
Negotiations & process
This page collates publications, blog posts, video interviews, media commentary related to the strategies and process of negotiating Brexit.

Opinion and thoughts
Read the latest opinion piece on this page:
Piet Eeckhout - The EU should be concerned about the UK’s plans to rule out an extension to the transition period

Research and expertise
Discover a major piece of research on this topic:
Dr Benjamin Martill and Dr Uta Staiger - Negotiating Brexit: Lessons from the first round for the UK side

Projects and activities
Learn about a recent UCL project conducted on this theme:
Dr Benjamin Martill and Dr Uta Staiger - Cultures of Negotiation: Explaining Britain’s hard bargaining in the Brexit negotiations
Content
Brexit's never-ending endgame: UK, EU extend talks as both sides try to clinch deal
Uta Staiger (UCL European Institute)
Type: Media appearance, The Debate (France24)
Date: 15/12/2020
Making Sense of the Brexit Negotiations
Professor Piet Eeckhout (UCL Laws)
Type: Media appearance, Bloomberg Markets: European Open
Date: 14/12/2020
Hard Bargaining Dies Hard
Benjamin Martill
Type: Blog (LSE Politics and Policy, UCL Europe Blog)
Date: 21/10/2020
Bounded rationality and the Brexit negotiations: why Britain failed to understand the EU
Filipa Figueira and Benjamin Martill
Type: Article, Journal of European Public Policy
Date: 19/08/2020
Negotiating Brexit: The Cultural Sources of British Hard Bargaining
Benjamin Martill and Uta Staiger
Type: Article, Journal of Common Market Studies
Date: 12/05/2020
Boris Johnson as a model of rational choice? Understanding the PM’s Brexit strategy
Filipa Figueira (UCL SSEES)
Type: Blog (UCL Europe Blog)
Date: 17/02/2020
We are far from out of the Brexit woods
Professor Ronan McCrea (UCL Laws)
Type: Op-ed (Irish Times)
Date: 10/02/2020
UCL holds Brexit panel with EU adviser Stefaan De Rynck
UCL Laws
Type: Event
Date: 28/01/2020
Brexit - What Next? Panel discussion and Q&A
UCL Laws
Type: Event recording (Video)
Date: January 2020
The EU should be concerned about the UK’s plans to rule out an extension to the transition period
Professor Piet Eeckhout (UCL Laws)
Type: Blog
Date: 19/12/2019
The hostile environment, Brexit, and ‘reactive‐’ or ‘protective transnationalism’
Victoria Redclift (UCL Institute of Education) and Fatima Rajina (SOAS)
Type: Article, Global Networks
Date: 08/12/2019
A country of purists: which lays bare the death of any compromise on Brexit
Professor Christina Pagel (UCL CORU) and Christabel Cooper
Type: Commentary (UK in a Changing Europe)
Date: 17/06/2019
Extending Article 50: Legal and Political Considerations
Oliver Patel and Clément Leroy (UCL European Institute)
Type: analysis
Date: 04/2019
Legal opinion - Article 50 extension and the European Parliament elections
Professor Piet Eeckhout (UCL Laws)
Type: Opinion
Date: 04/2019
Uta Staiger on Catalan TV3
Dr Uta Staiger (UCL European Institute)
Type: Interview (in catalan)
Date: 14/04/2019
Professor Piet Eeckhout discusses extending Article 50 on the Today programme
Professor Piet Eeckhout (UCL Laws)
Type: Audio
Date: 01/02/2019
Negotiating Brexit: Lessons from the first round for the UK side
Dr Benjamin Martill and Dr Uta Staiger
Type: Policy Brief, Dahrendorf Forum IV
Date: 07/12/2018
How Come Such A Weak Deal?
Professor Albert Weale (UCL Political Science)
Type: Blog
Date: 29/11/2018
Cultures of Negotiation: Explaining Britain’s hard bargaining in the Brexit negotiations
Dr Benjamin Martill and Dr Uta Staiger
Type: Working paper, Dahrendorf Forum IV
Date: 14/09/2018
Revoking Article 50: a view from the inside
Professor Piet Eeckhout (UCL Laws)
Type: Video
Date: 13/12/2018
Brexit: is it possible to stop it?
Oliver Patel (UCL European Institute)
Type: Article, The Conversation
Date: 06/12/2018
Although fraught with obstacles, a Brexit Deal is still on the cards
Oliver Patel (UCL European Institute)
Type: Article, HuffPost
Date: 26/09/2018
The Prime Minister should replace the negotiating team and follow Barnier's tough-talking example
Professor Martyn Rady (UCL SSEES)
Type: Blog, Conservative Home
Date: February 2018
Article 50 TEU: Secrets and Lies [Video]
Professor Piet Eeckhout (UCL Laws)
Type: Video, UCL TV
Date: 29/03/2017
Now that Article 50 has been triggered, reality will start to bite
Oliver Patel (UCL European Institute)
Type: Blog, UCL Brexit Blog
Date: 29/03/2017
Brexit and its potential consequences for British foreign policy
Dr Nicholas Wright (UCL Political Science)
Type: Blog, UCL Brexit Blog
Date: 13/12/2017
A European Perspective on Anglo-Scottish Cross Border Cooperation: Lessons from EU-funded Territorial Cooperation Programmes
Dr Claire Colomb (The Bartlett School of Planning)
Type: Academic paper, Journal of Borderlands Studies
Date: 24/04/2017
EU Citizens as Bargaining Chips
Dr Virgina Mantouvalou (UCL Laws)
Type: Blog, UK Constitutional Law Association
Date: 14/07/2016