From the Center for European Reform, this is the CERR podcast.

Hello, welcome to the Bulletin podcast. My name is Sophia Besh.

Six times a year, the Center for European Reform publishes the CER Bulletin.

And bulletin articles are often pieces of research with a longer

shelf life that you can come back to again and again to read up on the issues that they discuss.

In the bulletin podcast, I'm going to ask each of the three authors of this month's bulletin,

three questions, and they get around five minutes to each brief view on their argument.

In order to do that, I've gathered

all three of them in our very professional CR podcast studio, which frankly is quite crammed at the

moment, but we'll make do. First, we have John Springford, who will propose a solution for the trade

relationship between the UK and the EU post-Brexit. Then we have Agatha Gesinze Yaakovska,

who will explain the conflict between Poland and the EU and whether the new Polish Prime Minister will pursue a change in policy.

And then there's Ian Bond who's going to speak about one year of President Trump in the White

House and how to interpret the new US foreign policy course. Right. First, John, your piece in this

year's bulletin is called

Holding Out Hope for a Halfway Brexit House. I love a good alliteration. It's great. The premise for

your piece really is that now that the divorce is agreed and the negotiations are moving forward

on trade and the transition, the UK's and the EU's positions are becoming clearer, that the UK will

push for Britain to maintain a regulatory alignment with the EU's positions are becoming clearer, that the UK will push for Britain to maintain

a regulatory alignment with the EU in some sectors while being free to diverge in others,

and that the EU, led by France and Germany, has said that given Theresa May's red lines, as they've been stated,

there can be no halfway house between a free trade agreement and full participation in the single market.

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