Retaining influence in Europe after Brexit
b'In 2016, the-then foreign secretary Boris Johnson said \\u201cwhile the UK is leaving the EU, it is not leaving Europe\\u201d. The UK and the EU will still need to deal with shared problems such as climate change and terrorism. The UK will also want to shape EU rules on data and health and safety standards that will continue to affect it after Brexit.\\n\\nBut the UK will find it much harder to do so once it is no longer \\u2018in the room\\u2019. In this session, speakers\\xa0explored how the UK must adapt the ways it engages the EU and why failing to do so could damage its long-term interests.\\n\\nOur panel:\\n\\nNicole Sykes, head of EU negotiations at the Confederation of British Industry\\nJoe Owen, programme director at the Institute for Government\\nGeorgina Wright, senior researcher at the Institute for Government\\nAlex Stojanovic, researcher at the Institute for Government\\nThe event was chaired by Jill Rutter, senior fellow at the Institute for Government.\\n\\nThere was\\xa0an opportunity for questions from the audience.'