Open letter on Brexit from Trinity College Dublin

Posted on: 01 November 2018

An open letter to the Financial Times, penned by Trinity College Dublin, on Brexit and the higher education landscape in Europe amidst the ongoing talks around the terms of the UK’s exit from the European Union, is published today, Thursday, November 1st.

The opportunity to run the open letter is a direct result of the university’s participation in the Financial Times Future of Europe project which saw the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute organise a Behind the Headlines public discussion on the Future of Europe and its borders in a media partnership with the Financial Times. This resulted in a free advertisement opportunity in the Financial Times.

The letter which is available to read here, outlines a quote from 18th-century philosopher, historian, politician and Trinity graduate Edmund Burke, ‘‘Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.”

The letter speaks of the strong research network which has been built up over the past four decades “by the largest collaborative research network in history, the EU,” and the “threat of rupture” Brexit now poses to these hard won collaborations.

It closes by calling for ‘’prudence, deliberation and foresight’’.

You can read the letter in full here.