The U.K. and Europe on the Brink of Brexit
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2018
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that U.K. and EU officials have reached a provisional Brexit agreement. Though as of this recording, the text of that agreement has not been released, we at Lawfare thought it a good time for a refresher on how senior Europe experts and British officials are thinking about the U.K.’s split from the European Union. On October 23, the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe hosted a panel discussion on the endgame of the Brexit negotiations with Sir Kim Darroch, Britain’s ambassador to the United States; Amanda Sloat, senior fellow at Brookings; Douglas Alexander, former U.K. shadow foreign secretary; and Lucinda Creighton, a former Irish minister for European affairs. Edward Luce of the Financial Times moderated the discussion.
They talked about some of the thorniest issues at stake in Britain’s departure, including the unresolved trade issues between the U.K. and the EU, how Scotland—whose residents overwhelmingly opposed leaving the EU in the 2016 referendum—may react to Brexit, and the risks Brexit poses to a peaceful future in Northern Ireland.
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| 0:22.0 | rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath. |
| 0:30.0 | One of the most profoundly disturbing, distressing, depressing aspects of British public debate over the last 18 months |
| 0:42.0 | has been the extent to which it has revealed very senior British politicians |
| 0:48.0 | profound ignorance of relationships with our neighbours in Ireland, |
| 0:54.0 | a lack of affinity and understanding with the fragility of the peace that was hard one and secured by politics |
| 1:02.0 | and can surely be undone by politics unless the right steps are taken. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Michaela Fogel and this is the LawFair podcast November 13th 2018. |
| 1:14.0 | On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that UK and EU officials have reached a provisional Brexit agreement. |
| 1:21.0 | Though as of this recording, the text of that agreement has not been released, |
| 1:25.0 | we at LawFair thought it would be a good time for a refresher on how senior Europe experts and British officials |
| 1:31.0 | are thinking about the UK's split from the European Union. |
| 1:35.0 | On October 23rd, the Brookings Center on the United States and Europe hosted a panel discussion on the end game of Brexit negotiations |
| 1:42.0 | with Sir Kim Darack, Britain's ambassador to the United States, Amanda Sloat, senior fellow at Brookings, Douglas Alexander, |
| 1:50.0 | who was the UK's Shadow Foreign Secretary and Lucinda Cretan, a former Irish minister for European Affairs. |
| 1:58.0 | Edward Loose of the Financial Times moderated the discussion. |
| 2:02.0 | They talked about some of the the thorniest issues at stake in Britain's departure, |
| 2:06.0 | including the unresolved trade issues between the UK and EU, |
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