In light of the ongoing legal hearing on the triggering of Article 50, Piet Eeckhout, Professor of EU Law at UCL, examines Article 50 from an EU law perspective. He explores what the UK’s constitutional requirements for leaving the EU entail, noting that parliament has a role to play in any withdrawal decision.
The litigation concerning the triggering of Article 50 is underway. It is the constitutional case of the century. The government’s skeleton argument has been published. This reveals that one of the pillars of its defence is that the decision to withdraw from the EU has already been taken. Consequently, all that is in issue is the authority to notify the EU of that decision, and to start the two-year negotiation period provided for in Article 50. That, the government’s case goes, is a decision of high policy which is rightly in the government’s hands, and not in those…
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