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  • Brexit and the nations
    Kaeding, Michael
    There are two views of the UK constitution. One is that it is based on the absolute sovereignty of the Monarch-in-Parliament. After the 2016 referendum, this rapidly changed to the sovereignty of the ... 'British people'. Either way, membership of the European Union was seen by Brexit supporters as incompatible. Yet a second interpretation is that the United Kingdom is a plurinational union in which the definition of the people (demos), the purpose of the union (telos), the source fundamental values (ethos) and sovereignty are all contested. Seen in this way, it is a good fit with the European Union, which shares these qualities. The result of the Brexit referendum, in which England and Wales voted Leave while Scotland and Northern Ireland voted Remain, has exposed this longstanding, but often implicit, difference. Brexit has strengthened centrifugal tendencies at the UK periphery. It has destabilised the devolution settlements reached at the end of the twentieth century, as these were underpinned by EU membership. At the same time, the UK Government has sought to recentralise powers in critical areas. Yet, the break up of the United Kingdom into its component parts, with some rejoining the EU, would be a difficult task. While this would restore open borders between the seceding parts and Europe, it would create new hard borders with the remaining parts of the United Kingdom.
    Vir: Handbook on the European Union and Brexit (Str. 70-84)
    Vrsta gradiva - članek, sestavni del
    Leto - 2023
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 176871427
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