Centre for Britain and Europe blog

All the latest British and European politics news.

The curious case of post-Brexit Britain

By Christian Turner– Ph.D. candidate and Junior Fellow with the Centre for Britain and Europe. As Boris Johnson prepares to depart Downing Street after a tumultuous three year period, it is fair to stake stock of Britain’s position. Six years on from that fateful EU Referendum, Britain is set to welcome its fourth Prime Minister […]


The European Court of Human Rights v. Rwanda Asylum Seeker Plan

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, […]


A new community for a new Europe?

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. […]


How Putin’s War in Ukraine became a revolutionary moment for German foreign and defence policy

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 […]


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