Spain's response to Brexit

Luis Garicano

CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE

Abstract: Brexit puts at risk the close and mutually beneficial relationship that the UK and Spain have long enjoyed, according to Luis Garicano. With Spain unlikely to budge on freedom of movement and Gibraltar as a negotiating card, the UK is likely to find itself with a very bad deal, he concludes. Before Brexit, the UK-Spain relationship was a picture perfect illustration of the economic and political benefits of the European Union and the Single Market. So there is a large downside for both Spain and the UK from any disruption to trade and investment flows between the two countries. For the UK, the highest human and economic cost will be from unravelling freedom of movement. Garicano argues that Spain is likely to demand that Single Market access continues to require commitment to the four freedoms. What's more, Gibraltar highlights the likely result of Brexit negotiations: the UK's 'death by a thousand cuts'.

Keywords: Spain; UK; Brexit; trade (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/cp491.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cep:cepcnp:491

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance from Centre for Economic Performance, LSE
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().