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Research Date 28 Sep 2016 EU tuition fees post-Brexit: feast or famine? In a week when a UK university, Oxford, was crowned the best in the world, it’s worth reminding ourselves that Brexit gives the British higher education sector a lot to... Read more
Research Date 26 Sep 2016 Support for outward investment: a questionable solution to a misdiagnosed problem International Trade Secretary Liam Fox slipped out an important change in policy earlier this month when he told Conservative MPs that from now on the government would give the same... Read more
Research Date 26 Sep 2016 Brexit and the audio-visual sector – facing up to life outside the single market As Whitehall limbers up for the UK’s exit negotiations from the European Union by establishing new departments and recruiting new staff, it will be some time before the government reaches... Read more
Research Date 23 Sep 2016 Will the EU's new cybersecurity law prevent another Yahoo? The data security world has been rocked by Yahoo’s revelation that it had been the victim of a “state sponsored” hack leading to the exposure of 500 million user accounts... Read more
Research Date 22 Sep 2016 United Russia victory as a silver bullet for PM Medvedev The pro-Kremlin United Russia party secured a supermajority of 76% of the seats in the State Duma elections earlier this week. The result reflected changes to the boundaries (merging rural... Read more
Research Date 20 Sep 2016 EU-UK (Un) Free Trade Agreement One of the consistent themes of the UK referendum campaign on EU membership was just how hard it would be to re-establish trading terms between the two sides if the... Read more
Research Date 16 Sep 2016 Investors raising the bar for ESG disclosures Everyday it seems there is another responsible investment framework, or new updates to comply with. Investors have driven the creation of these frameworks – now they need to drive their... Read more
Research Date 16 Sep 2016 Why Britain’s attitude to foreign inward investment has not yet gone nuclear In the end, the energy wonks were disappointed. Weeks of speculation about Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant were ended by the go-ahead for a deal which looks remarkably similar... Read more
Report Date 9 Sep 2016 The future of UK trade policy: the case for regulatory diplomacy It is widely accepted that services, and financial services in particular, are a key comparative advantage of the UK. A full quarter of UK services exports are financial or insurance... Read more
Research Date 7 Sep 2016 Should the UK seek Customs Union with the EU? It was interesting to watch the new UK Secretary of State for Exiting the EU David Davis face-off for the first time with the British Parliament this week. As expected... Read more
Report Date 7 Sep 2016 Europe and Brexit As part of Global Counsel's collaboration with DLD in the inaugural DLDeurope event in Brussels, we have put together a note looking at some of the implications of Brexit on... Read more
Research Date 6 Sep 2016 Japan’s three messages for Britain on Brexit As a £400bn investor in the British economy, the Japanese deserve the attention of the UK Government on the question of how Brexit is handled. The economic relationship with Tokyo... Read more
Research Date 2 Sep 2016 Telco competition and consolidation: Vestager squares the circle Yesterday brought a remarkable turn-around in the fortunes of Hutchison and its plans to acquire greater market share in Europe’s mobile markets, only months after its acquisition of Telefonica’s O2... Read more
Research Date 18 Aug 2016 Litmus test: the UK obesity strategy and government intervention On school exam results day, in mid-August, while politicians relax on holiday and the Olympic Games dominates headlines, the UK Government has published its long-awaited strategy for tackling childhood obesity... Read more
Research Date 18 Aug 2016 Staying on the plane Alok Sharma’s first visit to China this week as the UK’s new Minister for Asia and the Pacific has been somewhat overshadowed by tensions over the Hinkley point investment. Sharma... Read more
Report Date 15 Aug 2016 British trade policy after Brexit: ruthless prioritisation required UK trade policy will require ruthless prioritisation if scarce diplomatic resources are to be deployed to the best possible effect. We provide advice based on a series of metrics. The... Read more
Report Date 5 Aug 2016 UK energy policy and Brexit Brexit has the potential to increase significantly the UK’s autonomy in making energy and climate change policy. How much will largely depend on the prior question of what, if any... Read more
Report Date 1 Aug 2016 The exit option: How contagious could Brexit be? The UK referendum vote on leaving the EU is reverberating across EU politics in a range of ways. Economic and market volatility has brought to the boil a simmering banking... Read more