Explaining the project

'Living with the Neighbours'Link opens in a new window project examines EU-UK relations and the UK post-Brexit bilateral relations with European states.

Conducted as part of Hussein Kassim's Senior Fellowship under the ESRC's UK in a Changing Europe initiative (UKICE), 'Living with the Neighbours'Link opens in a new window builds on two earlier projects, ‘Negotiating Brexit: EU institutions, national governments, and the UK’Link opens in a new window, and ‘Negotiating the FutureLink opens in a new window’, which examined the negotiations that led respectively to the Withdrawal Act and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. It also assesses the impact of Brexit on UK regulation. The events conducted as part of my first Fellowship, ‘Assessing UK membership of the EULink opens in a new window’, explored key aspects of UK-EU relations.

As part of those projects, I have organised multiple events, published commentary and analysis, and co-hosted with Cleo Davies four series of podcasts, including 'Books on Brexit', ‘Good Neighbours? The UK and Europe after Brexit’, After Brexit: What has changed?’ and ‘Negotiating Brexit: views from the Member States’.

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Project team

Professor Hussein KassimLink opens in a new window, Principal Investigator

Dr Kirsty WarnerLink opens in a new window, Assistant Professor (from Sept 2024)

Dr Cleo Davies, Senior Research Fellow (until Aug 2024)

Dr Pippa Lacey, Administrative Assistant

Funding: UK Economic and Social Research Council (under 'UK in a Changing Europe' programme)

Start date: 2022 

End date: 2025

Podcasts

'Books on Brexit' with guests including Michel Barnier: 'My Secret Brexit Diary: A Glorious IllusionLink opens in a new window; Philip Cunliffe: 'Taking Control: Sovereignty and Democracy After Brexit'Link opens in a new window, Stefaan De Rynck: 'Inside the Deal: How the EU got Brexit done'Link opens in a new window, Peter Foster: 'What went wrong with Brexit'Link opens in a new window, Brigid Laffan: 'The EU's Response to Brexit: United and Effective'Link opens in a new window, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed: 'A Troubled Consitutional Future: Northern Ireland after Brexit'Link opens in a new window and Robert Tombs: 'This Sovereign Isle: Britain In and Out of Europe'Link opens in a new window.

‘Good Neighbours? The UK and Europe after Brexit’Link opens in a new window with guests including Stefaan De Rynck and Dan Ferrie: The view from BrusselsLink opens in a new window; Katy Hayward and David Phinnemore: The Irish borderLink opens in a new window; Georg Riekeles and Sieglinde Gstöhl: The UK-EU trade agreementLink opens in a new window; Stefanie Walter and Christian Frommelt: The Swiss model and beyondLink opens in a new window; John Erik Fossum, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Christopher Lord: Norway, the EU and BrexitLink opens in a new window; Richard Whitman and Baroness Neville-Jones: The UK's foreign policy after BrexitLink opens in a new window; Michael Kenny, Leslie Vinjumari and Srdjan Vucetic: Whatever happened to the Anglosphere?Link opens in a new window

'After Brexit: What has changed?Link opens in a new window’ with guests including Amelia Fletcher, Albert Sánchez-Graells and Andreas Stephan: Competition Policy, Consumer Protection & Public ProcurementLink opens in a new window; Pierre Bocquillon, Charlotte Burns, and Brendan Moore: Environment, Climate Change, Energy & RenewablesLink opens in a new window; Katy Hayward: The Irish BorderLink opens in a new window; Christopher Huggins: FisheriesLink opens in a new window; Amelia Fletcher and Karen McCullagh: Digital RegulationLink opens in a new window; Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers: Immigration & AsylumLink opens in a new window; Tola Amodu and Andrew Fearne: Food SecurityLink opens in a new window; Sarah Hall and Scott James: Financial ServicesLink opens in a new window; Sarah Hall, Martin Heneghan and Hussein Kassim: TransportLink opens in a new window; Michael Harker and Kathryn Wright: Regulatory ArchitectureLink opens in a new window; Sabine Jacques: Intellectual PropertyLink opens in a new window; David Bailey: TradeLink opens in a new window

‘Negotiating Brexit: views from the Member States’ with guests including Eva Heidbreder & Nicolai Von Ordonza: GermanyLink opens in a new window; Christian Lequesne & Pauline Schnapper: FranceLink opens in a new window; Salvador Llaudes & Ignacio Molina: SpainLink opens in a new window; Brigid Laffan & Mary C. MurphyLink opens in a new window; Catherine de Vries & Rem Korteweg: The NetherlandsLink opens in a new window; Przemysław Biskup & Natasza Styczyńska: PolandLink opens in a new window; Piret Kuusik & Ramūnas Vilpišauskas: Estonia & LithuaniaLink opens in a new window; Rebecca Adler-Nissen & Sara Hagemann: DenmarkLink opens in a new window

News and events

Conferences

Good neighbours? The UK and the EU after BrexitLink opens in a new window, 26 October 2022

Panelist

Hussein Kassim was part of a panel on 'The State of UK-EU relations' at the UK in a Changing Europe annual conference 2024, 18 June 2024

Talks

Hussein Kassim gave a talk on 'Post election prospects for UK-EU relations' at the Royal Elcano Institute, Madrid, 13 June, 2024

Past events

For recordings from events for earlier projects, see:

Negotiating The Future: The UK's Repositioning In Europe

• Good Neighbours? The UK and Europe Conference
• After Brexit: Utopia or Dystopia
• UK Regulation after Brexit revisited

• Launch event for UK regulation after Brexit, February 2021

Negotiating Brexit: National Governments, EU Institutions and the UK

• Negotiating the future EU-UK relationship, 12 March 2020 ('London conference')

• Brexit means Brexit, but what does that mean?

Assessing UK membership of the EU

Publications

Our Reports

New 'UK-EU: What next?Link opens in a new window' July 2024

New 'The UK and its Neighbours: views from across Europe' - first publication from the Living with the Neighbours Observatory June 2024

‘UK Regulation after BrexitLink opens in a new window’

‘UK Regulation after Brexit revisited'​Link opens in a new window

Explainer and working papers

Cleo Davies and Hussein Kassim Institutions and governance of the EU-UK relationship

Cleo Davies and Hussein Kassim UK bilaterals with EU member States since Brexit

Cleo Davies and Hussein Kassim Unfinished Business? The Trade and Cooperation Agreement

Members of the 'Living with the Neighbours Observatory'

Nicholas Aylott, Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Södertörn University, Stockholm; Gianfranco Baldini, University of Bologna, Italy; Spyros Blavoukos, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece; Peter Bursens, University of Antwerp; Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and Visiting Professor at Aston University, United Kingdom; Enrique Feás, the Elcano Royal Institute and the IE University and School of Global and Public Affairs, Madrid, Spain; John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway; Justin Frosini, Bocconi University, Milan and Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy; Sara Hagemann, Copenhagen University, Denmark; Mark Harwood, University of Malta and Director of the Institute for European Studies, Malta; Eva G. Heidbreder, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; Petr Kaniok, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Rem Korteweg, Clingendael Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands; Brigid Laffan, the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and University of Limerick, Ireland; Ignacio Molina, the Elcano Royal Institute and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Adonis Pegasiou, European Institute of Management and Finance, Nicosia, Cyprus; Laura C. Pereira, University of Minho; Volodymyr Posviatenko, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; Pauline Schnapper, Paris III Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, France; René Schwok, University of Geneva, Switzerland; Natasza Styczyńska, Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania; Nicolai von Ondarza, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany; Stefanie Walter, University of Zurich

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