The TREUP project pursues interdisciplinary European studies from the enhanced perception of tensions at the fringes of the European Union, combining the empirical exploration of tensions with the EU’s purpose as a normative constitutional perspective. Its four research clusters focus on tensions between narrow economic perspectives on integration and the lives of Europe’s people in their diversity, between the EU’s external (trade) policy and its constitutional values, between different degrees of intensity of integration and different levels of governance, and between the two competing European human rights regimes.
Following the UK government’s release of its position paper on the position of Northern Ireland and Ireland after Brexit, Professor Dagmar Schiek shares her initial thoughts on the paper and highlights what is not being addressed. … Continue reading
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 26th 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
Escaping the jurisdiction of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) is not just one of the goals professed in the White Paper on exiting the EU – it most likely qualifies as one of the Prime Minister’s red lines for any so-called “Brexit Deal”, … Continue reading
Professor Schiek was quoted in “Le Monde” on the basis of the CETLS/TREUP occasional paper “Hard Brexit“. She explained that, … Continue reading
In this TREUP/CETLS occasional paper, Prof. Dagmar Schiek provides some suggestions on how to maintain an all-island perspective for Ireland after “Hard Brexit”. … Continue reading
The School of Law at QUB, together with the Centre for Transnational and European Studies, hosted a round-table discussion forum about the “Brexit” decisions of the UK Supreme Court, released on Tuesday, 24th January, concerning the constitutional requirements to trigger Art. 50 TEU.
Café Europa, a new JMCE/TREUP initiative providing a forum for debating research and practice on law & policy in the European Union, was launched on 15 December. The topic of this first edition was “What does ‘Brexit’ mean for higher education and academics?”. … Continue reading
