From dirty man to flirty man: What might Labour’s ‘closer EU alignment’ on chemicals look like?
“The question is not whether the UK should follow EU rules,” noted research fellow Aslak Berg in an insight paper for the Centre for European Reform in July, “but rather the extent to which it should do so and whether it makes sense to formally commit to doing so in return for increased market access”. The European Economic Area (EEA), Ukraine and Switzerland all have different models to show how this can be done, Berg explained.