In light of the current public health crisis relating to Covid-19, and as part of the Centre for Cross Border Studies’ ongoing research into the impact of the virus on the island of Ireland and the connections between the two jurisdictions, this Briefing Paper examines the pandemic’s effect on cross-border traffic flows. This analysis uses […]
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Briefing Paper: The Cross-Border Further Education and Higher Education Cluster for the North West City Region
This Briefing Paper offers an overview of the development of the Cross-Border FE HE Cluster for the North West City Region, setting it within its historical context in terms of previous cross-border collaboration in the region, and in terms of its alignment with more recent strategic and political developments. Authored by Paul Hannigan, John Andy […]
Read MoreBriefing Paper: Overview of Covid-19 Business Support Schemes for Northern Ireland (NI) and the Republic of Ireland (RoI)
In light of the current public health crisis relating to Covid-19, and as part of the Centre for Cross Border Studies’ ongoing research into the impact of the virus on the island of Ireland and the connections between the two jurisdictions, this Briefing Paper outlines the main ranges of supports that have been introduced to […]
Read MoreBriefing Paper: The impacts of COVID-19 on cross-border tourism on the island of Ireland: A snapshot
In light of the current public health crisis relating to Covid-19, and as part of the Centre for Cross Border Studies’ ongoing research into the impact of the virus on the island of Ireland and the connections between the two jurisdictions, this Briefing Paper briefly examines the pandemic’s effect on all-island tourism. In order to […]
Read MoreBriefing Paper: Approaches to the COVID-19 Pandemic: Bordering on (non-) cooperation
This Briefing Paper is intended to offer some initial considerations on the extent to which existing or new channels of cross-border cooperation have been successfully activated in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, which first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Beginning with an overview of the collaborative tendencies observable on […]
Read MoreThe need for regulatory cross-border territorial impact assessment: Challenges at the Ireland-Northern Ireland border
The purpose of this Briefing Paper is to highlight the urgent need for policy-makers, decision-makers and legislators to assess the impact of a proposed policy, regulation, strategy or law, for example, on their jurisdiction’s borders, and to assess how their implementation has affected the socio-economic conditions of citizens in a border region.1 To undertake such […]
Read MoreBriefing Paper: The UK Government’s proposals for an amended Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland
The Centre for Cross Border Studies has published a Briefing Paper setting out its assessment of the UK Government’s latest proposals to amend the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, and the extent to which they are compatible with the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and avoid the creation of new borders within or between these islands as the […]
Read MoreBriefing Paper: The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and (post-Brexit) cross-border environmental cooperation
This Briefing Paper, which forms part of the Centre for Cross Border Studies’ ongoing work into the potential consequences of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union for North-South and cross-border cooperation, has been prompted by the April 2019 publication of an important report commissioned by the Environmental Pillar in conjunction with Northern Ireland Environment […]
Read MoreBriefing Paper 5: The Impact of Brexit on Devolution in Northern Ireland
This is the fifth and final paper from our Briefing Paper Series on Brexit and the UK-Ireland Border. It considers the questions that the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union raises for devolution in Northern Ireland. Such questions are fundamental for the future of regional and UK governance as a whole. Moreover, devolution in […]
Read MoreCentre for Cross Border Studies Statement on draft Agreement on the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Following the publication on the 14th of November of the draft Agreement on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, and in light of its Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, the Centre for Cross Border Studies has published its response. CCBS Statement on draft EU Withdrawal Agreement
Read MoreStrengthening the Partnership Principle in Border Regions: For greater cross-border cooperation
The European Commission’s White Paper on the Future of Europe prompted renewed discussion about the future of cohesion policy and its partnership principle. In the current debates there is widespread agreement that the partnership principle must be further improved. In the view of the Centre for Cross Border Studies, the required improvement of the partnership […]
Read MoreBriefing Paper ‘The Belfast/Good Friday Agreement and the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU’
The fourth Briefing Paper in our “Brexit and the Border” series is now out. It questions the extent to which the negotiations over the UK’s withdrawal from the EU have been able to accommodate all of the dimensions encompassed by the 1998 Belfast/Good Friday Agreement, and suggests that approaches to the negotiations have been flawed […]
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