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History reveals the hazards of dismantling trade protection

31 Jan 2017

As the UK prepares to leave the EU, trade regimes are being reconfigured. Research into 19th-century trade regulations by Carolyn Cobbold, historian...

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Opinion: Parliament needs to load the Article 50 gun before Prime Minister triggers Brexit

24 Jan 2017

Cambridge’s Professor of European Law reacts to the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling

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First Brexit and now Trump: what is populism and how might we view it?

24 Jan 2017

In an article that draws on her research into populism in Western Europe, Léonie de Jonge (PhD candidate in the Department of Politics and...

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Opinion: Brexit and workers' rights

18 Jan 2017

Cambridge's Professor of European Union Law offers her initial reaction to the Prime Minister's Brexit speech

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Opinion: The Full Brexit

17 Jan 2017

The Director of Cambridge's Centre for European Legal Studies offers his initial reaction to the Prime Minister's address

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Opinion: Four ways to understand Theresa May’s Hard Brexit Speech

17 Jan 2017

An economic historian offers her initial reaction to the Prime Minister's address

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New report on macro-economic impact of Brexit questions Treasury forecasts

06 Jan 2017

Economists at the Centre for Business Research (CBR) have challenged the assumptions of the Treasury in their new forecast for the UK economy and the...

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EU referendum CONTRAST

Hard Brexiter or ardent Remainer? Psychologists aim to find out what drives our political ideologies

01 Dec 2016

At a time of increasing divisions within politics – think of the recent battles over whether the UK should remain in or leave the European Union –...

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Opinion: Latest Brexit legal challenge will not be ‘back door’ to Single Market

28 Nov 2016

Failure to invoke Article 127 of the EEA Agreement will not keep the UK in a Single Market by the back door after Brexit. The UK is only a...

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Brexit: High Court ruling on Article 50 explained

03 Nov 2016

In a landmark constitutional judgment handed down today, the High Court has put a stumbling block in the way of the Prime Minister’s plan to trigger...

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Brexit: Listen to experts from Cambridge and beyond discuss how, why and what next for Brexit Britain

02 Nov 2016

Listen to some of the talks that were given as part of the University's 'Brexit Week' series, which took place from 18 - 22 October.

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Who wants to talk?

Opinion: Brexit and the importance of languages for Britain

26 Sep 2016

In the first of a new series of comment pieces written by linguists at Cambridge, Sarah Colvin, Schröder Professor of German and Head of the...

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