Cambridge Core BlogWhat Effects Might Brexit have on Business and Human Rights in the UK and Beyond?
The Brexit deadline and the nature and even implementation of a transitional deal with the EU remain uncertain at the time of writing.…
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Brexit and European Legal Studies
Brexit may have a surprising potential to animate European Legal Studies as a field of legal enquiry. Never has the demand for European legal expertise been higher than it is now as we come to terms with the complexities of the process from withdrawing from the EU.…
Brexit and the Rights of UK Nationals in the EU
What is the common point between Shamima Begum, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliff and the one million British citizens in the EU in a Brexit context? Whatever their (many) differences, all raise the question of what a state’s obligations are towards its citizens abroad
Whither EU and UK Social Policy Post-Brexit?
In an article initially drafted a year ago and now published in a themed section of Social Policy and Society, we attempt to assess the past and future development of EU and UK social policy in the context of Brexit.…
EU Social and Gender Policy beyond Brexit
In the United Kingdom and across the European Union, Brexit continues to be the key social, political and economic issue of the day.…
Brexit and Devolution
Since the Brexit referendum the UK government has been criticised for failing to recognise the positions and concerns of the devolved governments.…
Warning: the cost of Brexit could seriously damage your health service
Leaving the EU would free up more money for the NHS, according to Leave campaigners. This pledge has been all but disowned – and in any case, writes Joan Costa Font, Brexit will impose further costs on an already cash-strapped service. The biggest effect will be on wage bills, but it will also restrict choice for Britons and raise procurement costs.…
Taking back control and handing it back to corporations: The UK’s Brexit
Below is a blog based on Kevin Farnsworth’s Journal of Social Policy article. A longer, fully-referenced version can be found at: http://www.corporate-welfare-watch.org.uk/ Many of those who voted to leave the EU would have been encouraged to do so in order to ‘take back control’ from Brussels.…
Counting the Cost of European Union Regulation, You Couldn’t Make It Up
The role of regulation in saving lives, enhancing public health and welfare, and protecting the environment rarely features in policy debates in the UK.…
Brexit means higher immigration and more social spending
As many commentators have pointed out, the UK welfare state faces long-term structural problems in two main areas. Globalisation and technological changes demand that government directs attention to national competitiveness, and population ageing requires more spending on pensions, health and social care.…
Brexit and Race Equality Policies
With Brexit negotiations underway, a key question is whether withdrawal from the EU will affect equality policies. The Fawcett Society has recently warned that Government ‘Great Repeal Bill’ will present ‘a real threat to our equality laws’ in so far as it risks ‘weakening of protections’.…
‘”The Big Bang”: Analysing the EU Enlargements’ Impact on National Labour Law’
In 2004, then President of the European Union’s European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, declared that “from fifteen – suddenly there were twenty-five, and finally, Europe had become ‘Europe’ again.” He was speaking, of course, about the European Union (EU) enlargement when, in May 2004 and fifteen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, eight post-communist Central and Eastern European countries joined the European Union.…