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The Christ Church Thinktank has been meeting since 2005. The first meeting was on 5th October 2005 and the subject was “The Causes of Terrorism, particularly between Arabs and Jews”. Plus ça change.
The Thinktank draws on speakers from all the churches and other institutions in the Lewes area. Our speakers provide their services without charge, so our meetings are free and open to all. Whether you go to church or not, join us whenever the topic interests you.
Our meetings are usually held in the church and are also available via Zoom. The format is 45 minutes talk and 45 minutes discussion and our average attendance is about 30. All meetings are from 7.30 pm to 9 pm.
If you would like to attend any of our meetings by Zoom, please email the Church Secretary for further details.
Meeting on Wednesday 21 May at 7.30 pm
Peter Holmes will be speaking on
""What could the 'UK-EU reset bring?' "
Peter Holmes is Emeritus Reader in Economics at the University of Sussex and a Fellow of the UKTPO (Trade Policy Observatory).
He taught international economics at Sussex from 1974 to 2020, and currently writes about trade policy, Brexit and the WTO (as well as Freeports"). He is a regular interviewee on Times Radio.
In the talk he will explain how the Trade and Cooperation Agreement signed by Boris Johnson in 2020 was a very limited form of Free Trade Agreement. Its text provided for subsequent modifications and the EU has indicated a willingness to discuss new agreements to reduce the crucial problem of regulatory and administrative barriers to trade. Keir Starmer appears eager to use alignment on security policy as a vehicle to improve economic relations, but his "Red Lines" constrain the extent to which the economic problems created by Brexit can be mitigated.
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