If context is everything, what are we to make of a British prime minister making a speech on Europe in a gloomy cloister of a Florentine church? Her audience was the Westminster press lobby, flown out and back on fat expenses, and a clutch of patronised and bewildered Italian dignitaries. Surely the event cannot have been part of the government's charm offensive launched to demonstrate that Britain's Rolls-Royce diplomacy will continue effortlessly after Brexit? Indeed, the spectacle in the cloister (probably the brainchild of a Tory-boy press officer) was pretty desperate. Florence has other more dignified venues, notably the European University Institute at Badia Fiesolana. Compare just for a moment the tortured delivery of Theresa May in...
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On 29 March Theresa May will at last notify President Tusk of her country’s intention to withdraw fr...
In dogged pursuit of her deal, Theresa May continues to try to win over some Brexiteer MPs to ratify...
The collapse of the Juncker-May talks on 4 December has plunged the Brexit process into crisis. Whet...
If context is everything, what are we to make of a British prime minister making a speech on Europe ...
Over the years, the rest of the European Union has got very used to being lectured at by British pri...
Theresa May has held her eagerly awaited Florence speech, signalling some willingness to compromise ...
The agreement reached by the British cabinet at Chequers is decisive for Brexit. The subsequent Whit...
Historians will be generally unkind to Theresa May. Indeed, they have already begun to be so. In his...
Now that Article 50 has officially been triggered, the process of untangling the UK from the Europea...
Andrew Duff assesses the domestic political situation in Britain after the Brexit- dominated party p...
At the European Council of 9-10 March, Theresa May will, In all likelihood, at last invoke Article 5...
At the October EU Summit, as expected, the EU27 did not conclude that the Brexit negotiations had pr...
The Article 50 secession treaty must be accompanied by a Political Declaration outlining the framewo...
At least as far as the British side were concerned, the Brexit process had been stagnating ever sinc...
Following the June European Council, Andrew Duff reviews the state of play in the Article 50 negotia...
On 29 March Theresa May will at last notify President Tusk of her country’s intention to withdraw fr...
In dogged pursuit of her deal, Theresa May continues to try to win over some Brexiteer MPs to ratify...
The collapse of the Juncker-May talks on 4 December has plunged the Brexit process into crisis. Whet...