by Whitehouse Communications | 29 Jan 2021 | Brexit, European Union
On Sunday 31st January 2021, a year will have passed since ‘Brexit Day’, the beginning of the eleven-month long transition period in which the UK and EU would negotiate for a trade deal to begin in 2021. At 11pm, British time, of 31st January 2020, the UK officially...
by Whitehouse Communications | 2 Jan 2021 | Brexit, Communications, European Union, PR and Media Relations
Brexit certainly doesn’t mean that the influence of British firms with the institutions of the European Union is reduced, indeed, by the use of political consultants, political lobbyists, public affairs consultants and trade associations, that influence can actually...
by Whitehouse Communications | 26 Oct 2020 | European Union
During the annual State of the Union address last month, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave a stark warning of the EU’s growing diplomatic distance to Turkey, a country which up to 2016 had been in decade-long discussions to join the bloc. In...
by Whitehouse Communications | 20 May 2020 | Brexit, European Union, Food & Drink
It came through dripping, leak by leak, but it’s finally out and there’s no turning back. After months of postponement and much speculation on its content amongst those who, like me, live and breathe food policy, the European Commission flagship initiative Farm to...
by Whitehouse Communications | 15 Jun 2018 | Brexit, European Union
You can’t always get what you want Mick Jagger said it: you can’t always get what you want. Unfortunately, this week is proving very few in the Conservative Party can get what they need. Let’s start with Theresa May. What the Prime Minister needed this week was for...
