The First British MEPs: Styles and Strategies

1993 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Jackson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Community ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Dual Mandate ◽  
First Session

When the United Kingdom joined the European Community on 1 January 1973 it became entitled to send thirty-six representatives to the European Parliament. For the first six years of Britain's membership – from January 1973 to June 1979 – these members were nominated from the two Houses of Parliament and hence held a dual mandate. From January 1973 to June 1975 only twenty-one British members, Conservative, Liberal, Ulster Unionist and a cross-bench peer, attended the Parliament; Labour members attended from the first session after the referendum on British membership of the European Community in June 1975.

Le parlement européen : Comparaison des résultats de juin 1979 et portrait de l'Assemblée élue

Res Publica ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 471-501
Author(s):  
Dusan Sidjanski
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Community ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
General Distribution ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Elections ◽  
Minor Parties ◽  
The Past ◽  
Democratic Control ◽  
Comparison Of The Results

The results of the first European elections reflect the general distribution of the European electorate slightly center-right oriented, even if the abstentionism of almost 40 % caused some distorsions as in the case of United Kingdom. After the comparison of the results, state by state, it appears globally that the socialists ( 113) and liberals (40) regressed, the gaullists and their allies (22) suffered a serious defeat, white the christian democrats ( 107) and the communists (44) progressed and some minor parties (leftists and regionalists) entered the European Parliament.The second part contains a portrait of the new European Parliament which is younger than its predecessor, has more women including its president and has many high personnalities. As in the past, the political groupsplay a central and dynamic role. The question is to know if they will be capable of maintaining their cohesion. The examined cases give no evidence of the existence of the center-right majority in front of the left opposition. In fact, there were changing coalitions and voting constellations according to different problems, ideological options or concrete choices. The recent vote rejecting the proposed budget expresses a will of the European Parliament to impose its style and its democratic control on the European Community.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Federico Fabbrini
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Parliament ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
Article 50 ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

This introductory chapter provides an overview of the Withdrawal Agreement of the United Kingdom (UK) from the European Union (EU). The Withdrawal Agreement, adopted on the basis of Article 50 Treaty on European Union (TEU), spells out the terms and conditions of the UK departure from the EU, including ground-breaking solutions to deal with the thorniest issues which emerged in the context of the withdrawal negotiations. Admittedly, the Withdrawal Agreement is only a part of the Brexit deal. The Agreement, in fact, is accompanied by a connected political declaration, which outlines the framework of future EU–UK relations. The chapter then offers a chronological summary of the process that led to the adoption of the Withdrawal Agreement, describing the crucial stages in the Brexit process — from the negotiations to the conclusion of a draft agreement and its rejection, to the extension and the participation of the UK to European Parliament (EP) elections, to the change of UK government and the ensuing constitutional crisis, to the new negotiations with the conclusion of a revised agreement, new extension, and new UK elections eventually leading to the departure of the UK from the EU.

The Influence of European Community Law on Public Law in the United Kingdom

1999 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Francis G. Jacobs
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Community ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Public Law ◽  
Community Law ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
European Court ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
European Community Law

It is a great privilege for me to give this lecture in honour of Lord Mackenzie-Stuart. I frequently had the privilege of appearing before him as counsel when he was judge at the European Court of Justice and also from 1984 to 1988 when he was President of the Court. It was on his departure from the Court in 1988 that I went to the Court as advocate general.Lord Mackenzie-Stuart, who has long been interested in the influence of European Community law on public law in the United Kingdom, had recently published a paper entitled “Recent developments in English administrative law—the impact of Europe?” In returning to that theme this evening I should like to update the story of developments in English administrative law where there may be a European impact. I will also venture, perhaps over-ambitiously, to look briefly at the new constitutional reforms, and to see if there may be a European impact there too.

Shall I Compare Thee? The Legal Dilemma: The Choice of Comparators in Discrimination Cases

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-317
Author(s):  
Sam Middlemiss
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
European Community ◽  
Equal Pay ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Relative Success ◽  
The Law ◽  
Rules Set

There have been remarkable developments in some areas of discrimination law in the United Kingdom over recent years along with a notable lack of development in other areas with both relative success or failure (in terms of extending the protection of the law) often being determined by the appropriate comparator which can be used in presenting a claim for discrimination and/or the influence and constraints of rules set down in UK and European Community Legislation. It is contended that a lack of uniformity of approach to these issues both hinders and helps the equality cause. It hinders by presenting uncertainty about the appropriate comparator in these cases and helps where the law recognises uniformity of approach in determining comparators across differing kinds of equality cases is both illadvised and inappropriate. It is contended in this article that reform of the areas of law where protection is weak or badly-structured is best served by borrowing from approaches in the better protected areas of UK discrimination law or from strategies utilised in other jurisdictions. In the interests of brevity and consistency of argument and analysis it has been necessary to refrain from considering this issue as it relates to equal pay.

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