Nettsider med emneord «Brexit»
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Could the 'Norway model' work for the UK post-Brexit? Do EU agencies threaten the EEA agreement? These were topics of discussion when policy-makers and ARENA researchers met during Arendalsuka 2018.
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A research group at ARENA Centre for European Studies headed by Prof. John Erik Fossum has succeeded in a highly competitive bid for international research funding. ARENA is celebrating the success.
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In this blog post, I draw on Norwegian experiences in arguing that there should be a second referendum on Brexit.
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In this guest blog post, professor Christopher Lord of ARENA gives an alternative take on how to understand the struggle behind the Brexit negotiations.
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ARENA director Erik Oddvar Eriksen explains on the LSE Brexit blog that for the UK, the "Norway option" would amount to self-inflicted subservience to the EU.
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The former Norwegian minister of EEA and EU Affairs, Marit Berger Røsland, will debate Brexit and 'the Norway model' with leading EU researchers from ARENA.
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If the EU admits that it is a federation, the Union might be better able to strike the right balance between the supranational and national levels. Professor John Erik Fossum wants to revive the controversial concept.
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European decision-makers point to flexible relationships with the EU as a way to maintain their countries’ independence and autonomy. New research from ARENA suggests that political differentiation might in fact lead to the opposite, which does not bode well for the UK after Brexit.
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How do we arrange relations between EU members and non-member democracies in ways that secure core standards of democratic legitimacy? Will Brexit aggravate this difficulty?
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By using concepts of historic responsibility, Christopher Lord discusses whether decisions member states take together can constrain how any one of them can justifiably leave the EU in the article published in the Journal of European Integration.
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Is Brexit a wicked problem? John Erik Fossum is published in European Policy Analysis with an article on how the wicked problem framework can be improved by incorporating the problem of political order.
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Cathrine Holst has contributed with a chapter in the new volume Gender and Queer Perspectives on Brexit on how Norway as a non-member is affected by - and affects - EU gender equality policy.
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Resul Umit and Katrin Auel (IHS, Vienna) have published a new article in Journal of Contemporary European Studies, analysing the vote on the 'European Union (Notice of Withdrawal) Bill' in the House of Commons.
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Differensiering og fleksible relasjoner med EU blir ofte oppfattet å være et uttrykk for landenes uavhengighet og autonomi. Ny forskning fra ARENA tyder på at det kan være stikk motsatt, noe som lover dårlig for britene etter Brexit.
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Hvis EU innrømmer at det er en føderasjon, kan det bli lettere å finne balansen mellom det overnasjonale og nasjonale nivået. Professor John Erik Fossum ønsker å gjenopplive det kontroversielle begrepet.
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Hvordan kan vi organisere relasjonene mellom EUs medlemsland og ikke-medlemmer på en måte som sikrer demokratisk legitimitet? Vil Brexit gjøre dette enda vanskeligere?
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ARENA er partner i PELEEA, et Jean Monnet-nettverk som studerer konsekvensene av Brexit for Det europeiske økonomiske samarbeidsområdet (EØS).
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Ine Eriksen Søreide talte om norsk europapolitikk og et europeisk verdifellesskap under sterkt press da hun gjestet Blindern i anledning ARENA-forelesningen 2018.