Covid and the Geopolitics of Brexit. A British-German Conversation

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Description:	For more than two months, the UK and the EU, like most of the rest of the world - has been preoccupied with the Coronavirus pandemic. Now, as the deadline for an extension to the Brexit talks looms, and the German presidency of the EU Council approaches, some old themes are creeping back up the agenda. How will the pandemic affect relations between UK and EU post-Brexit? Has the pandemic tended to weaken or strengthen the two unions? (Four nations in UK; North-South, or east-west divide in EU)? Do leaders on both sides have the bandwidth to make a deal, or can they not afford not to make one? Is there a special role for Germany here? Does the geopolitical context of Covid, especially the sharpening of the Sino-American antagonism, drive EU-UK closer together, or further apart? Is the EU-UK dispute about detail or the broader question of ordering post-Brexit? Has the pandemic changed the frame of this confrontation, or merely changed the balance of power between the two sides? To discuss these themes the Centre for Geopolitics has assembled a distinguished panel.

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For more than two months, the UK and the EU, like most of the rest of the world - has been preoccupied with the Coronavirus pandemic. Now, as the deadline for an extension to the Brexit talks looms, and the German presidency of the EU Council approaches, some old themes are creeping back up the agenda. How will the pandemic affect relations between UK and EU post-Brexit? Has the pandemic tended to weaken or strengthen the two unions? (Four nations in UK; North-South, or east-west divide in EU)? Do leaders on both sides have the bandwidth to make a deal, or can they not afford not to make one? Is there a special role for Germany here? Does the geopolitical context of Covid, especially the sharpening of the Sino-American antagonism, drive EU-UK closer together, or further apart? Is the EU-UK dispute about detail or the broader question of ordering post-Brexit? Has the pandemic changed the frame of this confrontation, or merely changed the balance of power between the two sides? To discuss these themes the Centre for Geopolitics has assembled a distinguished panel.


Created:	2020-06-25 22:19
Collection:	Centre for Geopolitics
Publisher:	Centre for Geopolitics
Copyright:	Centre for Geopolitics
Language:	eng (English)
Keywords:	geopolitics; COVID-19; brexit; EU;


Abstract:	Panel: Bridget Kendall, Master of Peterhouse, and former BBC Diplomatic Correspondent (chair) Dr Franziska Brantner, German Parliament deputy for the Green Party and Member Bundestag Committee on European Affairs. Prof Christopher Hill, Emeritus Professor of International Relations in POLIS, the University of Cambridge, and author of the recent book The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit , as well as of numerous works on the external relations of the EU and its Member States. Siemtje Moeller, German Parliament Deputy for the SPD and Member of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag Bob Seely, Conservative MP and Member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs

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Panel:
Bridget Kendall, Master of Peterhouse, and former BBC Diplomatic Correspondent (chair)
Dr Franziska Brantner, German Parliament deputy for the Green Party and Member Bundestag Committee on European Affairs.
Prof Christopher Hill, Emeritus Professor of International Relations in POLIS, the University of Cambridge, and author of the recent book The Future of British Foreign Policy: Security and Diplomacy in a World after Brexit , as well as of numerous works on the external relations of the EU and its Member States.
Siemtje Moeller, German Parliament Deputy for the SPD and Member of the Defense Committee of the Bundestag
Bob Seely, Conservative MP and Member of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs

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