Secession from a member state and withdrawal from the European Union: troubled membership

326 Pages·2017·3.134 MB·English

by  Closa, Carlos

SECESSION FROM A MEMBER
STATE AND WITHDRAWAL FROM
THE EUROPEAN UNION
This is the first book to jointly scrutinise two existential issues for the
EU: withdrawal of a member state (i.e. Brexit) and territorial secession
(affectingScotland,Cataloniaandbeyond).Thebookappliesnormative
andempiricalanalysis,exploresnewapproachesanddiscussesthedeep
theoretical problems unleashed by these processes. Featuring a superb
constellation of legal and political science scholars, the book combines
specific legal analysis and considers the political dynamics behind the
processes.Itprovidesextensivecoverageandsophisticatedanalysisofthe
interpretationofArticle 50and thepossible consequences itmay have.
The implications of withdrawal and secession on EU citizenship are
discussedindepthandthereisanoverviewoftheevolvingnatureofthe
relationshipbetweentheregionsandtheEU.Finally,thereisanengaging
normativediscussiononthedeepermeaningofthesetwoprocesseswith
respecttotheobjectiveofEuropeanintegration.
carlosclosaisProfessorofPoliticalScienceattheInstituteofPublic
Goods and Policies, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas,
Madrid and Program Associate at the Robert Schuman Centre for
AdvancedStudiesattheEuropeanUniversityInstitute,Florence.

S E C E S S I O N F R O M
A M E M B E R S T A T E A N D
W I T H D R A W A L F R O M T H E
E U R O P E A N U N I O N
Troubled Membership
Edited by
CARLOS CLOSA
InstituteforPublicGoodsandPolicies,
IPP
SpanishNationalResearchCouncil,CSIC,
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CONTENTS
ListofFiguresandTables pagevii
ListofContributors viii
Acknowledgements xiii
TableofCases xiv
Legislation xviii
ListofAbbreviations xxiii
1 TroubledMembership:SecessionandWithdrawal 1
carlos closa
2 SecessionismandItsDiscontents 12
jhh weiler
3 InternalEnlargementintheEuropeanUnion:Beyond
LegalismandPoliticalExpediency 32
neil walker
4 SecessionandtheAmbiguousPlaceofRegionsUnder
EULaw 48
cristina fasone
5 PoliticalandLegalAspectsofRecentRegionalSecessionist
TrendsinsomeEUMemberStates(I) 69
jean-claude piris
6 PoliticalandLegalAspectsofRecentRegionalSecessionist
TrendsinsomeEUMemberStates(II) 88
jean-claude piris
7 TheReachandResourcesofEuropeanLawintheScottish
IndependenceReferendum 106
kenneth a. armstrong
8 ThePoliticalRightsofEUCitizensandtheRightof
Secession 134
manuel medina ortega
v
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9 UnionsandCitizens:MembershipStatusandPolitical
RightsinScotland,theUKandtheEU 153
jo shaw
10 InterpretingArticle50:Exit,Voiceand...Whatabout
Loyalty? 187
carlos closa
11 ThisWay,Please!ALegalAppraisaloftheEUWithdrawal
Clause 215
christophe hillion
12 BeCarefulWhatYouWishfor:ProceduralParametersof
EUWithdrawal 234
adam łazowski
13 EUCitizenshipandWithdrawalsfromtheUnion:How
InevitableIstheRadicalDowngradingofRights? 257
dimitry kochenov
Index 287
FIGURES AND TABLES
Table
9.1 ScottishGovernmentcomparisonbetweenstatusquo
andhypotheticalScottishcitizenship page166
Figure
13.1 ThevalueofUKcitizenship 282
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CONTRIBUTORS
TheEditor:
carlos closa is Professor of Political Science, Institute of Public
Goods and Policies (IPP), CSIC (Madrid) and previously Director of
theResearchAreaEuropean,transnationalandglobalgovernanceatthe
Global Governance Program (GGP) of the RSCAS-EUI. He has been
Deputy Director of the Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales
(CEPC, Ministry of the President of the Spanish Government) and
member of the Venice Commission for Democracy through Law
(Council of Europe). He was formerly professor at the Universities of
Zaragoza and Complutense (Madrid) and at the Instituto Universitario
OrtegayGasset,inMadrid.HewasalsoVisitingFellowattheMindade
Gunzburg Centre of Harvard University, Jean Monnet Fellow and
Salvador de Madariaga Fellow at the EUI and, between 2010 and 2011,
EmileNoëlFellowattheJeanMonnetCentre,NYU.Heiscurrentlyco-
editoroftheEuropeanPoliticalScienceReview(EPSR).Hehaspublished
on EU citizenship, the EU’s constitutional structure, Europeanization
and the relationship between the EU and member states. His latest
monographs are The Politics of EU Treaty Ratification (Routledge;
2013) and Models of Supranational Legal Integration: Comparative
Toolbox from the Universe of International and Regional Organizations
(CUP, 2016) with Lorenzo Cassini and he has co-edited The Future of
Europe: Democracy, Legitimacy and Justice after the Euro Crisis (Rowan
andLittlefield,2014)withMiguelMaduro,DannielInnenarityandSerge
Champeau and he is co-editor with Dimitry Kochenov of Reinforcing
RuleofLawOversightintheEuropeanUnion(CUP,2016).
TheContributors:
kenneth a. armstrong,UniversityofCambridge
KennethA.ArmstrongisProfessorofEuropeanLawattheUniversity
of Cambridge. He was previously Professor of EU law at Queen Mary,
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