{"id":253213,"date":"2025-07-10T10:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253213\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T10:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T10:19:10","slug":"nine-years-on-lessons-learned-from-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/253213\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine years on, lessons learned from Brexit"},"content":{"rendered":"

The greatest winner of Brexit<\/a> has been Nigel Farage<\/a>. Almost everyone else are on the losing side, it seems. This political maneuver was conceived as a communications play and not as a policy, and Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) rector Misha Glenny evaluates it as a grave mistake on this episode of Standard Time.<\/p>\n

Glenny reminds that after the vote was held of 23rd of June 2016 and 51,89% voted<\/a> for leaving the EU, the following day Brits started to frantically google <\/a>\u00a0questions like \u201cWhat does it mean to leave the EU\u201d and \u201cWhat is the EU\u201d.<\/p>\n

Brexit has taken down five prime ministers so far, and a since a Labour government took the baton from the long-time ruling conservatives, they are navigating ever closer to EU and are making clear attempts to salvage continental relations. And for good reason: as a global exception, the UK now operates in a bit of a blind spot, without sufficient international alliances with its neighbours, reminds international law expert Roos Fransen in this discussion.<\/p>\n

It would be, however, foolish, to blame Brexit on the individual voters, political analyst Luke Cooper says, as it seems dark money had a significant\u00a0 role to play. The National Crime Agency<\/a> started investigating Arron Banks, the biggest Brexit Donor, and others linked to the Leave campaign for possible criminal activity during the Brexit referendum. <\/p>\n

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This happened after the Electoral Commission found reason to believe that Banks was not the real source of the \u00a38 million he gave to pro-Brexit groups. The investigation began after reports<\/a> from openDemocracy and others questioned<\/a> how Banks could afford to be the biggest political donor in UK history.<\/p>\n

Looking into the future<\/strong><\/p>\n

Five years have passed since the separation, and today the UK\u2019s fate is much less certain: Donald Trump\u2019s erratic and arbitrary foreign policy has shaken up the economic world order, which has shown the importance of a United Europe. Will this change the UK\u2019s relationship with the EU member states?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s guests discuss the scenarios and the lessons learnt.<\/p>\n

Guests<\/p>\n

Roos Fransen<\/strong> is a Dutch researcher focusing on European and International Law at the University of Vienna. Her work spans a broad range, including the work of the European Union.<\/p>\n

Misha Glenny<\/strong> is the Rector of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna, one of Austria\u2019s leading advanced research institutes. A long-time BBC Central Europe Correspondent, he covered the revolutions in Eastern Europe and the wars in the former Yugoslavia. Misha is a sought-after speaker on the geo-politics of cyber security and organised crime.<\/p>\n

Luke Cooper<\/strong> is an academic at the LSE and a co-host of the Another Europe podcast. His latest book, Authoritarian Contagion; the Global Threat to Democracy, situated the politics of Brexit and Trump in the global resurgence of far right nationalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Creative team<\/p>\n

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Merve Akyel\u00a0 art director, Eurozine
Szilvia Pint\u00e9r producer
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Zs\u00f3fia Gabriella Papp digital producer<\/p>\n

Management<\/p>\n

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Video Crew: Okto TV<\/p>\n

Senad Hergi\u0107, producer
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Clemens Schmiedbauer, video recording
Richard Brusek, sound recording<\/p>\n

Postproduction<\/p>\n

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D\u00e1niel Nagy dialogue editor<\/p>\n

Art<\/p>\n

Victor Maria Lima animation
Crypt-of-Insomnia theme music<\/p>\n

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