A Short History of Brexit

Beširević, Violeta (2020) A Short History of Brexit. In: NOMOPHYLАX : зборник радова у част Срђана Шаркића / уредници Тамара Илић и Марко Божић. Pravni fakultet Univerziteta Union, Službeni glasnik, Београд, pp. 621-645. ISBN 978-86-7952-038-8

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Abstract

Following Michel Foucault’s idea of the “history of the present,” this chapter represents a short genealogy of the past contexts and conflicts that gave rise to the Brexit vote. It consists of five parts. After the Introduction, part two traces the United Kingdom (the UK) membership in the European Union (the EU), highlighting the birth and rise of the British Euroscepticism and the UK’s exceptional position in the EU. Part three focuses on the main causes of the Brexit vote: dissatisfaction with a limitation of the parliamentary sovereignty, a vital principle of the UK Constitution; England’s dissatisfaction with the process of devolution that changed its dominant position in the UK; and animosity towards EU immigrants. Part four sheds light on the road to the Brexit, explaining the EU law’s and UK’s constitutional imperfections that produced an unprecedented constitutional crisis in the country in modern times. In the form of conclusions, part five offers some speculations about the Brexit finality.

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