The Centre for Federal Studies (University of Kent), the James Madison Charitable
Trust, the Forum of Federations and the Federal Trust Fund co-organised a conference
‘Devolution in England: International Perspectives, Politics andPolicy Ideas after
Brexit,’ on the 20-21 June 2017 at the University of Kent.
Around 40 participants, politicians, senior academics, policy makers and NGO representatives from the United Kingdom, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Canada, Spain and Italy, attended the conference.
The conference aimed to shed the light on the on-going debate over devolution in the UK and more specifically the implication that Brexit will have on the future of institutional design within the UK. The conference was organised in seven sessions that looked on lessons from across the countries such as Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain and Canada in order to provide policy ideas and recommendations.
http://www.forumfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/OP23_DevolutioninEngland.pdf