptych on the latest developments in the UK elections.

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