{"id":485,"date":"2015-10-26T10:43:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T10:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=485"},"modified":"2015-10-26T10:43:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T10:43:21","slug":"the-global-europe-centre-submits-evidence-to-foreign-affairs-select-committee-on-costs-and-benefits-of-eu-membership-to-uks-role-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2015\/10\/26\/the-global-europe-centre-submits-evidence-to-foreign-affairs-select-committee-on-costs-and-benefits-of-eu-membership-to-uks-role-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"The Global Europe Centre submits evidence to Foreign Affairs Select Committee on costs and benefits of EU membership to UK&#8217;s role in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Richard Whitman, Head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/\">School of Politics and International Relations<\/a> and Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/gec\/\">Global Europe Centre<\/a>,\u00a0recently submitted evidence to the\u00a0House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on the Costs and benefits of EU membership for the UK&#8217;s role in the world. His evidence has been published on the Foreign Affairs Committee website at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/data.parliament.uk\/writtenevidence\/committeeevidence.svc\/evidencedocument\/foreign-affairs-committee\/the-costs-and-benefits-of-uk-membership-of-the-eu\/written\/22223.html\">http:\/\/data.parliament.uk\/writtenevidence\/committeeevidence.svc\/evidencedocument\/foreign-affairs-committee\/the-costs-and-benefits-of-uk-membership-of-the-eu\/written\/22223.html\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The evidence Professor Whitman submitted\u00a0focused on the implications for UK and foreign policy if the UK exits the European Union. It argues that the impact for the UK would be profound and irreversible and lead to a significantly diminished international role for the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Richard Whitman, Head of the School of Politics and International Relations and Director of the Global Europe Centre,\u00a0recently submitted evidence to the\u00a0House of Commons &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2015\/10\/26\/the-global-europe-centre-submits-evidence-to-foreign-affairs-select-committee-on-costs-and-benefits-of-eu-membership-to-uks-role-in-the-world\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131001,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}