John Ryan

Professor John Ryan is a Network Research Fellow at CESifo, Munich, Germany. He is a Senior Partner at a consultancy which advises private and public sector organizations on COVID-19/Brexit contingency planning.

Why a post-Brexit US-UK trade deal is under threat from the Irish-American lobby

John Ryan Dec 17, 2019

In June 2017, then UK Prime Minister Theresa May called an election that lost the Conservatives’ parliamentary majority and made her party dependent on the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) to form a government. The DUP, a fiercely pro-union…

The UK’s relationship with the European Union: a tale of British exceptionalism

John Ryan Dec 10, 2018

The EU referendum on June 23, 2016 represented the biggest political decision British voters have made in their lifetime. The British public in turn delivered a result that can easily be classified as one of the biggest recent political…

Can Merkel’s Germany manage a good Brexit deal for all?

John Ryan Sep 21, 2017

There is still some uncertainty in London about the role Germany and Angela Merkel will play in Brexit negotiations after the German elections on September 24. For Germany, clearly, the weight of the “market-friendly/liberal” block in the…

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