Brexit negotiations [What Think Tanks are thinking]

With less than six months to go before the United Kingdom was due to leave the European Union, there was a palpable sense of tension surrounding the Brexit negotiations.

At their meeting in Salzburg, Austria, in September 2018, EU leaders in effect rejected British Prime Minister Theresa May’s ‘Chequers’ plan’ for the UK’s future relationship with the EU. The move prompted acrimony among British politicians and jolted the financial markets, fearful of a no-deal Brexit.

However, both sides were working hard to make progress in negotiations ahead of the next European Council meeting, on 18 October.

This note offered links to reports and commentaries from some major international think-tanks and research institutes on Brexit negotiations and related issues.

Compiler: Marcin Grajewski

Further information
There have been earlier EPRS compilations of think tank reports on Brexit which can be accessed here:

+ Latest on Brexit, July 2018
+ Brexit negotiations, May 2018
+ The Brexit process, January 2018
+ Latest thinking on Brexit, October 2017
+ Brexit negotiations, September 2017
+ Start of Brexit negotiations, June 2017
+ Brexit negotiations, April 2017
+ Latest thinking on Brexit, February 2017
+ Brexit: Implications and outlook, October 2016
+ Brexit and the future of the European Union, July 2016
+ Brexit: What next for Britain and Europe?, July 2016
+ The United Kingdom And The European Union , February 2016

There is also a complementary Think Tank Review compiled by the Library of the Council of the European Union. A special issue of this was published in June 2018 which brought together articles with a Brexit theme from earlier issues of the Review from April 2017 until May 2018. Further Brexit papers were listed in TTR No.60, October 2018.

A further regularly updated Brexit reading list is available from the House of Commons Library.

ESO: In Focus: Brexit - The United Kingdom and the European Union http://www.europeansources.info/record/brexit-the-united-kingdom-and-the-european-union/

Chatham House: Tag: After Brexit: Britain's Future http://www.europeansources.info/record/after-brexit-britains-future/

ECFR: Tag: Brexit: Responses http://www.ecfr.eu/debate/responses_to_the_british_referendum

openDemocracy: Brexit: After the Vote https://www.opendemocracy.net/brexit2016

Centre for European Policy Studies: Brexit research and publications https://www.ceps.eu/search?keywords=brexit&type=All

European Policy Centre: Insert 'Brexit' in the Search field http://www.epc.eu/search_results.php

Carnegie Europe: Regions and Countries: United Kingdom http://carnegieendowment.org/regions/339

Centre for European Reform: Hot Topics: Britain and the EU http://www.cer.eu/hot-topics/britain-eu

Institute of International and European Affairs: Themes: Britain http://www.iiea.com/themes/treemap/brexit

IPPR: Brexit https://www.ippr.org/search?search=brexit

Notre Europe / Jacques Delors Institute: Brexit http://www.delorsinstitute.eu/13-Search-result.htm?keyword=brexit&theme=&type=&dates=

Polish Institute of International Affairs: Countries: United Kingdom http://www.pism.pl/regions/?tag=215

Council of the European Union: General Secretariat: Think Tank Review, No.52, December 2017: Special Focus: Brexit on the border: Theories for possible realities http://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/documents-publications/library/library-blog/posts/think-tank-review-issue-52-2017/

EP: EPRS: Tag: What Think Tanks Are Thinking https://epthinktank.eu/tag/what-think-tanks-are-thinking/

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