Research: 10 years on from the Brexit referendum

A report by our Director, Anthony Soares, serves as a record of how the Centre approached the June 2016 referendum and what its approach has been in the aftermath of the result.

Like many others, the Centre is still managing the uncertainties of a continually evolving post-Brexit landscape.

As an organisation whose establishment in September 1999 was inspired by how North-South and East-West cooperation and relations were at the heart of the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement, the question being asked of the UK electorate was of huge relevance to the team at the CCBC.

The report brings together excerpts from a number of key documents published by the Centre.

It traces our own journey and how we sought to shine a light on the importance of taking cross-border cooperation and relations into account in the debates in the run-up to the referendum and in the negotiations on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU that followed.

It contains extracts from both research briefings and responses to various relevant parliamentary inquiries.

Anthony outlines the interventions in chronological order within the context of what was happening in the Brexit process each year – and their relevance to cross-border cooperation and relations.

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