Over the course of the last two decades there have been numerous intergovernmental conference (IGC) negotiations: the 1985 talks that led to the Single European Act (SEA), the 1990-1991 parallel negotiations on monetary and political union that culminated in the Maastricht Treaty on European...

This chapter analyses the relevance of international law concepts of monism and dualism in the legal and political system of the European Union through the lens of national parliaments as inescapable ingredients in giving international law effect in domestic legal orders. We inquire about the...

In a period of sluggish economic growth, the Brexit saga adds additional uncertainty to trade issues, concluding half a century of troubled EU-UK experience. In the post-Brexit era, the UK will be the third external EU_27 partner after the USA and China. Especially inbound trade (from the UK to...