theConsultant.eu has a new focus — Brexit.
For the foreseeable future it will be devoted to the threats and opportunities Brexit presents.
It remains a forum for Europe's management consultants to share news, gossip, opinion and analysis as they and their customers across the continent face up to the perilous challenge of the UK's decision to leave the EU.
It is edited by Dave Madden, once a management consultant and long-time editor of Management Consultant International and The Accountant. Contact The Editor on +44.1270 812774, +44.7821 901580 or editor@theconsultant.eu.
Brexit may not have happened yet, but its influence over the UK in the last three years has been mostly negative, according to detailed analysis by the academic think tank The UK in a Changing Europe. Its Brexit Scorecard is here.
KPMG UK says that Brexit will cause a decline in UK trade that will not recover for a decade, and any long term recovery will be underpinned by technology innovation.
The Institute of Directors is urging UK firms to step-up planning for a No Deal Brexit, after it emerged that over half of it members had still done no contingency planning for that outcome, despite the leave date extension to October.
fDi Markets, a Financial Times-owned database of cross-border investment, says Brexit uncertainty in the UK has boosted foreign investment into the EU's other 27 countries by 43% in the three years since the referendum; in the same period investment into the UK has fallen by 30%.
The predictable collapse of cross party Brexit talks has dismayed business leaders. Carolyn Fairbairn, CBI Director-General, said: "Another day of failed politics, another dispiriting day for British business. Six wasted weeks while uncertainty paralyses our economy. The May parliamentary recess should be cancelled and used to agree a deal as soon as possible — whether through indicative votes or the Withdrawal Agreement. Business and the country need an urgent resolution to this mess. This is no time for holidays. It's time to get on with it."