Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done

On Thursday, November 30, we welcomed back our former visiting researchers, Stefaan De Rynck, currently Head of the European Commission's Representation in Belgium, for a discussion of his new book: Inside the Deal: How the EU Got Brexit Done. De Rynck was a close aide to Michel Barnier during the Brexit negotiations, and here he tells the EU's side of the story leading up to the final deal. The event was moderated by Vivien Schmidt, Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration at Boston University.

De Rynck was a Visiting Researcher at the Center for the Study of Europe in 2013-14. He has worked as an EU civil servant on financial regulation, the single market, transport policy, sustainable urban development and on EU Treaty changes. He has a PhD in political and social sciences from the European University Institute in Florence and teaches at the Public Governance Institute of the University of Leuven in Belgium.