Bulletin n. 1/2017
June 2017
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Levi Lucio
    Brexit and the Risk of EU Disintegration
    in Federalist Debate (The) , Year XXIX, Number 3, November 2016 ,  2016
    David Cameron decided to hold the referendum on UK membership of the EU in order to defeat the eurosceptic wing of the Conservative Party, to stop the advancement of UKIP and to confirm his leadership. He made a wrong calculation. That unhappy decision has triggered dynamics he has proved to be powerless to control and finally have led to his political suicide. The deal negotiated between EU and UK before the referendum enabled Britain to add a new optout to those concerning the euro, Schengen, the police and criminal justice legislation and the European Charter of fundamental rights: the one regarding the “ever closer union” clause. In fact, the EU had legitimized the dangerous concept – fortunately deleted by the outcome of the referendum – that a member state might not share a fundamental principle enshrined in the preambles of the founding treaties of the European institutions. Cameron was successful in asserting the British vision of the EU-UK relations, which conceives the EU as a market, not as a project aiming at political union, and assigned to Britain a partial membership status.
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