scholarly journals Brexit and the United Kingdom Water Environment

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 294-314 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Howarth
Keyword(s):  
Water Environment ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Water Protection ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Environmental Laws ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
National Response ◽  
Protection Legislation ◽  
National Framework

This paper notes the uk’s impending departure from the European Union, following the Brexit Referendum in 2016, and investigates the implications of this for environmental laws generally and, more particularly, for water protection legislation. At the time of writing, the uk Government’s Brexit White Paper is the focus of attention, setting out plans to repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and to replace existing eu law by corresponding national legislation. Taking the eu Water Framework Directive as a case study, the later part of the paper examines the inherent difficulties in this strategy in the particular context of water protection. It is suggested that there are major difficulties in finding national law counterparts for many of the eu obligations. Moreover, the exercise of trying to address environmental quality concerns through a purely national framework neglects the essentially transboundary character of many environmental problems and the need for a coordinated supra-national response.

Brexit: a challenge for the UK constitution, of the UK constitution?

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 409-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Gordon
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
General Election ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
National Response ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
Article 50 ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Eu

The United Kingdom 2016 referendum on membership of the European Union – challenges of pursuing the decision to withdraw – challenges for the UK constitution in commencing, executing, concluding, and legitimising EU withdrawal – domestic constitutional requirements for triggering Article 50 TEU – roles of UK government, UK Parliament, and devolved institutions in Brexit – a second referendum or a national general election on withdrawal terms – exiting the EU as a challenge of the UK’s political constitution – Brexit as exposing limitations of the UK’s current constitutional arrangements and architecture – Brexit as an unprecedented event and the centrality of politics – constitutional factors contributing to the outcome of the referendum – concerns about sovereignty and the (im)possibility of a national response – potential implications of the referendum for the UK and for the EU

scholarly journals National Adaptation to European Integration: The Importance of Institutional Veto Points

2000 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Haverland
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Goodness Of Fit ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Crucial Importance ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Veto Points ◽  
Scholarly Attention

The repercussions of European integration on national policymaking have increasingly drawn scholarly attention, yet, the determinants of national adaptation to the European Union are still poorly understood. This article takes issue with evolving arguments which grant crucial importance to the “goodness of fit” between European provisions and national rules and practices for explaining the degree of national adjustment to European requirements. In the case of the implementation of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, the country with the greatest misfit, the United Kingdom, adapted more successfully than the country which only needed incremental adjustments, Germany. The German record was also worse than the Dutch, despite the higher adaptation pressure of the latter. The case study suggests that the number of institutional veto points that central governments has to face when imposing European provisions on their constituencies, ultimately tend to shape the pace and quality of implementation, regardless of differential degrees in the goodness of fit.

Discursive Psychology and Journalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 256-276
Author(s):  
Joanne Meredith
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Discursive Psychology ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Media Research ◽  
Illustrative Case Study

Discursive psychology is focussed on the microanalysis of the language—how specific words and practices can perform specific actions and how alternate ways of describing the situation are omitted. In this chapter, a review is presented of discursive psychology and its application to media research. This is followed by an illustrative case study based on newspaper headlines relating to Brexit, the process of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union following the referendum on UK membership in June 2016. Finally, the chapter proposes that discursive analyses can not only help readers explore how particular events, people, and texts are constructed in the news but also help journalists understand how readers might interpret their words and what inferences may be drawn from this.

Observer States’ Commitments to the Arctic Council: The Arctic Policy Documents of the United Kingdom and Germany as Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 375-397
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Śmieszek ◽  
Paula Kankaanpää
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Arctic Council ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Arctic Policy

The Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council in Kiruna, Sweden in May 2013 received unprecedented coverage in the worldwide media. The main reason behind that attention was triggered by the expected decision of the Council to grant observer status to applicants, including China and the European Union. However, not only countries and entities seeking access to the AC proceedings have been increasingly active in their approach towards the region. Also the ‘old’ observer states to the Council got spurred by recent developments and among them the United Kingdom and Germany were the first ones to set out their overall Arctic policies in fall 2013. This article looks at both documents to examine the vision for the Arctic that both countries bring and proposes to read the texts in light of the rules for observers’ participation in the Arctic Council, which were approved in Nuuk in 2011. It continues with setting them against a broader picture of the involvement of outside actors in the Arctic cooperation.

scholarly journals For or against Brexit? Justifying oppositional arguments in online discussion

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Reijo Savolainen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Online Discussion ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Political Struggles

