Brexit

While they’ve avoided short-term trade disruptions, Brussels and London still have fundamentally different goals for amending the Northern Ireland protocol.

London’s reluctance to comply with the bloc’s single market rules will keep negotiations to reform the Northern Ireland protocol at risk of collapse.

A look at what the coming week will bring -- and a list of recommended Stratfor articles from the week that was.

Disputes over the long-term implementation of the Northern Ireland protocol will continue to threaten the Brexit trade deal.

Scotland’s governing party has promised to ask the U.K. for a second independence referendum if it wins the May 6 vote.

The likely appointment of a more hard-line first minister could inspire new rounds of violence in the region, as well as disputes between the U.K. and EU.

Baker’s Dozen is the newest podcast series of monthly conversations about geopolitics from Stratfor, a RANE company. In this episode, host Rodger Baker speaks with Geoff Sloan, an associate professor at the University of Reading and the U.K. coordinator of the Mackinder Forum, about the geopolitics of the United Kingdom.

The intensifying dispute over customs controls could prompt Brussels to retaliate with tariffs on British products.

In this episode of the Essential Geopolitics podcast, Emily Donahue catches up with Adriano Bosoni, Stratfor Senior Europe analyst at RANE. No one expected the disengagement of the United Kingdom from the European Union, known as Brexit, to be simple. But it has shone the spotlight on serious long-term issues.

The EU and U.K.’s renewed focus on the implementation of customs controls could open the door to sporadic episodes of violence in the region.