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POLICY AND PRACTICE - Was Brexit a British aberration?

Published: Oct. 16, 2020, 8:44 a.m.

Vernon Bogdanor\u2019s latest book, Britain and Europe in a Troubled World, considers the motivations which lay behind Brexit, and asks how widespread they are in the rest of Europe.\xa0 Has the elitism in the original European project\xa0become a handicap to progress? How\xa0can \u2018ever closer union\u2019 be achieved by popular consent amongst 27 highly diverse member states? Is it possible for the member states to consider the interests of Europe as a whole? To discuss these questions he is joined by Dr Julie Smith, Reader in European Politics at Cambridge\xa0and member of the House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee, and Agata Gosty\u0144ska-Jakubowska, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Reform, Brussels.