Tag: EU renegotiation
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Pavlos Eleftheriadis: The Proposed New Legal Settlement of the UK with the EU
In this comment I discuss the proposals for a new settlement between the UK and the EU. As I will show, the precise nature of the draft agreement is unclear. This legal instrument raises difficult issues of both EU and public international law and could potentially cause serious uncertainty or even a constitutional crisis. Press…
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Mike Gordon: The UK’s Sovereignty Uncertainty
The sovereignty strand of the renegotiation of the UK’s position in the EU was always likely to raise challenges. This is, in part, because ‘sovereignty’ itself is a contested idea: it can mean different things to different people in different contexts, and may raise different considerations depending on the perspective from which it is confronted.…
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Steve Peers: The Draft Renegotiation Deal: EU Immigration Issues
Cross-posted from EU Law Analysis. This is the first in a series of blog posts about the draft deal on the renegotiation of the UK’s EU membership, tabled earlier today. I am starting with the critical issue of free movement of EU citizens (often referred to as ‘EU immigration’). Subsequent posts will be on the…