Centre for Britain and Europe blog

By Professor Amelia Hadfield and Evie Horner[1] Tuesday 14 June 2022 saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s erstwhile “innovative approach”[2] to tackle illegal migration halted at the eleventh hour by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). 37 people were originally due to be on the inaugural Tuesday flight to Rwanda; however with previous legal challenges, […]

Picturing Macron’s vision for a European Political Community Christian Turner is Ph.D. candidate and Junior Fellow with the Centre for Britain and Europe. His research examines post-Brexit British foreign policy, formal and informal alliances through a hard and soft power analysis. Patricia Amalia Vulpe is Visiting Master’s Student at the Centre for Britain in Europe. […]

By Nicholas Wright, 3 March 2022 Dr Nicholas Wright is a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Britain in Europe, University of Surrey. He is an expert on British, German and EU foreign, security and defence policy, and the author of ‘The EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy in Germany and the UK: Co-operation, Co-optation […]

By Rachel Maughan After spending time in Australia where first-hand accounts of the treatment of asylum seekers on Christmas Island reached my attention, I became interested in learning how my home country, the UK, also welcomed asylum seekers. Volunteering with a local refugee NGO alerted me to the 2021 Nationality & Borders Bill headed by […]

Professor Amelia Hadfield and Christian Turner On the morning of February 24th, Europe woke up to the spectre of war hanging over the continent. It should not have been a surprise. We’ve had numerous indications  – both diplomatic and geopolitical – of Russia’s aggressive intentions, including clear illustrations of Russian hardware making its way inexorably […]