QCEA General Assembly. Photo: Andrew Lane/QCEA.

Oliver Robertson writes about new directions and new opportunities for QCEA in the wake of the Brexit vote

A new direction

Oliver Robertson writes about new directions and new opportunities for QCEA in the wake of the Brexit vote

by Oliver Robertson 14th October 2016

‘So, now we’re out of Europe there’s no point to QCEA any more, is there?’ It might seem a fair question. The Quaker Council for European Affairs (QCEA) was set up in 1979 following UK (and Irish and Danish) entry to what was then the European Economic Community and the arrival of Quakers to work at the European institutions in Brussels.