Tag: European Constitutional Law
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Piet Eeckhout: The Real Record of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights
Brexit debates have started focusing on the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, after it has become clear that the economic effects of the UK departure from the EU are likely to be negative. Michael Gove has attacked the Charter, and the CJEU case law pertaining to it, in a key Leave speech, and the Financial…
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Nick barber: The Brexiteers: Right Answer, Wrong Question
Cross-posted from I-CONnect blog. Towards the end of the 1990s I was invited to a workshop just outside of Berlin at which a group of young academics gathered to discuss the future of the European Union. The workshop was funded by a German think-tank that had generously, if perhaps misguidedly, provided significant amounts of food…