The Federal Trust for Education and Research is a research institute studying the interactions between regional, national, European and global levels of government. Founded in 1945 on the initiative of Sir William Beveridge , it has long made a powerful contribution to the study of federalism and federal systems. It has always had a particular interest in the European Union and Britain’s place in it.
5-407: The Federal Trust has no allegiance to any political party. It is registered as a charity for the purposes of education and research. The director of The Federal Trust is Brendan Donnelly (2003-). Its chairman is John Stevens. Chairman: John Stevens , former MEP (1989–1999) As of this edit , this article uses content from "Federal Trust" , which is licensed in a way that permits reuse under
10-684: The Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License , but not under the GFDL . All relevant terms must be followed. Brendan Donnelly (politician) Brendan Patrick Donnelly (born 25 August 1950) is a British pro-European Union politician who has been the leader of Rejoin EU since 2024. Donnelly previously served as the Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for
15-611: The Pro-Euro Conservative Party at the 1999 European elections . He failed to get elected and subsequently joined the Liberal Democrats . He stood in the 2009 European elections under the Yes2Europe political label. He stood in the 2014 European elections for the 4 Freedoms Party (UK EPP) . He stood in the 2021 London Assembly election for Rejoin EU . He was unsuccessful in each case. He stood for Rejoin EU in
20-796: The Sussex South and Crawley constituency from 1994 to 1999 . Born in London, Donnelly was educated at St Ignatius' College in Tottenham , and then at Christ Church, Oxford . He worked at the Foreign Office from 1976 until 1982, when he joined the secretariat of the Conservative Group in the European Parliament . From 1986 to 1987, he was a political adviser to Lord Cockfield , and then from 1987 to 1990 worked as an independent consultant on
25-652: The European Community. At the 1989 European Parliament election , he stood unsuccessfully for the Conservatives in London West . Donnelly was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in Sussex South and Crawley at the 1994 European Parliament election for the Conservative Party. He then left the party, continued as an independent for a period, and then co-founded and became deputy leader of
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