The Centre for Cross Border Studies has published a response to the UK Government’s position paper ‘Northern Ireland and Ireland.’ Please click on the link below to view the response. CCBS Response to the UK Govt position paper
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Centre for Cross Border Studies Statement on UK Government’s Position Paper on Northern Ireland and Ireland
The Centre for Cross Border Studies issues summary statement on the UK Government’s position paper on Northern Ireland and Ireland to be considered during the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. Copy of statement
Read MoreCCBS Brexit Blog Update Issue 1
Centre for Cross Border Studies Deputy Director Anthony Soares gives a brief Brexit update from the team’s weekly meeting below. The island of Ireland is most at risk from the UK’s decision to leave the EU and ‘flexible and imaginative solutions’ will be needed. CCBS has published its own proposal through its recent Briefing Paper which […]
Read MoreThe Centre for Crossborder Studies Publishes an Update of its Briefing Paper on ‘Brexit and Economic Development’
In the run-up to the United Kingdom’s referendum on membership of the European Union in June 2016, the Centre for Cross Border Studies (CCBS) and Co-operation Ireland published a series of five briefing papers. These papers aimed to inform debate by exploring the potential impacts of an eventual Brexit on Northern Ireland and North-South relations. […]
Read MoreCCBS Report: The negotiations for the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union
This report evaluates how relations within the island of Ireland, and between the island of Ireland and Great Britain are framed within the approaches to the negotiations being taken by the main players involved, and suggests how to safeguard North-South and East-West relations in the post-Brexit context using the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement as a […]
Read MoreCCBS Board Member Katy Hayward publishes ‘The Irish Border as a Customs Frontier after Brexit’
When the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, the status of its land border with the Republic of Ireland will inevitably change. The steady growth of trade and networks across this contested border over the past two decades have been largely attributable to their common EU membership and the peace process they have supported in […]
Read MoreBrexit: Irish border one of the top EU priorities
Speaking to the Economic and Social Committee in Brussels this morning, the EU’s chief negotiator on Brexit, Michel Barnier, made the following points of special interest here in Ireland. He reiterated the primacy of the Irish border issue as one of the top EU priorities: “The best way of reaching an agreement is to create […]
Read MoreThe Centre for Cross Border Studies publishes Brexit Briefing Paper ‘Flexible and Imaginative solutions’
This Briefing Paper considers the ‘Flexible and Imaginative solutions’ which may have to be explored post-Brexit and recommends that the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement should become a framework enabling the post-Brexit flow of people, goods and services between the two jurisdictions on the island of Ireland, and between the island of Ireland and Great Britain, avoiding the […]
Read MoreREVISED Solution Irish Border Problem 2 July 2017
Please click on the link below to download a copy of ‘A Solution to the Problem of a ‘Hard’ Irish Border: The island’s post-Brexit borders’ by James Anderson, Queen’s University Belfast. REVISED Solution Irish Border Problem pdf 2 July
Read MoreSeanad Special Select Committee on Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union publishes ‘Brexit: Implications and Potential Solutions’
The Seanad Special Select Committee on Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union has today published ‘Brexit: Implications and Potential Solutions’ Chair of the Seanad Special Select Committee said in his opening stsatement that “Put simply, for Ireland, the decision of the people of the UK to vote to withdraw from the EU is […]
Read MoreThe United Kingdom’s Exit from the European Union: Safeguarding the Position of EU Citizens Living in the UK and UK Nationals Living in the EU
The British Government has released a 15-page document outlining the detail of the UK’s offer to EU citizens. The paper published as Theresa May briefed MPs on the outcome of Friday’s EU summit on 26th June 2017. Safeguarding EU Citizens 260617
Read MoreCCBS Director interviewed by EuroNews: “Peace Process In Northern Ireland Could Well Be At Risk”
Centre for Cross Border Studies Direct Ruth Taillon was interviewed by EuroNews on the 23rd June 2017 in Belfast. In the interview, Ms Taillon gave a background of the Peace Process and the effect which Brexit may have on it. Ms Taillon underlined the dangers of undermining the Good Friday agreement and threat to community relations […]
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