Explaining the project

'Living with the NeighboursLink 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’, and ‘Negotiating the Future’, 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 Cleo DaviesLink opens in a new window, Senior Research Fellow

Dr Pippa Lacey, Administrative Assistant

Podcasts

'Books on Brexit' with guests including Michel Barnier, Philip Cunliffe, Stefaan De Rynck, Peter Foster, Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy and Jonathan Evershed, and Robert Tombs

‘Good Neighbours? The UK and Europe after Brexit’Link opens in a new window with guests including Stefaan De Rynck and Dan Ferrie; Katy Hayward and David Phinnemore; Georg Riekeles and Sieglinde Gstöhl; Stefanie Walter and Christian Frommelt; John Erik Fossum, Merethe Dotterud Leiren and Christopher Lord; Richard Whitman and Baroness Neville-Jones; Michael Kenny, Leslie Vinjumari and Srdjan Vucetic

'After Brexit: What has changed?’ with guests including Amelia Fletcher, Albert Sánchez-Graells, and Andreas Stephan; Pierre Bocquillon, Charlotte Burns, and Brendan Moore; Katy Hayward; Christopher Huggins; Amelia Fletcher. and Karen McCullagh; Catherine Barnard and Steve Peers; Tola Amodu and Andrew Fearne; Sarah Hall and Scott James; Sarah Hall, Martin Heneghan and Hussein Kassim; Michael Harker and Kathryn Wright; Sabine Jacques; David Bailey

‘Negotiating Brexit: views from the Member States’ with guests including Eva Heidbreder, Nicolai Von Ordonza; Christian Lequesne, Pauline Schnapper; Salvador Llaudes, Ignacio Molina; Brigid Laffan, Mary C. Murphy; Catherine de Vries, Rem Korteweg; Przemysław Biskup, Natasza Styczyńska; Piret Kuusik, Ramūnas Vilpišauskas; Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Sara Hagemann

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 report 'The UK and its Neighbours: views from across Europe' Link opens in a new window- first publication from the Living with the Neighbours ObservatoryLink opens in a new window 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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