'A Tale of Two Speeches: the UK and the EU According to May and Macron' - Michael Dougan: CELS Seminar

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🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Professor Michael Dougan of the Professor of EU Law and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the University of Liverpool gave a lunchtime seminar entitled "A Tale of Two Speeches: the UK and the EU According to May and Macron" on 1 November 2017 at the Faculty of Law as a guest of CELS (the Centre for European Legal Studies). Michael Dougan is Professor of EU Law and Jean Monnet Chair in EU Law at the University of Liverpool. Michael's current work focuses on the legal framework for and implications of the UK's withdrawal from the European Union. His lecture on the Brexit referendum campaign has received millions of views on Facebook and YouTube. He recently edited a landmark collection, The UK after Brexit: Legal and Policy Challenges (Intersentia Publishing, 2017). He is currently working on a monograph - The UK outwith the EU and the EU without the UK - to be published by OUP as part of the Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law. For more information see the CELS website at http://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/

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0:00.0	So good afternoon everyone.
0:05.0	Thank you very much for coming along to this week's sales lunchtime seminar.
0:11.0	It is enormous pleasure for us to welcome back Professor Michael Dugan in the University of Liverpool.
0:19.0	Michael has a huge connection with Cambridge as an undergraduate, as a doctoral student, as a lecturer.
0:26.6	And you probably know him more recently from the work that he was doing in the lead-up to the EU referendum
0:35.6	and subsequently in informing the public debate and continuing to do so,
0:40.3	those of you who are fortunate to go to his letter at Peter House recently will have heard him talk about the European Union withdrawal bill.
0:48.3	I think there is a transcript of that on the liberal. So if you want to see that, you can check it out there.
0:59.8	Today, Michael is going to talk to us about a tale of two speeches, the view of the EU from
1:06.8	Emmanuel Macron and from Theresa May.
1:11.6	So without further ado, I'll give the vote to Michael.
1:14.6	It's great to have you back.
1:15.6	Thanks very much, Kenneth.
1:16.6	And I'm thanks very much to Sills and especially to Kenneth
1:19.6	for the invitation to be here.
1:22.6	The title of the seminar, as Kenneth mentioned,
1:25.6	is a tale of two speeches, the UK and the EU, according
1:29.1	to May, and Macron. Of course, I'm referring here to the two speeches that were delivered in pretty
1:34.2	close proximity to each other in September just passed. The first one by Theresa May,
1:39.3	who was speaking in Florence on the 22nd of September, and the other one by Emmanuel Macron,
1:43.8	speaking in Paris, on the 26th of September and the other one by Emmanuel Macron speaking in Paris on the 26th of
1:45.8	September. I'm going to start with Florence and actually most of the things I'm going to say about
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