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Three Nearly-Certain Conclusions We Can Draw from the Uncertainty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Frank Schorkopf
Frank Schorkopf*
Affiliation:
University of Göttingen, Institute for International Law and European Law [Frank.Schorkopf@jura-uni-goettingen.de]

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The European Union stands for the successful public ordering of “Europe.” Its goal is to shape and organize this political and economic area through law, a project involving societies of different mentalities, western democracies, old and young countries in transition, and former Great Powers. That might be ambitious enough, but pressure from outside the Union is also increasing. Alternative concepts campaign strongly to win supporters. The Union's integration agenda is plagued by obvious economic, financial, and social problems. A dissenting spirit has emerged around strongly held convictions concerning what has caused the problems and who should be held responsible. It is a dissenting spirit that, following the Brexit-referendum 23 June 2016, will have significant consequences. Now we have the first withdrawal of a Member State from the European Union.

Type
Brexit Special Supplement
Information
German Law Journal , Volume 17 , Issue S1: Brexit Special Supplement , 01 July 2016 , pp. 95 - 98
Copyright
Copyright © 2016 by German Law Journal, Inc. 

References

1 The Statement by 27 Member on 29 June 2016, includes the same wording, European Council, Informal meeting at 27, 29 June 2016, para. 1.Google Scholar

2 See Miller, Russell, Self-Determination in International Law and the Demise of Democracy?, 41 Columbia Journal of Transnational law 601, 634 (2003).Google Scholar

3 Chancellor Merkel's press statement on 24 June 2016, German Transcript: https://www.bundeskanzlerin.de/Content/DE/Mitschrift/Pressekonferenzen/2016/06/2016-06-24-statement-merkel.html.Google Scholar

4 European Council, Informal meeting at 27, 29 June 2016, Statement, para. 6.Google Scholar

5 Giandomenico Majone, The Deeper Euro-Crisis or: The Collapse of the EU Political Culture of Total Optimism, EUI Working Paper, LAW 2015/10.Google Scholar