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TREUP PI’s were engaged in today’s BREXIT clinic – for those who missed the slides, here they are:

David Phinnemore

Viviane Gravey

Dagmar Schiek

This special issue focuses on challenges and opportunities for the European Union, also addressing topical issues such as the EU’s role in policing the rule of law (with special focus on Poland) and “Irish question” in Brexit. The general introduction and those two articles are open access. The issue overview can be found here 

Saturday 23 September 2017, 9:00 – 17:15 hrs
Queen’s University Belfast, Main Site Tower

Our sincerest thanks to speakers and participants for making this a successful conference – a summary report is now available here , and a summarising video here. NEW: some of the papers are published in a special issue of the NILQ – check our web page here: https://nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/nilq/issue/view/7

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On 21 June the Home office has issued a 60 page long “Statement of Intent” (SoI) on how EU citizens will be able to secure settled status in the UK after “Brexit”, with immense resonance in the press and blog sphere. Is a mere Statement of Intent worth the hubbub?

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Professor Schiek offers a first legal political assessment of the protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the draft withdrawal agreement from legal perspectives. She concludes that the EU Commission’s proposal on the one hand constitutes a major compromise, in that a sectoral approach to the EU Internal Market is allowed for Northern Ireland alone, in order to avoid the need of a physical infrastructure at the border on the island of Ireland. On the other hand, the draft falls short of securing the all-island economy in the service sector, and also has shortcomings in maintaining the hybridity of identities in Northern Ireland as aspired by the 1998 Agreement (also known as Good Friday or Belfast Agreement). TREUP Occasional Paper 3 (2018) An updated version taking into account the provisional agreements between the EU Commission’s and UK government’s negotiation parties on 19 March, is available here :The island of Ireland and the UK in Withdrawal Agreement Draft 19 March 2018 Schiek

Chaired by Prof Dagmar Schiek (QUB), and with presentations by Prof Ulla Neergaard (Copenhagen), Prof Fabian Amtenbrink (Rotterdam) and Dr Bart Vanhercke (OSE, Brussels), the discussion  focused on whether the EU’s renewed social agenda, epitomised by the Pillar of Social Rights, can be aligned with the legal frame of Economic and Monetary Union, … Continue reading

In a recent extensive working paper Billy Melo Araujo examines the role of devolved governments in negotiating the UK’s new relationship with the European Union, adding a post-scriptum on the negotiators’ joint report of December 2017 ( http://go.qub.ac.uk/Melo-Araujo-Post-Brex-FTA ).  In a shorter blog for the UK in a Changing Europe, Dagmar Schiek discusses the options of avoiding a hard border on the island of Ireland considering the positioning of the UK government in addition to the negotiators’ report (http://ukandeu.ac.uk/will-the-irish-question-be-solved/ ).

 Venue: Queen’s University Belfast, Senate Room

 Date and time: 3 November 2017, 1230-1745

This workshop assessed the extent to which the EU is able to promote effectively its norms and constitutional values in neighbouring countries. … Continue reading

This seminar focused on the interaction between trade liberalisation and sustainable development in the framework of EU trade agreements, discussing the impact of the ECJ’s ruling on the Free Trade Agreement with Singapoor  … Continue reading

Friday 26^th May 2017, 12.00- 17.00 , Queen’s University Belfast School of Law

This half day event focused on the concept of ecological sustainability, identifying barriers that European Union policy makers face in seeking to achieve this core goal as well as the opportunities for innovative solutions. A report can be viewed HERE