by Roger CasaleFounder and Secretary-General, New Europeans 13th March 2020 If and when the UK re-joins the EU, it will do so not just for transactional reasons but because British people have understood that they are indeed Europeans. […]
by Roger CasaleFounder and Secretary-General of New Europeans and Former Member of the UK Parliament 13th January 2020 This article was first published in The Brussels Times. “The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief, We must suffer them all again” W.H.Auden, from the poem 1st September 1939 The plight of EU [...]
EU citizenship in the shadow of Brexit 22 October 2018 EU27 citizens in the UK still face an uncertain future if Britain leaves the EU and British citizens still face being stripped of their EU citizenship. At this conference we took stock of the situation facing millions of citizens whose lives, [...]
Citizenship and Free Movement in a Changing EU: Navigating an Archipelago of Contradictions by Professor Jo Shaw, Salvesen Chair of European Institutions, University of Edinburgh 13th October 2017 Abstract This paper considers the implications - in relation to legal status of EU citizens and their families (and [...]
Citizenship under attack - Some parallels between Weimar Germany and Brexit Britain by Professor Sam Whimster ‘If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere. You don’t understand what the very word “citizenship” means.” (Mrs May, Conservative Party Conference, Birmingham. October 2016.) [...]
The quintessentially democratic act? Democracy, political community and citizenship in and after the UK’s EU referendum of June 2016 by Professor Jo Shaw Journal of European Integration, Forthcoming; Edinburgh School of Law Research Paper No. 12/2017. 19th May 2017 Abstract On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to [...]
