Project overview

This important project examined the approaches taken by the governments of the remaining member states (EU27), the EU institutions, and the UK to the Article 50 negotiations and to negotiations concerning the UK’s future relationship with the EU.

Project aims were to:

• provide informed commentary as the negotiations develop via a dedicated website, blogs and downloadable texts aimed at a general readership in the UK and beyond
• hold conferences open to all at important stages of the negotiations
• create a digital depository of key documents available to anyone interested in the UK’s changing relationship with the EU
• deliver a collective volume that tracks the approaches of governments and EU institutions from David Cameron’s 2013 Bloomberg speech, through the June 23 referendum, the formal triggering of the Article 50 process by the government of Theresa May, to the negotiations themselves
• examine in an edited collection the domestic politics of Brexit across the EU
• contribute to academic scholarship on preferences, preference formation, and international negotiations

Key contacts:

Professor Hussein KassimLink opens in a new window, Principal Investigator, ESRC Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe

Dr Cleo Davies, Senior Research Associate

Dr Pippa Lacey, Administrative Assistant

Funding: UK Economic and Social Research Council

Project dates: 2017 - 2019