Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit

O'Donoghue, Aoife; Murray, Colin; Warwick, Ben; de Mars, Sylvia

Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit

O'Donoghue, Aoife; Murray, Colin; Warwick, Ben; de Mars, Sylvia

Authors

Aoife O'Donoghue

Colin Murray

Ben Warwick

Sylvia de Mars

Abstract

Maintaining the Common Travel Area that has existed between the UK, Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man has been set down by the UK Prime Minister as one of her government’s 12 key negotiating objectives. In this note, some of the functions of the CTA are described, and the possible threats to it from Brexit are explored. It is concluded that the flexibility and informality of the CTA means that while maintaining it in name is relatively easy, changes to its substance are likely. Close scruntiny of any changes to the reciprocal nature and substantive provisions of the CTA are therefore essential to assessing the success of this aspect of the UK government’s negotiations.

Citation

O'Donoghue, A., Murray, C., Warwick, B., & de Mars, S. (2017). Policy Paper: The Common Travel Area: Prospects After Brexit

Publication Date	Jan 1, 2017
Deposit Date	Jan 26, 2017
Publicly Available Date	Feb 9, 2017
Related Public URLs	https://www.academia.edu/31044569/The_Common_Travel_Area_Prospects_After_Brexit