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The challenge of Brexit: A conversation with Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe

Monday, November 13, 2017

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EST

Brookings Institution
Saul-Zilkha Room

1775 Massachusetts Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC
20036

Brookings - Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic InitiativeOn Monday, November 13, the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings hosted Ireland’s finance minister, Paschal Donohoe, for a keynote address. Ireland may be the EU member state most seriously affected by the United Kingdom’s pending exit from the European Union. The U.K. is Ireland’s second-largest trading partner after the United States, and Ireland now faces the risk of tariff and non-tariff barriers applying across the only EU-U.K. land border, between Ireland and Northern Ireland. How is Ireland, which emerged from a serious economic crisis earlier this decade, confronting this new challenge? And what impact might Brexit have on the political and economic partnership between Ireland and the United States?

Amanda Sloat, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, introduced the minister. Sloat and Douglas A. Rediker, Brookings nonresident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program, joined the minister after his speech for a conversation on these themes.

This event was part of the Brookings – Robert Bosch Foundation Transatlantic Initiative, which aims to build up and expand resilient networks and trans-Atlantic activities to analyze and work on issues concerning trans-Atlantic relations and social cohesion in Europe and the United States.