Benjamin Martill Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Edinburgh French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent claim that NATO was ‘brain-dead’ and that Europe needed to focus on building up its own security and defence capabilities was the latest in a long line of public pronouncements on the future of European defence in recent years. …
Cleo Davies, PhD candidate in Politics at Edinburgh University. The Single Market in financial services, just like any trade regime, is governed by a set of rules and standards. After forty years of membership of the EU, the financial services trade regime inextricably links the UK and the EU. And as in many other areas, …
Anthony Salamone Since the European Parliament elections in May, attention in Brussels has focused on determining the leadership of the EU institutions for the new institutional cycle (2019-2024). On 2 July, following three days of summitry, EU leaders announced their selections for four EU top posts – the Presidents of the European Commission, European Council, …
Gabriella Saputelli of ISSiRFA, Rome was our very first JMCE Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Law School, spending a week here in mid-October 2019. This is her blog, written during her visit to Scotland. The European sub-national context is complex and varied, with numerous Regions and local governments differently involved in the application of …
This blog post is the full text of Sir Jonathan Faull’s lecture in the University of Edinburgh’s prestigious Montague Burton Lecture Series. The lecture was delivered on 16th September 2019, entitled ‘Brexit and the future of the Unions’ I am here today thanks to John Peterson[1], a distinguished professor in this University, a fine scholar …
Emily Hancox – Max Weber Fellow, European University Institute Usually, within a legal order there are certain tools for resolving conflicts between legal norms. Most well-known are the principle of lex superior (granting priority to the higher-ranking norm), the principle of lex specialis (granting priority to the more specific norm) and the principle of lex …
Tamara Fischer, LLM Candidate in General Law, The University of Edinburgh Winning entry for the EU Immigration Law Prize 2018/19 In times of crisis one can count on the hyperactivity of the EU legislator. A prominent example is given by the recently approved Regulation (EU) 2017/2226 establishing the EES at the EU’s external borders which …
Tiffany Guggenbühl, LLM Candidate in Human Rights Law, The University of Edinburgh Winning entry for the EU Immigration Law Prize 2018/19 Introduction External border control and internal security in the European Union (EU) have become two sides of the same coin. Controlling immigration is increasingly used for security purposes while security and crime governance methods …
