Europe

This is a reading list of publications on the UK’s withdrawal from the EU and future UK-EU relations from library, research services and committees of the UK and devolved parliaments and assemblies.

Why Hungary and Poland have blocked discussions over the EU's £1.82 trillion budget and coronavirus recovery package.

This paper provides details and links for ministerial statements and parliamentary debates (from both Houses of Parliament) that cover international affairs and defence.

This landing page features Commons Library briefings on international elections.

The Private International Law (Implementation of Agreements) Bill 2019-21 was introduced in the House of Lords in February 2020. It would implement arrangements for cross-border legal disputes after the end of the transition period, when EU based arrangements cease to have effect in the UK. The House of Commons will consider amendments made by the House of Lords on 24 November.

Equivalence is a system which can be used to grant domestic market access to foreign firms in certain areas of financial services.

A look ahead to the UK Government's integrated review of security, defence and foreign policy.

This Insight explains some of the key changes after the transition period and how the UK and EU are preparing for them.

Although the UK Parliament normally has a statutory period to scrutinise and potentially debate any new UK-EU treaty, it won’t necessarily vote on whether to approve it.

This briefing provides background to changes to UK visa requirements affecting non-British family members of British citizens living in the UK, which the Government plans will take effect from late March 2022. It also summarises campaigners' calls for a change of policy, and related debates during the passage of the Immigration and Social Security Co-ordination (EU Withdrawal) Bill 2019-21.

This autumn has seen the worst outbreak of violence over the disputed enclave of Nagorno Karabakh since 1994. Observers are worried that it will be difficult to stop the fighting and that it could draw in regional powers.

Having left the EU, the government is setting up for an independent UK state aid or ‘subsidy control’ regime, based on WTO rules. This briefing sets out the background of the new approach and the negotiations on state aid with the EU.

The Dublin III Regulation enables the UK to return some asylum seekers to EU Member States without considering their asylum claims. It also provides a legal route for reuniting separated asylum-seeking family members. The Regulation will no longer apply in the UK from the end of this year.