Brexit - a tragic continuity of Europe's daily operation

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Kukovec, D. 2016. Brexit - a tragic continuity of Europe's daily operation. Verfassungsblog. https://doi.org/10.17176/20161007-145741
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TitleBrexit - a tragic continuity of Europe's daily operation
AuthorsKukovec, D.
Abstract

The British vote to leave the European Union came as a surprise and a shock. It has been understood as an aberration, as a triumph of populism and nationalism, in conflict with the ethos of the Union. But Brexit should not be understood as a mere aberration, but instead as one position on continuum of exhausted thinking about EU and (transnational) law in general. From the perspective of "pure" legal theory, Brexit is self-referential, resulting from the internal dynamics of the system. It is a result of the general lack of legal and economic imagination as to how the EU should be reordered and reimagined.

Publication or CollectionVerfassungsblog: On Matters Constitutional
ISSN2366-7044
PublisherVerfassungsblog
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Online07 Oct 2016
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Deposited03 May 2018
Accepted15 Aug 2016
Output statusPublished
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