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Opportunity Cost: Why Brexit is not quite the security and defence moment Brussels has been banking on

Benjamin Martill   Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent claim that NATO was ‘brain-dead’ and that Europe needed to focus on building up …

13th November 2019 cdemowbr
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The EU’s New Leadership: Imperative to Overcome Europe’s Uncertain Politics

Anthony Salamone Since the European Parliament elections in May, attention in Brussels has focused on determining the leadership of the EU institutions for the new institutional cycle (2019-2024). On 2 …

28th October 2019 cdemowbr

Brexit and the future of the Unions

  This blog post is the full text of Sir Jonathan Faull’s lecture in the University of Edinburgh’s prestigious Montague Burton Lecture Series.  The lecture was delivered on 16th September …

3rd October 2019 cdemowbr

Brexit and rights of third-country nationals under EU internal market freedoms

Richard Steppe and Wouter Devroe LERU Brexit Seminar   Introduction After a Brexit, can companies established in Germany provide services to a recipient in France through a branch in the …

31st October 2018 cdemowbr

The legal nature of the withdrawal agreement

Katharina Behrend LERU Brexit Seminar   The negotiations between the EU and the United Kingdom (UK) about the UK’s withdrawal from the EU in March 2019 are underway. For both …

31st October 2018 cdemowbr

Solving the autonomy conundrum: Can the UK avoid a hard border in Northern Ireland without subjecting itself to EU judges?

Armin Cuyvers LERU Brexit Seminar     Solving Northern Ireland, the main obstacle to an orderly Brexit, is primarily a political challenge. EU law, however, imposes some legal limits that …

29th October 2018 cdemowbr

The EU and Scottish independence after Brexit

Núria González Campañá LERU Brexit Seminar     Secession is a live issue in today’s Western Europe. In the last years, we have witnessed the failure of two pro-independence attempts …

26th October 2018 cdemowbr

The Implications of Leaving the EU Customs Union

Dylan Geraets LERU Brexit Seminar   Introduction Keeping the Irish border open after Brexit is one of the key challenges that the UK and EU negotiation teams currently face. In …

22nd October 2018 cdemowbr

What’s the point of an extended transition period and how could it be achieved?

Tobias Lock LERU Brexit Seminar   In recent days, the option of an extended transition period has reportedly been floated by negotiators to break the deadlock in the Brexit negotiations.  …

18th October 2018 admin-euro

Amending Retained EU Law after Brexit

Emily Hancox LERU Brexit Seminar   In this short blog post, I reflect on whether the EU Withdrawal Act 2018 (EUWA) adequately protects rights guaranteed by EU law from amendment …

17th October 2018 admin-euro

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