European Futures
Scotland’s academic blog on Europe, from the Edinburgh Europa Institute
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 …
The UK and the post-Brexit financial services regulatory and supervisory regime: From rule-maker to rule-taker?
Cleo Davies, PhD candidate in Politics at Edinburgh University. The Single Market in financial services, just like any trade regime, is governed by a set of rules and standards. After …
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 …
EU and Regions relationships between challenges, reactions and initiatives: what’s next?
Gabriella Saputelli of ISSiRFA, Rome was our very first JMCE Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Law School, spending a week here in mid-October 2019. This is her blog, written …
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 …
Resolving Norm Conflicts in EU Law
Emily Hancox – Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute Usually, within a legal order there are certain tools for resolving conflicts between legal norms. Most well-known are the principle of …