Brexit negotiations [What Think Tanks are thinking]

European Union officials warned the United Kingdom in the spring of 2018 that time was running out if definitive agreement on the country’s withdrawal from the Union was to be reached by the autumn of 2018.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister, Theresa May, was struggling to keep her Cabinet and Conservative Party united as the focus of negotiations had shifted to the future customs regime and the accompanying, highly sensitive, issue of the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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:

+ 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.

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/

Blog: Open Europe, 16.01.18: The view from Brussels: how do think tanks in Brussels see Brexit talks unfolding in 2018? https://openeurope.org.uk/today/blog/view-brussels-how-think-tanks-in-brussels-see-brexit-talks-unfolding-2018/

UK in a Changing Europe: Blog, 26.06.18: After two years, it remains impossible to say with any certainty what Brexit actually means http://ukandeu.ac.uk/after-two-years-it-remains-impossible-to-say-with-any-certainty-what-brexit-actually-means/

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