Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Tuesday March 26, 2019 at 12:30 PM PDT
Brexit continues to revolve around a basic dilemma: to break up the United Kingdom or to break up Ireland.
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Tag: Brexit
Alvaro Vargas Llosa | Wednesday December 20, 2017 at 2:39 PM PST
If we want everything to remain the same, everything must change. These famous words from The Leopard, Lampedusa’s masterpiece of social upheaval in Sicily during the Italian unification, might as well have been inspired by Brexit, to judge by the first phase of the negotiations between London and the European Union, which have finally...
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Kevin Dowd | Thursday September 28, 2017 at 1:21 PM PDT
[This article was co-authored with David Paton and David Blake, and first appeared on TheConversation.com.] The benefits of free trade have been familiar to economists since Adam Smith. Trade encourages specialisation and leads to lower costs, higher productivity and higher living standards. Yet for some economists, things are different when it comes to the...
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Kevin Dowd | Wednesday April 26, 2017 at 8:42 AM PDT
On June 23, 2016, the British people voted to leave the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May’s Lancaster House speech on January 17, 2017 then made it clear that the United Kingdom would opt for a hard Brexit: It would leave not just the EU, but also the European Economic Area, membership of which...
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Kevin Dowd | Wednesday April 19, 2017 at 11:10 AM PDT
You will by now have seen the news from the United Kingdom: Prime Minister Theresa May is calling a snap general election. Frankly, I had been wondering why she didn’t do this earlier. Here is my quick take: Now, I admit that I was never a great fan of Mrs. May. I don’t care...
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William F. Shughart II | Wednesday July 6, 2016 at 1:00 PM PDT
Voters in today’s slimmed-down United Kingdom (comprised mainly of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) approved on June 23, by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent, a referendum obligating London to leave the European Union. David Cameron, the nation’s prime minister and a staunch supporter of “remain” in the prequel to Election...
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Randall G. Holcombe | Monday June 27, 2016 at 10:34 AM PDT
Brexit In the short time since the Brits voted to exit the EU, much of the commentary I’ve read views the vote as a move toward isolationism. Regardless of the motivations of the voters, a more accurate way to look at it is that the British voted for self-government rather than government from afar....
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Kevin Dowd | Monday June 20, 2016 at 5:42 PM PDT
[Based on remarks to the Hewitts-Northern Echo Brexit debate held in Darlington, County Durham, England, 15 June 2016.] If we British vote to stay in the European Union (EU), we should consider exactly what it is that we would be voting to remain in. The EU is a democratically-deficient failed state. Its ‘constitution’ is...
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