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 …
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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 …
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, …
EU and Regions relationships between challenges, reactions and initiatives: what’s next?
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 …
Brexit and the future of the Unions
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 …
Resolving Norm Conflicts in EU Law
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 …
The Establishment of the Entry/Exit System by Regulation (EU) 2017/2226: What can it do for you?
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 …