Secession from a member state and withdrawal from the European Union : troubled membership / edited by Carlos Closa.

This is the first book to jointly scrutinise two existential issues for the EU: withdrawal of a member state (i.e. Brexit) and territorial secession (affecting Scotland, Catalonia and beyond). The book applies normative and empirical analysis, explores new approaches and discusses the deep theoretic...

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Other Authors: Closa, Carlos (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : troubled membership : secession and withdrawal / Carlos Closa
  • Secessionism and its discontents / Joseph HH Weiler
  • Internal enlargement of the European Union : beyond legalism and political expediency / Neil Walker
  • Secession and the ambiguous place of regions under EU law / Cristina Fasone
  • Political and legal aspects of recent regional secessionist trends in some EU member states (I) / Jean Claude Piris
  • Political and legal aspects of recent regional secessionist trends in some EU member states (II) / Jean Claude Piris
  • The reach and resources of European law in the Scottish independence referendum / Kenneth Armstrong
  • The political rights of EU citizens and the right of secession / Manuel Medina Ortega
  • Unions and citizens : membership status and political rights in the Scotland, the UK and the EU / Jo Shaw
  • Interpreting Article 50 : exit, voice and... what about loyalty? / Carlos Closa
  • This way, please! : a legal appraisal of the EU withdrawal clause / Christophe Hillion
  • Be careful what you wish for : procedural parameters of EU withdrawal / Adam Lazowski
  • EU citizenship and withdrawals from the Union : how inevitable is the radical downgrading of rights? / Dimitry Kochenov.