Abstract
This chapter looks at the reactions of the key European Union (EU) institutions to the challenge of Brexit, and how they have made a special effort to maintain a unified position not just with regard to common guidelines for the Brexit negotiations with the UK, but also as regards wider working methods and the next steps forward for the EU. More specifically, the chapter reviews the Bratislava and Rome Declarations as well as Donald Tusk’s Leaders Agenda, the European Commission’s White Paper and its five scenarios, and some of the main resolutions that have been adopted by the EP since the Brexit referendum.
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The Rome Declaration of 25 March 2017, Declaration of the leaders of 27 Member States and of the European Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission.
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COUNCIL REGULATION (EU, EURATOM) No 1311/2013 of 2 December 2013, laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2014–2020.
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This divisive issue is again mentioned in Chapter 8 below.
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White Paper on the Future of Europe. Reflections and Scenarios for the EU 27 by 2025, COM(2017) 2025 of 1 March 2017.
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Discussion on this point was part of the institutional policy debate at the Informal European Council meeting of 23 February 2018.
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At its plenary session in February 2018, see text below.
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A point he later reiterated in response to British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson’s speech on Brexit on 14 February 2018.
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All these points were again mooted by the European Commission in their Communication of 13 February 2018 on “A Europe That Delivers; Institutional Options for Making the European Union’s Work More Efficient”, the European Commission’s contribution to the Informal Leaders’ meeting of 23 February 2018.
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See the discussion on choices facing the UK in Chapter 7 below.
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See European Parliament plenary minutes for 16 February 2017.
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Plenary minutes of 16 February 2017.
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Jacobs, F.B. (2018). Strategic Options for the EU: Institutional Reactions to Brexit. In: The EU after Brexit . Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77279-0_4
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