CCBS Director, Ruth Taillon, CCBS Board Member and QUB Lecturer Dr Katy Hayward, and QUB Postgraduate Research Student Matthew O’Neill travelled to Ottawa, Canada for the Borders in Globalization 2nd International Conference on 6 – 8 December. The panel at which they presented – on the consequences of Brexit – could not have been more […]
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Centre for Cross Border Studies Journal Launch 2017 and the CCBS Winter Lecture
The Centre for Cross Border Studies (CCBS) launched the 2017 edition of its Journal of Cross Border Studies in Ireland on Monday 4th December in Riddle Hall in Belfast. Chair of the CCBS Board Dr Helen Johnston opened the event before guest speaker Professor Duncan Morrow, Director of Community Engagement at Ulster University, gave his lecture […]
Read MoreCCBS joins the Cohesion Alliance
The Centre for Cross Border Studies has joined the CohesionAlliance for a strong EU cohesion policy beyond 2020. Cohesion policy is the main European investment policy to achieve the EU Treaty objective of economic, social and territorial cohesion. In doing so cohesion policy has a clear added value in creating jobs, sustainable growth and modern […]
Read MoreCCBS Deputy Director invited panellist at the 2017 Michael J Murphy Winter School’s “Big Brexit Debate”
CCBS Deputy Director, Anthony Soares, took part in a discussion panel at the 2017 Michael J Murphy Winter School, where the topic was “Will Brexit move the border?” The panel was chaired by Eamonn Mallie, and the other participants were Lucy Anderson MEP, Matt Carthy MEP, Damien McGenity (Border Communities Against Brexit), and Eoin Ó […]
Read MorePolicy Seminar in Edinburgh jointly organised by CCBS and the Centre on Constitutional Change
CCBS and the Centre on Constitutional Change jointly organised a successful policy seminar at Edinburgh University on the 20th of November. Bringing together a number of officials from the Scottish Government, the European Commission representation in Edinburgh, the Consul-General of Ireland in Scotland, and representatives from the British-Irish Council and Scottish Parliament, the seminar considered […]
Read MoreCross-Border Functional Regions: Perspectives from Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scandinavia
The Centre for Cross Border Studies, the Sweden-Norway INTERREG Programme and the SEUPB organised a visit by a delegation of close to 30 local and regional politicians from the Norway-Sweden border region. As part of the programme the Swedish and Norwegian representatives took part in a policy seminar and discussion in Armagh’s Market Place Theatre […]
Read MoreCCBS Deputy Director gives evidence to House of Lords Committee
CCBS Deputy Director, Anthony Soares, appeared before the House of Lords EU Home Affairs Sub-Committee to give evidence to its inquiry on Brexit and reciprocal healthcare arrangements. The inquiry’s overall focus is on the reciprocal healthcare implications of Brexit for UK citizens travelling, living and/or working in the rest of the EU, and for EU […]
Read MoreCastle Talks on Cross-Border Cooperation: Conflict and Cooperation at EU Borders
CCBS Director Ruth Taillon was one of the speakers at this year’s Castle Talks, hosted by the University of Strasbourg, the CEPA Foundation, Dynamiques Européennes and TEIN in Strasbourg on 8-10 November. The Ireland/Northern Ireland border was – with the Catalan Space – one of the featured case studies. Following a keynote from Mr Karl-Heinz […]
Read MoreGood Practice in Cross-Border Cooperation in the Upper Rhine Region
As one of the partners in the TEIN – Platform for Cross-Border Dialogue project (funded by the INTERREG V-A Czech Republic – Poland within the Micro-Project Fund of Cieszyn Silesia Euroregion), CCBS Director Ruth Taillon was in Kehl, Germany 7-8 November to participate in the second of three international study visits. The study visit included […]
Read MoreThe Centre for Cross Border Studies begins a new Briefing Paper Series on ‘Brexit and UK-Ireland border’.
The Centre for Cross Border Studies begins a new Briefing Paper Series on ‘Brexit and UK-Ireland border’. The series consists of five papers, to be published on our website in the next few months, and develops an overview of the likely effects of Brexit on the future of the UK-Ireland land border. The present publication […]
Read MoreCCBS Evidence included in latest report on the border by the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Evidence provided by the Centre for Cross Border Studies has been included in a report published today by the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee following its inquiry into Brexit and the Northern Ireland-Ireland border. Based on the information received from CCBS and a range of other experts, the Committee concluded that there is […]
Read MoreCCBS in Brussels
On the 29th of October CCBS Director, Ruth Taillon, and Deputy Director, Anthony Soares, met with officials of the European Commission’s Article 50 Task Force as part of a delegation that included the Children’s Law Centre, Unison, and Professor Chris McCrudden of Queen’s University Belfast. While the overall focus of the meeting was to advocate […]
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