United Kingdom's Renegotiation of Its Constitutional Relationship with the EU: Agenda, Priorities and Risks
This paper contains three contributions which are intended to feed into the discussion in the AFCO committee about the UK government's renegotiation of its constitutional relationships with the EU. First paper by Charles Grant looks at the UK agenda in the renegotiation process and analyses its historical and political context, the focal points of the UK government's demands and possible pitfalls in the negotiation process. Jean-Claude Piris explores the variety of legal solutions to accommodate such demands both inside and outside current EU treaty framework. In the last contribution, Bruno de Witte discusses the options of new form of constitutional association laying down a legal framework for a "partial membership" for the UK.
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Bruno DE WITTE, Jean-Claude PIRIS and Charles GRANT
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- economic geography
- Europe
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- European Union membership
- free movement of persons
- GEOGRAPHY
- international law
- LAW
- political geography
- principle of subsidiarity
- revision of the Treaty (EU)
- single market
- Treaty of Lisbon
- Treaty on European Union
- United Kingdom