Europeanization at a Crossroads: Accession and Informality in Serbia Alexander Mesarovich, PhD Candidate in Politics at the University of Edinburgh While 2020 marks a dramatic year globally in Serbia it will be, in addition to the year of the COVID-19 pandemic, the year that protesters stormed the Parliament (Narodna Skupština) in protest against what was …
Covid-19 and the Future of EU Citizenship: In need of a common EU crisis-mode response?
Covid-19 and the Future of EU Citizenship: In need of a common EU crisis-mode response? Dr. Katerina Kalaitzaki Early Career Fellow in European Union Law – University of Edinburgh Law School The blog post questions the extent to which the de-centralised response to Covid-19 in relation to the right to move and reside freely is …
What Does a UK Internal Market Mean for Regulatory Divergence in the UK?
What Does a UK Internal Market Mean for Regulatory Divergence in the UK? Kenneth Armstrong – Professor of European Law, University of Cambridge The United Kingdom Internal Market Bill (‘UKIM Bill’) has been attracting a lot of headlines but not necessarily for the right reasons. The controversy has centred around those provisions which would …
The EU Support Group for Ukraine: Quiet Politics of Substantive Reform?
Deanna Soloninka, PhD candidate in Politics at Edinburgh University For researchers of political and institutional change, path dependency matters. Outcomes can be traced back. Findings from a detailed analysis illustrate that “countries move along (nationally specific) well-worn paths” (Thelen 1999, 394). Studies of regional and international organizations catalogue similar pathways scaled up. Because policymakers work …
The governance of energy and climate policy after EU-Exit. An inextricable quandary or a Gordian knot?
Ingmar Versolmann In this article, I analyse the impact of EU-Exit on the governance structure of the energy sector in the United Kingdom (UK). As energy policy is inherently intertwined with the European Union (EU) acquis, an important question is how and through which regulatory instruments energy and climate policy will be addressed in the …
What Future for the European Social Model? Revisiting early intellectual concepts of social integration
Rebecca Zahn, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Strathclyde In a forthcoming article in a Special Issue on ‘Future-Mapping the Directions of EU Law’ (Journal of International and Comparative Law December 2020), I consider the future of the European Social Model by revisiting the classic account of post-World War Two European social integration. In …
Opportunity Cost: Why Brexit is not quite the security and defence moment Brussels has been banking on
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. …
The UK and the post-Brexit financial services regulatory and supervisory regime: From rule-maker to rule-taker?
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, …