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Assessing UK membership of the EU

Assessing UK membership of the EU


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Start date: 2016

End date: 2019

Conference videos

- ‘What influence? The UK and Europe’, full-day conference, King’s College London, 14 January 2016, featuring Nigel Lawson, https://youtu.be/Y8Oymx-MswU, ‘UK: Maker or Taker?’ panel discussion featuring Anne McElvoy, John Charmley, Stephen Wall, and Piers Ludlow, https://youtu.be/Y8Oymx-MswU; ‘Does the UK get what it wants from the Single market?’ Allie Renison, Oliver Lewis, Catherine Barnard, and Angus Armstrong, https://youtu.be/1wt3ZjUDgXQ; ‘Is the EU a multiplier or nullifier of UK influence?’ panel discussion featuring Nina Schick, Patrick Minford, Charles Grant, and Richard Whitman, https://youtu.be/a0GDBuf4dRA; ‘Is the UK marginalized in Europe?’ panel featuring Sara Hagemann, Hussein Kassim, and Simon Hix, https://youtu.be/1DiUntJPKvs

- ‘Reporting the Europe: the UK media and the EU’, full-day conference, British Academy, 8 February 2016. Speakers included Mark Mardell, John Peet, Quentin Peel, Adam Boulton, Charles Clarke, John Lloyd, Claus de Vreese, Katrin Auel, Olivier Baisnée, Anton La Guardia, Robert Nisbet, and Matthew Holehouse

- ‘The EU and the UK. External Perspectives on UK Membership of the EU – past, present and future’, King’s College London, 26 April 2016. Speakers included Enrico Letta, José Manuel Barroso, Margaret Macmillan, Brigid Laffan, Markus Jachtenfuchs, Jonathan Fenby, and Jeremy Shapiro

- ‘The EU and the UK: the wrong kind of regulation?’ British Academy, 24 May, 2016. Speakers included Martin Sandbu, John Fingleton, Andrew Lilico, John Peet, Wyn Grant, Nina Schick, and Catherine Barnard

- ‘Working with the EU: Britons and Brussels’, British Academy, 31 May 2016. Speakers included Carole Tongue, Sarah Ludford, David Hannay, Simon Fraser, David Bostock, David Edward, Charles Clarke, Michael Howard, Daniel Hannan, and Andrew Cahn

 

Public lecture series

‘“Brexit means Brexit”, but what does that mean?’, public lecture series, UEA, 2016-17:

- Alan Finlayson, Marina Prentoulis, Chris Hanretty, https://youtu.be/E9qhAHfFaMA, and Iain Dale, https://youtu.be/stI14ujCnIc, all UEA on Brexit and the future of UK politics, 17 November 2016, https://youtu.be/bN92mXKsATw

- ‘Brexit and the future for UK business’, Thomas Sampson, LSE, Jonathan Portes, NIESR, https://youtu.be/qHRWf8G-tdM, and ESRC ‘UK in a Changing Europe’ Senior Fellow, Angus Armstrong, NIESR and ESRC ‘UK in a Changing Europe’ Senior Fellow, https://youtu.be/BPYB58fuv2U, and Luke Morris, ‘Business for Britain’ East of England organizer, 24 November 2016;

- ‘Brexit and your future as consumer, taxpayer and citizen’, Amelia Fletcher, https://youtu.be/sEFhNcd1qps, Andy Jordan, https://youtu.be/sRzNK9o4UQI, Andreas Stephan, https://youtu.be/NRnS9QW2Ka4, and Catherine Waddams, https://youtu.be/Iz2RmIw6qok, all UEA, on UEA, 1 December 2016;

- ‘The Future of the United Kingdom’, John Curtice, University of Strathclyde and Senior Fellow, ‘UK in a Changing Europe’, https://youtu.be/5q9CwPF55jg, Jo Hunt, University of Cardiff and Senior Fellow, ‘UK in a Changing Europe’, https://youtu.be/-6wiujsCOsI, Michael Keating, University of Aberdeen and Senior Fellow, ‘UK in a Changing Europe’, https://youtu.be/pcrMzmMg4SM, and Nikos Skoutaris, Norwich Law School, UEA, https://youtu.be/KQsDiKNTVtU, 19 January 2017

- ‘The UK’s international future’, Thomas Otte, UEA, https://youtu.be/9b6gW-PF2-o; and Alan Finlayson, UEA, https://youtu.be/bN92mXKsATw, 2 February 2017

- ‘The future of migration and immigration and Brits abroad’, Charles Clarke, UEA, https://youtu.be/yfoFSoT4n2U, and Heather Rolfe, NIESR, on https://youtu.be/yBhZDoIu03o, 9 February 2017

- ‘The future of community relations’, Adrian Favell, University of Leeds, https://youtu.be/bg-zXqCEbWY, Sunder Katwala, Director, British Future, https://youtu.be/1VCQ7FVyXCg, and Eric Kaufmann, Birkbeck, University of London on, 16 February 2017, https://youtu.be/d_HFii4aaBE

 

Other events:

- ‘UK and EU: to stay or to leave?’, an event for sixth-formers, 7 March 2016

- UK and EU. Ask the expert’, town hall event, Norwich, 27 January 2016