Just a little Brexit?: ‘Alternative (customs) arrangements’ and the Withdrawal Agreement. CEPS Policy Insights No 2019-13/ September 2019

Pelkmans, Jacques (2019) Just a little Brexit?: ‘Alternative (customs) arrangements’ and the Withdrawal Agreement. CEPS Policy Insights No 2019-13/ September 2019. [Policy Paper]

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Abstract

With the five-week closure of the UK Parliament, the highly entertaining sessions of the House of Commons have been adjourned. Could this artificial breathing space provide a realistic opportunity to deliver the now infamous ‘alternative customs arrangements’, making the backstop unnecessary? And without the backstop, could the Withdrawal Agreement be ratified soon, opening at long last the way to genuine negotiations about the treaty on the future relations between the UK and the EU-27 (based on the Political Declaration, a kind of MoU on these negotiations)?

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