I defend
unions out of principle.
Not exact matches
A Green Paper follows, setting
out the Government's general
principles on freedom
of movement, the single market and customs
union, and the right
of EU nationals to remain in the UK.
As Tony Blair's former EU adviser Roger Liddle points
out in a new and forensically illuminating pamphlet «The Risk
of Brexit» other EU members would be well within their rights to resent the UK's latest bout
of stroppiness, refusing to join the Euro but demanding new rules to protect its influence, turning its back on the
principle of ever closer
union while asserting its right to be at the heart
of all pivotal decision making.
«The
principle of uniformity across the European
Union patria [fatherland] has already been breached in our case pointing
out that the UK already had different border arrangements through the Schengen agreement,» he said.
The reason for this is that the UK, even fervent Brexiteers, had always maintained that it had no desire to throw
out Union citizens already living in the country, and so very quickly the two sides could agree on a guiding
principle: a freezing
of the status quo.
«As stated in Article 5 (2) TEU, «[u] nder the
principle of conferral, the
Union shall act only within the limits
of the competences conferred upon it by the Member States in the Treaties to attain the objectives set
out therein.
He contends convincingly that the consolidation
of the
Union's role in criminal law only makes the «need for an all -
out criminal law policy... more acute than before» (page 59) and highlights six fundamental
principles that the EU needs to address in order to clarify and legitimise further its action in the field; among the six, the call to pay attention to the
principle of ultima ratio, coherence, subsidiarity and the requirement
of a legitimate purpose seem particularly pertinent also in regard to the current debate concerning the establishment
of the European Public Prosecutor.
EU legal professional privilege has developed in a particular field
of EU law, namely EU competition law, in the context
of investigations carried
out by the competent EU competition law authority, the European Commission (the Commission) into violations
of the provisions
of the Treaty on the Functioning
of the European
Union prohibiting anticompetitive agreements and abuse
of a dominant position (although, in
principle, the privilege could protect communications relating to other proceedings brought by the Commission in which the rights
of defence arise).
The objectives
of the
Union shall be achieved as provided in this Treaty and in accordance with the conditions and the timetable set
out therein while respecting the
principle of subsidiarity as defined in Article 5
of the Treaty establishing the European Community.
Thus, as the Commission has rightly pointed
out, the very wording
of Article 24 (2)
of that directive shows that it is only during the first three months
of residence that, by way
of derogation from the
principle of equal treatment set
out in Article 24 (1), the host Member State is not to be under an obligation to confer entitlement to social assistance on
Union citizens who do not or no longer have worker status.
This month we introduced a new blog column, State
of the
Union, hosted sold
out Seven
Principles and Bringing Baby Home Educator Trainings and Drs. John and Julie Gottman celebrated their birthdays!