EU consumer policy is underpinned by a one-dimensional, economic consumer. It reduces the consumer to her act of consumption, and consumption to price bargaining, which is not only arbitrary but undermines all other irreducible values but for self-gratification (Leczykiewicz & Weatherill,2016, p....
The reaction of other EU members to Britain’s withdrawal from the Union was another plausible reason to justify a decision to drop the referendum pledge. Several member states had expressed their willingness to inflict ‘punitive externalities’ (Rasmussen 2016) on the UK, and the potentially dama...
4. Where the Commission ascertains that a notified body does not meet or no longer meets the requirements for its notification, it shall adopt an implementing act requesting the notifying Member State to take the necessary corrective measures, including withdrawal of notification if necessary. That ...
On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union. The UK had been due to leave the EU on 29 March 2019, but the departure date was revised and the UK in fact left the EU on 31 January 2020 with a Withdrawal Agreement. The UK has entered a transitional period, which is ...