20 POLITICO JUNE 22, 2017 Brexit power matrix

Arrows indicate movement from the initial Brexit power matrix

MOST IMPORTANT IN (United Kingdom) Emmanuel Macron Angela Merkel (France) (Germany) Paul Dacre House of Lords Democratic (United Kingdom) (United States) (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) Unionist Party (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) (EU)

Jeremy Corbyn David Davis (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) Parliament (EU) Ruth Davidson (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) Damian Green (United Kingdom)

Boris Johnson Wolfgang Schäuble (United Kingdom) (Germany) (EU)

Gavin Barwell (United Kingdom) Uwe Corsepius (Germany) Peter Ptassek Didier Seeuws Philip Hammond (Germany) (EU) (United Kingdom) Team DExEU* (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) Simon Mariano Rajoy Case (United Alex Ellis (Spain) (EU) Kingdom) Jean-Claude (United Kingdom) Juncker (EU) (United Kingdom) Katrina Williams Liam Fox (United Kingdom) Sabine Weyand (United Kingdom) Nicola Sturgeon Mark Carney (EU) (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) Leo Varadkar Mario Draghi Amber Rudd (Ireland) (EU) (United Kingdom) Court of Justice Alfonso Dastis (EU) (Spain) Keir Starmer IN IMPORTANT MOST (United Kingdom) Christian Noyer (France) Constitutional court EU presidency Nina Obermaier (Germany) (Estonia) (EU) Catherine Webb (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom)

Jorge Toledo (Spain) Sherpa Sarah Healey (France) (United Kingdom) Donald Trump

LEAST IMPORTANT IN BRUSSELS (United States) Nigel Farage (United Kingdom) Angelino Alfano Team Barnier* (Italy) (EU) Antonio Tajani (EU)

Change Britain Brexit Central Syed Kamall Marco Piantini (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) (United Kingdom) (Italy)

Guy Verhofstadt Hubert Legal Open Britain (EU) (EU) (United Kingdom)

Ornella Porchia Piotr Serafn Elmar Brok, (Italy) (EU) (EU) Roberto Gualtieri Gibraltar (EU) frst minister (United Kingdom) Luis Romero Requena (EU) LEAST IMPORTANT IN LONDON

* — Team Barnier is: Stéphanie Riso, Marco Abate, Georg Riekeles, Eugenia Dumitriu-Segnana, Stefaan De Rynck and Randolph De Battista (strategy, coordination and communication); François Arbault, Ward Möhlmann, Aurora Mordonu, Tadhg O’Briain, Nicola Pesaresi and Marie Simonsen (internal market, sectors and cross-cutting regulation); Philippe Bertrand and Bence Toth (budget, spending commitments and programs); Antonio Fernández-Martos, Stefan Fuehring, Nina Obermaier (trade and external relations, internal and external security); Barthélemy Piche and Justyna Lasik (policy assistants to negotiators). Team DExEU is: Catherine Webb, Matt Baugh, Chris Jones, Tom Shinner, Joanna Key, Susannah Storey, Antony Phillipson.

ith Brexit talks underway it is time to recalibrate center of gravity of negotiations, but that national fgures and POLITICO’s Brexit power matrix, which maps the not merely EU ofcials have crucial roles to play. French Presi- Wrelative infuence of nearly 100 fgures spread across dent Emmanuel Macron and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar both sides of the two-year negotiation. make notable debuts. While instability in the U.K. government could lead to ma- Martin Schulz, the German chancellor candidate and former jor shifts in this ranking, for now both sides are presenting president who has sunk in Germany’s complete and stable teams. The complexity of Brexit demands opinion polls, is now of the matrix. Other notable departures both parties ofer their best and brightest. are populists Marine Le Pen, Geert Wilders and Steve Ban- We know from Monday’s initial talks that Irish border ques- non, whose political tide has receded for now. Theresa May’s tions have the potential to be particularly fraught. That’s former close advisers Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill, who found one reason why the lead civil servants on these issues — Oli- themselves blamed for part of May’s poor election perfor- ver Robbins for the U.K. and Sabine Weyand for the EU — are mance, are also gone, as is former European Commissioner ranked higher than in the original matrix. The team at the and Peter Mandelson, who failed to strike while the iron was U.K.’s Department for Exiting the EU is now in place, and has hot to make use of the Remain campaign’s database to form a risen along with Team Barnier. new political movement or party. The matrix continues to illustrate that Brussels will be the — Ryan Heath