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 If the frenzied speculation is true, this week’s special UK cabinet meeting will end with Britain asking for a customs union with the EU plus accepting its regulation of goods, while rejecting single market rules on services and freedom of movement. This model is generally called the “Jersey option” [article by Sam Lowe, research fellow at the Centre for European Reform] after the British crown dependency in the English Channel, which already has such a relationship with the EU.

Migration has "been one of the biggest crises that the European Union has faced in a decade where there have been several crises in a row," John Springford, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform, told CBS News.

Ian Bond, a former British ambassador to Latvia who is now director of foreign policy at the Centre for European Reform, said: “There are a lot more ways this can go wrong than right, with Trump cancelling the autumn Nato exercises, accepting the Russian annexation of Crimea and linking trade and security.”

Brexit has slashed Britain's public finances by £440 million a week, according to new research, which found the UK economy is already 2.1% weaker than it would have been if the country voted to stay in the European Union. A report from the Centre for European Reform (CER) found that — thanks to lower tax revenues — the knock-on hit of the vote to leave the EU to public finances has been £23 billion per year.

The prime minister is edging towards something that looks much like a single market in industrial goods, to counter the need for regulatory checks at the Irish border — or any of Britain’s ports — after Brexit. “It is a proposal under current consideration,” says Charles Grant, director of the Centre for European Reform. He wonders whether Mr Johnson and fellow Eurosceptics might quit rather than swallow it.

The pro-European think tank the Centre for European Reform concluded that the British economy is 2.1 percent weaker than it would have been if the country voted to remain in the EU, and has hit the country’s public finances at a cost of £440m ($583 million) a week.

A new analysis has found that the UK’s decision to exit the European Union has already slowed the nation’s economic growth by a cumulative 2.1% as of the first quarter of 2018, compared to likely results had Brexit been rejected two years ago. The study also found that the referendum vote is now costing the British government £440 million ($584 million) per week in lost tax revenue, challenging longtime claims by Brexit supporters that leaving the EU would improve government balance sheets. The study is from the pro-EU, London-based Centre for European Reform.

Nicht einmal die Visegrad-Vier, die in so manchem westeuropäischen Land oft als schwieriges Gegenüber empfunden werden, sind ein geschlossenes Gebilde. "Die Visegrad-Staaten sind keine einheitliche Gruppe", sagt Agata Gostynska-Jakubowska von der in London ansässigen Denkfabrik CER (Centre for European Reform).