'EU Loyalty: External Relations as a Constitutional Challenge' - Christina Eckes: CELS Seminar
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Professor Christina Eckes of the University of Amsterdam gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "EU Loyalty: External Relations as a Constitutional Challenge" on Wednesday 21 November 2018 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies).
For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/ |
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| Created: | 2018-11-28 11:32 |
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| Collection: | Cambridge Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) Seminar Series MOVED |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Mr D.J. Bates |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Abstract: | The specific active and passive obligations flowing from the principle of sincere cooperation in the context of EU external relations are best understood as forming part of a comprehensive duty of EU loyalty. EU loyalty endows EU membership with a distinctive meaning. It is central to imposing a quasi-federal discipline on Member States.
EU loyalty has even more stringent consequences externally than internally. In other words, when the EU takes external actions the duty of loyalty deploys a particularly integrative force. With the EU’s increased external competences, this puts great pressure on the margin of manoeuvre of the Member States, as well as intra-EU relationships. While the more stringent application of EU loyalty may be functionally justified by the nature of external relations, the additional integrative force and its justification should be (better) explicated and put up for debate. |
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