Written by Marcin Grajewski,
The United Kingdom is preparing to meet the deadline it has set itself of end-March 2017 for launching the formal procedure to leave the European Union. Following a UK Supreme Court ruling, triggering Article 50 of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty now requires that the UK Parliament pass legislation on the matter, a process which is now under way.
Prime Minister Theresa May’s speech at Lancaster House on Brexit on 17 January and the UK government’s subsequent White Paper were seen by analysts as anticipating a complicated set of negotiations between the UK and the EU, with the UK in effect prioritising control of migration over its continued membership of the single market.
This note offers links to recent commentaries and reports published by major international think tanks on the UK’s plans to leave the EU. More studies on issues raised by the vote can be found in a previous edition of ‘What Think Tanks are thinking’ in October 2016.

Devolved external affairs: The impact of Brexit
Chatham House, February 2017
Brexit: The launch of Article 50
European Policy Centre, February 2017
After Brexit: It’s a brave new world
Centre for European Policy Studies, February 2017
Making the best of Brexit for the EU27 financial system
Bruegel, February 2017
Questionable immigration claims in the Brexit white paper
Bruegel, February 2017
A well-managed Brexit is a priority for the entire EU
Centre for European Policy Studies, February 2017
Brexit: Next steps of UK’s withdrawal from the EU
House of Commons Library, February 2017
A year full of challenges (and opportunities) for the EU
Atlantic Council, February 2017
Parliamentarians in Brexit talks: Bulls in a china shop?
Centre for European Reform, February 2017
Brexit, a game of deal or no deal
Carnegie Europe, February 2017
The €60 billion Brexit bill: How to disentangle Britain from the EU budget
Centre for European Reform, February 2017
The view from Brussels: If Britain gets a bad deal, the EU also loses
Open Europe, February 2017
Theresa May sur une voie étroite
Institut Thomas More, February 2017
The process of Brexit: What comes next?
European Institute, UCL Constitution Unit, February 2017
Brexit drama in three acts: Negotiation phases & scenarios
Jacques Delors Institute Berlin, January 2017
Is Brexit an opportunity to reform the European Parliament?
Bruegel, January 2017
Europe’s post-Brexit retrenchment
Egmont, January 2017
The debate over Brexit
Council on Foreign Relations, January 2017
L’Europe après le Brexit: Positions et perspectives allemandes
Institut français des relations internationales, January 2017
May’s Brexit will be both hard and risky
Peterson Institute for International Economics, January 2017
Europe is now Britain’s essential relationship
Chatham House, January 2017
The energy sector implications of Brexit
Institut français des relations internationales, January 2017
Theresa May’s Brexit Speech of 17 January 2017: Decoding its clarity and ambiguity
Centre for European Policy Studies, January 2017
What does Theresa May’s speech tell us about how Britain will leave the EU
Centre for European Reform, January 2017
What if Mrs May had a strategy for Brexit, and her divided opponents had not?
Egmont, January 2017
What free movement means to Europe and why it matters to Britain
Centre for European Reform, January 2017
Les Européens et les conséquences du Brexit
Fondation Robert Schuman, January 2017
Brexit and the EU budget: Threat or opportunity?
Jacques Delors Institute Berlin, Bertelsmann Stiftung, January 2017
Will Brexit revive the Franco-German engine?
European Policy Centre, January 2017
Brexit and the UK creative industry
Bruegel, January 2017
Europeans see more cakery on Brexit
European Council on Foreign Relations, January 2017
European defence after Brexit: Flying on one engine?
Egmont, January 2017
Brexit arithmetics
European Council on Foreign Relations, January 2017
What should be Europe’s post-Brexit plan?
Friends of Europe, January 2017
British business strategy, EU Social and Employment Policy and the emerging politics of Brexit
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, January 2017
German firms relaxed in view of upcoming Brexit
Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, December 2016
What will happen with the capital markets union after Brexit?
Jacques Delors Institute Berlin, December 2016
European Union Financial Regulation, Banking Union, Capital Markets Union and the UK
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, January 2017
Scotland knows what it wants with the EU, while London seems still not to know
Centre for European Policy Studies, December 2016
Brexit and free movement of people
Institute of International and European Affairs, December 2016
Brexit and Article 50 of TEU: A constitutional reading
UCL European Institute, December 2016
Brexit and Europe’s future: A game theoretical approach
Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, December 2016
What next after Brexit? Considerations regarding the future relationship between the EU and the UK
Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln, December 2016
Six months on, Brexit is shaking up British electoral politics
Chatham House, December 2016
What Brexit and austerity tell us about economics, policy and the media
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, December 2016
EU economic governance after Brexit: Governing a disintegrating Europe
Foundation for European Progressive Studies, Policy Network, Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, November 2016
Increasingly apart: Post-crisis growth trajectories in the UK and eurozone
Chatham House, November 2016
Getting Brussels right: “Best practice” for City firms in a post-referendum EU
Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, December 2016
Brexit and its aftermath: Impact and policy recommendations for Asia
S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, December 2016
A European “special relationship”: Guiding principles, interests and options for the EU-27 in the Brexit talks
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, November 2016
Policy uncertainty and international financial markets: The case of Brexit
Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2016
Scotland’s choice: Brexit with the UK, independence, or a special deal?
Friends of Europe, November 2016
Free to move: The costs and consequences of restrictions on migration
Institute of Economic Affairs, November 2016
EU external action and Brexit: Relaunch and reconnect
Jacques Delors Institute Berlin, November 2016
Invest, devolve, liberate: A new economic policy in the light of Brexit
Demos, November 2016
Mapping member states’ stances in a post-Brexit European Union
Instituto Affari Internazionali, November 2016
Brexit and the distribution of power in the Council of the EU
Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2016
Brexit and social security in the EU
Centre for European Policy Studies, November 2016
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