Introduction. This investigation examines argumentation about political issues occurring in online discussion groups. A case study was made by concentrating on debates about Brexit - the prospective withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union. Method. Building on Toulmin’s model for argument patterns, it was examined how oppositional arguments about Brexit were grounded by drawing on facts and opinion-based evidence and how the evidence of information these types was justified. To this end, a sample of 40 discussion threads initiated before the 2016 Brexit referendum were downloaded from PoliticsForum - an online platform. Analysis. The data consisting of 1563 messages were scrutinized by means of descriptive statistical analysis and qualitative content analysis. The focus was placed on the latter method by analysing the ways in which the discussants justified the rebuttal of opposing arguments. Results. Oppositional arguments justifications were mainly based on the description of personal opinions and negative evaluation of opposing views. Analytic approaches to justification based on explanation and comparison were less popular. This preference is probably due to the lower cognitive effort required while simply describing the attributes of an entity or judging its positive or negative qualities by drawing on one’s beliefs and experiences. Conclusions. Argumentation occurring in online platforms will form an increasingly important part of political struggles. On the other hand, online debates on controversial issues such as Brexit tend to be broad rather than deep.

scholarly journals International obligations and devolved powers – ploughing through competences and GM crops

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annegret Engel ◽  
Ludivine Petetin
Keyword(s):  
International Level ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Crop Cultivation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
International Obligations ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Eu

This article analyses the impact of Brexit on devolved competences in environmental protection. It maps the post-Brexit division of the United Kingdom (UK)’s internal (devolved) and external (international) competences and how this may shift when competences are returned from the European Union (EU). Crucially, the article suggests that certain of these EU powers do not simply derive from the EU but are, in fact, already held by the devolved regions in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity. Consequently, devolved competences are under threat of being pre-empted as the UK seeks to harmonise otherwise fragmented policies and legislation to comply with obligations at international level. This conundrum is illustrated here using a case study on genetically modified crop cultivation, which identifies the conflicts in the UK’s proclaimed strategy post-Brexit between international obligations and devolved competences and the legal challenges this entails.

scholarly journals The United Kingdom has spoken: The receding impact of European jurisprudence on the UK interpretation of the common VAT system

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Yige Zu ◽  
Richard Krever
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Uk

Post-Brexit, UK law conforming to Directives of the European Union such as the value added tax (VAT) Directive will remain in effect and UK courts will be permitted to consider decisions of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) when interpreting that law. How UK common law courts, steeped in the tradition of the doctrine of precedent, will use CJEU judgments in the post-Brexit era has been the subject of much speculation. This article considers the question in the context of a case study, looking at the application by UK courts of CJEU decisions in an important area of VAT law, the treatment of customer loyalty plan benefits. The evidence suggests that, even prior to Brexit, UK courts had started to pursue a separate path, declining to follow CJEU precedents that yielded clearly inappropriate policy outcomes. If the results of the case study are replicated more widely in UK rulings, it can be expected that the influence of CJEU judgments may taper off where formalistic and literalist CJEU interpretations have led to outcomes inconsistent with the recognized policy intent of UK law.

scholarly journals The Role of the European Union as a Peace Builder: Northern Ireland as a Case Study

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Arthur
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Communal Conflict ◽  
Essential Contribution ◽  
Joint Membership ◽  
Deviant Case ◽  
The Eu

The United Kingdom and Ireland joined the European Economic Community in 1973 at a time when bitter communal conflict engulfed Northern Ireland. It appeared to be a deviant case in a modernising Europe anxious to unleash the shackles of the first half of the twentieth century. In fact the unusual conjunction of conflict within a disputed region of the British/Irish archipelago and joint membership of the European Community offered an opportunity to move beyond the excessive intimacy of an ancient quarrel through different temporal and spatial lenses. This article addresses the issue of dealing with minority grievances in an inter- and intra-state dispute by analysing the role of functional regimes and the deliverance of “peace in parts” through the changing context of statehood within Europe where sovereignty may be divisible and borders more permeable. It will conclude that the EU has made an essential contribution to the changing relations between Britain and Ireland and to conflict management within Northern Ireland.

Determinants and barriers of PV self-consumption in Spain from the perception of the installers for the promotion of distributed energy systems

2020 ◽  
pp. 153-169
Author(s):  
José Ángel Gimeno ◽  
Eva Llera Sastresa ◽  
Sabina Scarpellini
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Distributed Energy ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Highly Sensitive ◽  
Transition Scenario

Currently, self-consumption and distributed energy facilities are considered as viable and sustainable solutions in the energy transition scenario within the European Union. In a low carbon society, the exploitation of renewables for self-consumption is closely tied to the energy market at the territorial level, in search of a compromise between competitiveness and the sustainable exploitation of resources. Investments in these facilities are highly sensitive to the existence of favourable conditions at the territorial level, and the energy policies adopted in the European Union have contributed positively to the distributed renewables development and the reduction of their costs in the last decade. However, the number of the installed facilities is uneven in the European Countries and those factors that are more determinant for the investments in self-consumption are still under investigation. In this scenario, this paper presents the main results obtained through the analysis of the determinants in self-consumption investments from a case study in Spain, where the penetration of this type of facilities is being less relevant than in other countries. As a novelty of this study, the main influential drivers and barriers in self-consumption are classified and analysed from the installers' perspective. On the basis of the information obtained from the installers involved in the installation of these facilities, incentives and barriers are analysed within the existing legal framework and the potential specific lines of the promotion for the effective deployment of self-consumption in an energy transition scenario.

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