{"id":28467,"date":"2019-03-20T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eliamep.lncdoo.com\/dimosiefsi-tou-mercator-european-dialogue-schetika-me-to-brexit\/"},"modified":"2024-08-28T11:05:22","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T08:05:22","slug":"dimosiefsi-tou-mercator-european-dialogue-schetika-me-to-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/dimosiefsi-tou-mercator-european-dialogue-schetika-me-to-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"MED Publication- Taking Back Control? The UK Parliament and the Brexit Withdrawal Negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p>Britain\u2019s vote to withdraw from the EU triggered a series of debates about the nature of the British state and political system, not least the role of the U.K. parliament. While focus has been on U.K.-EU negotiations, institutional developments within the United Kingdom have been equally important to anybody wishing to understand Brexit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are some key points of the Mercator European Dialogue Publication by Dr. Tim Oliver, Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Diplomacy and International Governance at Loughborough University London:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Parliament has been the site of intense arguments and differences over what the U.K.\u2019s vote to leave should mean, not least when it comes to approving the U.K.-EU Withdrawal Agreement. The deep divisions in the Conservative and Labour parties especially, reflect similar divisions in British society.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Parliament has been somewhat more united and effective in its scrutiny of Brexit, although the centralised and secretive nature of the U.K. state remains a big obstacle.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Deep divisions and uncertainty over the direction of Brexit, especially over the U.K.-EU Withdrawal Agreement, has given rise to suggestions, albeit constitutionally controversial ones, that Parliament could take control of the process by directing the executive in terms of policy.<\/p>\n<p>Find the MED&#8217;s publication <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Tim-Oliver-Taking-Back-Control.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain\u2019s vote to withdraw from the EU triggered a series of debates about the nature of the British state and political system, not least the role of the U.K. parliament. While focus has been on U.K.-EU negotiations, institutional developments within the United Kingdom have been equally important to anybody wishing to understand Brexit. Here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28468,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[492],"tags":[279],"program":[17],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28467"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28467"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44811,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28467\/revisions\/44811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28467"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eliamep.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=28467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}