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There are myriad Brexit blogs, yet few from a left position. Our intention is not to add just one more opinion, but to create debate and engender political education and exchange on selected issues. It is time to link new and existing struggles and harness them towards a more effective left strategy for building a people’s Europe. With this blog, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Brussels aims to support this process.
Over the next months we will be inviting activists, journalists, and thinkers and others to contribute to this discussion in the form of analysis as well as ...
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read more "Not just another Brexit blog"
The European Parliament Elections in the United KingdomAt the time of writing, it is still unclear whether the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland will actually participate in the 2019 European Parliament elections. If Prime Minister Theresa May manages to get the European Union Withdrawal Agreement negotiated with Brussels through the House of Commons, Brexit would stop the UK taking part. A second, even less probable, scenario would be a new agreement approved by both the House of Commons and the EU. However, if, as looks likely, the UK is ...
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As crowds were gathering outside Parliament on Friday to voice their discontent for being denied their ‘Independence Day’, the majority of the British public was largely confused – after all, Brexit Day was supposed to be 29 March, and if that got delayed, what happens next?
This confusion is undoubtedly shared by fellow Europeans across the continent who watch with bemusement as one of the key EU member states plunges itself deeper and deeper into a constitutional crisis with no end in sight. And while it may not look like it right now, in ...
read more "Britain after Brexit-Day. We are still here."
read more "Britain after Brexit-Day. We are still here."