Tag: Treaty of Lisbon
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Stephanie Reynolds: Playing Politics So the UKSC Doesn’t Have To: The CJEU Ruling in Case C-709/20 CG v Department for Communities in Northern Ireland
In its recent CG judgment, the EU’s Court of Justice held that it was lawful for Universal Credit Regulations to stipulate that EU citizens do not, by virtue of pre-settled status, have a ‘right to reside’ in the UK for the purposes of accessing Universal Credit. Since the right to reside test is an eligibility…
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Kenneth Armstrong: Bootstrapping Brexit: A European Rescue of the Nation State?
In a report published on 20th October, the European Union Select Committee of the House of Lords set out the argument for close parliamentary scrutiny of the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union. The central claim made in the report is that a middle path may be found between the Government’s apparent preference for retrospective…
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Adam Tucker: Triggering Brexit: A Decision for the Government, but under Parliamentary Scrutiny
What more, if anything, is needed to translate the result of the referendum into actual exit from the European Union? This question, which hardly featured in public discussion before the poll, is now the subject of a fundamental public controversy. For the withdrawal process to begin, Article 50(1) of the Treaty of Lisbon requires a…
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Marco Goldoni: The EP 2014 Elections: Constitutional Change or Window-Dressing?
The constitutional expectations developed around the European elections of May 2014 were effectively quite high. Faced with a mounting crisis affecting their output legitimacy, European institutions had to strengthen their status through a different channel. Plausibly, this explains why the idea of enhancing input legitimacy gained ground within the EU and in some Member States’…
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Dorota Leczykiewicz: The EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and its effects
The binding nature of the Charter The life of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights began in December 2000 at the Nice European Council Summit, when the Charter was politically approved after having been solemnly proclaimed by the European Commission, the Parliament and the Council. For nine years the Charter lived only as a declaration.…