brexit

^{Stephen C. Meyer
May 16, 2019
Foreign Policy}

The Best Brexit Strategy is to Leave First, and Then Deal

_{Stephen C. Meyer
May 16, 2019
Foreign Policy}

Last month, the European Union’s Council of Ministers voted to allow Britain another extension in its Brexit deliberations. Despite Prime Minister Theresa May’s “success” in negotiating this extension, her Conservative Party recently experienced massive losses in local council elections with more than 1,300 Conservative councillors losing their seats. Since then, May’s party has tanked further in opinion polls. One recent poll has only 11 percent of the electorate supporting Conservative candidates in the upcoming May 23 elections for the European Parliament. Three years after voting to leave the European Union (EU), British voters must now suffer the indignity of voting to send representatives to a body they no longer wish to represent them. Read More ›

President Donald Trump greets British Prime Minister Theresa May upon her arrival, Friday, Jan. 27, 2017, to the West Wing entrance of the White House in Washington, D.C. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

^{Stephen C. Meyer
April 5, 2019
Economics, Foreign Policy}

How Theresa May Can Get a Better Brexit Deal — and How Trump Can Help

_{Stephen C. Meyer
April 5, 2019
Economics, Foreign Policy}

Last week, British prime minister Theresa May failed for a third time to secure a majority in Parliament for her Brexit deal. Now she faces an ever-narrowing set of options. ... Yet, as she must realize, delay by itself offers no hope of a fundamental change in the dynamics of the negotiation and, therefore, no realistic hope of resolving the political crisis now engulfing Britain. Read More ›

^{Discovery Institute
June 28, 2016
Discovery Institute, Economics}

Stephen Meyer on Brexit: Markets Have Nothing to Fear

_{Discovery Institute
June 28, 2016
Discovery Institute, Economics}

At National Review, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Stephen Meyer looks at Brexit and the ensuing panic in the financial markets. His analysis: there is nothing to fear. Meyer writes: ”an increasingly democratic Britain acting once again in accord with its own national interests will likely result in more, not less, free trade and greater economic freedom — not only for Britain but also for its key trading partners, including the United States. Economic growth will be the inevitable result.” You can read Meyer’s article, Goodbye, EU-Imposed Regulation, at the National Review website.

^{Stephen C. Meyer
June 20, 2016
Foreign Policy}

The EU Threatens America and Britain’s Alliance. Brexit Could Save It.

_{Stephen C. Meyer
June 20, 2016
Foreign Policy}

The close cooperative and beneficial alliance between the United States and the United Kingdom is now threatened in a way that it has not been since Churchill and Roosevelt stood together in the sunshine of the North Atlantic in 1941. What menaces this alliance? Read More ›

^{Stephen C. Meyer
June 16, 2016
Foreign Policy}

The European Union: An Un-Democratic Leviathan That Britain Might Just Escape

_{Stephen C. Meyer
June 16, 2016
Foreign Policy}

America’s closest ally, Great Britain, stands on the brink of a profound decision, one that could determine whether it remains the free, prosperous democracy that has worked closely with the United States since World War II, or goes on morphing into something much smaller and sadder. Read More ›