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Explaining the project

project examines EU-UK relations and the UK post-Brexit bilateral relations with European states.

Conducted as part of Hussein Kassim's Senior Fellowship under the ESRC's U (UKICE), ' builds on two earlier projects, ‘Negotiating Brexit: EU institutions, national governments, and the UK’Link opens in a new window, and ‘Negotiating the FutureLink opens in a new window’, which examined the negotiations that led respectively to the Withdrawal Act and the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. It also assesses the The events conducted as part of my first Fellowship, ‘Assessing UK membership of the EULink opens in a new window’, explored key aspects of UK-EU relations.

As part of those projects, I have organised multiple events, published commentary and analysis, and co-hosted with Cleo Davies four series of podcasts, including 'Books on Brexit', ‘Good Neighbours? The UK and Europe after Brexit’, After Brexit: What has changed?’ and ‘Negotiating Brexit: views from the Member States’.

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Project team

Professor Hussein KassimLink opens in a new window, Principal Investigator

Dr Kirsty WarnerLink opens in a new window, Assistant Professor (from Sept 2024)

Dr Cleo Davies, Senior Research Fellow (until Aug 2024)

Dr Pippa Lacey, Administrative Assistant

Funding: UK Economic and Social Research Council (under 'UK in a Changing Europe' programme)

Start date: 1 December 2022 

End date: 30 November 2025

Podcasts

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News and events

In the news:

Kirsty Warner interviewed by on youth mobility.

Conferences

, 28 May 2025

, 26 October 2022

Panelist

Hussein Kassim was part of a panel on 'The State of UK-EU relations' at the 18 June 2024

Talks

Hussein Kassim gave a talk on 'Post election prospects for UK-EU relations' at the Royal Elcano Institute, Madrid, 13 June, 2024

Past events

For recordings from events for earlier projects, see:

Negotiating The Future: The UK's Repositioning In Europe

• Good Neighbours? The UK and Europe Conference
• After Brexit: Utopia or Dystopia
• UK Regulation after Brexit revisited

• , February 2021

Negotiating Brexit: National Governments, EU Institutions and the UK

• Negotiating the future EU-UK relationship, 12 March 2020 ('London conference')

• Brexit means Brexit, but what does that mean?

Assessing UK membership of the EU

Publications

Our latest blogs

Kirsty Warner, '', March 2025

The Starmer Government and Europe: Resetting relations in turbulent times 28 May 2025, a production

'' July 2024

'' - first publication from the June 2024

‘UK Regulation after BrexitLink opens in a new window’

‘UK Regulation after Brexit revisited'​Link opens in a new window

Explainer and working papers

Cleo Davies and Hussein Kassim

Cleo Davies and Hussein Kassim UK bilaterals with EU member States since Brexit

Cleo Davies and Hussein Kassim Unfinished ÌÇÐÄTV? The Trade and Cooperation Agreement

, 28 January 2025

Members of the 'Living with the Neighbours Observatory'

Nicholas Aylott, Swedish Institute of International Affairs and Södertörn University, Stockholm; Gianfranco Baldini, University of Bologna, Italy; Catherine Barnard, UK in a Changing Europe and Cambridge University Faculty of Law; Spyros Blavoukos, Athens University of Economics and ÌÇÐÄTV (AUEB), Greece; Peter Bursens, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Monika Brusenbauch Meislová, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic and Visiting Professor at Aston University, United Kingdom; Cleo Davies, Forward College, Paris, France; Enrique Feás, the Elcano Royal Institute and the IE University and School of Global and Public Affairs, Madrid, Spain; John Erik Fossum, ARENA Centre for European Studies, University of Oslo, Norway; Justin Frosini, Bocconi University, Milan and Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy; Sara Hagemann, Copenhagen University, Denmark; Thibaud Harrois, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France; Mark Harwood, University of Malta and former Director of the Institute for European Studies, Malta; Eva G. Heidbreder, the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; Petr Kaniok, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic; Hussein Kassim, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK; Rem Korteweg, Clingendael Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands; Anand Menon, UK in a Changing Europe and Kings College London; Jens Ladefoged Mortensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Brigid Laffan, the European University Institute, Florence, Italy and University of Limerick, Ireland; Ignacio Molina, the Elcano Royal Institute and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain; Adonis Pegasiou, European Institute of Management and Finance, Nicosia, Cyprus; Laura C. Pereira, University of Minho; Volodymyr Posviatenko, Institute of European Studies, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; Pauline Schnapper, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris III, France; René Schwok,University of Geneva, Switzerland; Natasza StyczyÅ„ska, Institute of European Studies of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland; RamÅ«nas VilpiÅ¡auskas, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania; Nicolai von Ondarza, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik - German Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin, Germany; Stefanie Walter, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Kirsty Warner, University of ÌÇÐÄTV, UK; Richard Whitman, University of Kent; UK.

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