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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Anand Menon |Joël Reland
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | Joël Reland
This is the twelfth edition of UK in a Changing Europe’s Regulatory Divergence Tracker, outlining how UK and EU regulations have diverged from one another in the period April-October 2024. Unusually, this tracker covers two quarters, accounting for the fact that UK and EU legislative activity was paused over the summer during their respective election periods.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | Joël Reland |Alex Walker
With reports that Trump may seek to pull the UK away from the EU’s regulatory orbit, Joël Reland sets out the obstacles to this agenda. Drawing on the forthcoming edition of the UKICE Divergence Tracker, he highlights that under the new Labour government a shift from divergence to alignment with the EU is in fact taking place.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | Joël Reland |Alex Walker
With the EU objecting to a UK ban on sand eel fishing, Joel Reland sets out three wider lessons for the UK-EU relationship. Amid all the talk of a UK-EU ‘reset’, few would have expected one of the first items on the agenda to be the fate of sand eels. Yet, at the end of last month, the European Commission requested the establishment of an arbitration tribunal, to rule on whether a UK ban on sand eel fishing is compatible with the UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement (TCA).
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | Joël Reland |Alex Walker
Joël Reland unpacks the significant Brexit bill no-one’s talking about – the product Regulation and Metrology Bill, which would give UK ministers the power to unilaterally align with EU regulations related to the environmental impact of products. He highlights that there is still much that’s not clear about the Bill at this stage, and that parliamentary scrutiny will be crucial.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | Joël Reland |Alex Walker
As Starmer heads to Brussels hoping to kick start Labour’s planned EU reset, Joël Reland argues that climate and energy is an underdiscussed area of potential closer cooperation with benefits for both sides. Keir Starmer is in Brussels today for a much-anticipated tête-à-tête with Ursula von der Leyen. Brexit-watchers will hope that their first formal meeting provides clarity on which issues the two sides will focus on in any ‘reset’ of relations.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | Joël Reland |Alex Walker
Joël Reland argues that so far the new government’s EU ‘reset’ has been largely a continuity of what was achieved under Rishi Sunak, and asks whether Labour has a longer-term vision for the UK’s relationship with the EU. The Labour Party is back from its European honeymoon. Keir Starmer, David Lammy et al spent the summer touring European capitals, talking up an EU ‘reset’ and a ‘once in a generation’ opportunity for change.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | Joël Reland
Labour’s election manifesto promised to improve the UK’s trading relationship with the EU, outlining three specific measures to be taken. One of these is a ‘mutual recognition agreement for professional qualifications’. In this explainer, Joel Reland considers what this might mean, and what affect it might it have on UK-EU trade. What is mutual recognition of professional qualifications?
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Sep 13, 2024 | 
ukandeu.ac.uk | Joël Reland
Labour’s election manifesto promised to improve the UK’s trading relationship with the EU, outlining three specific measures to be taken. One of these is to ‘help our touring artists’. In this explainer, Joel Reland looks at what this actually means, and what affect it might have on UK-EU trade. Who are touring artists and how have they been affected by Brexit? ‘Touring artists’ refers to performing artists who travel abroad to perform music or for other work.
