'Session 1: Free Movement of Persons and Establishment' - Martin Steinfeld: CELS Brexit Symposium

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🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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On 14 March 2019 the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) hosted a symposium to discuss the potential implications of Brexit. The aim of this event was to provide informed commentary on issues within the ongoing Brexit process (whatever they may be). Programme: Session 1: Free Movement of Persons and Establishment What are the consequences of the Brexit process for the immediate and future rights of EU citizens within the UK and UK citizens travelling to or working within the EU. This would cover both the right to work, the right to be self-employed, and the rights of those not in employment. Chair: John Bell Martin Steinfeld (University of Cambridge) Eleanor Spaventa (Bocconi University, Italy) Session 2: External Relations What is the effect of the Brexit process on the UK’s ability to conclude trade agreements? What are the potential frameworks within which these might be developed? Chair: Geoffrey Edwards (POLIS) Markus Gehring (University of Cambridge) Georges Baur (Liechtenstein Institute, Formerly EFTA) Session 3: Goods and Services What is the effect of present and proposed arrangements on the free movement of goods and services? How far are the UK and EU markets to be segmented and how will this affect trading across borders, notably that in Northern Ireland? Chair: Stephen Weatherill (University of Oxford) Laurence Gormley (University of Groningen) Gareth Davies (Vrije University, Amsterdam) Session 4: Competition Law How will the substantive rules and procedures on competition law and state aids be affected by the Brexit process in the short and medium term? Chair: Albertina Albors-Llorens (University of Cambridge) Oke Odudu (University of Cambridge) Tim Ward (Monckton Chambers)

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0:00.0	So hello everybody.
0:05.0	I am going to cover this policy paper for in a second.
0:15.0	So to certain extent what can I do that can really add to anything that Professor Sperventa has just said?
0:21.6	I'll try my best.
0:24.6	The UK government has consistently attempted to provide reassurance for citizens' rights.
0:31.6	The analogy I'm about to use, I can't, since I'm utterly useless at drawing, I can't actually draw it.
0:36.6	It's essentially
0:37.5	like one of these spinning wheels at a casino with people's lives. Perhaps my motivation for this,
0:45.5	and it's interesting, my college's HR manager is very interested in this, are the thousands of
0:52.8	somewhat banal emails that have been sent out by HR managers
0:57.2	throughout the country to try and give some kind of reassurance to EU citizens within the
1:02.9	United Kingdom. In addition, there is the minor matter of what I shall call the UK 27, so UK nationals and the other 27 member states.
1:14.4	So my focus to a certain extent will be essentially on what the UK government has said and done.
1:21.7	The backdrop to this is inevitably going to end up with two things really,
1:27.6	reference to the withdrawal agreement
1:29.0	and the so-called settled status guarantee
1:31.6	that has been made by the UK government.
1:38.1	I suppose it's worth going into a little bit of the history of this,
1:41.9	so you may remember that citizens' rights were
1:44.9	guaranteed under the first phase of negotiations in December of 2017. This was something that was
1:53.6	relatively straightforwardly agreed in principle. This then fed into the draft withdrawal agreement
1:59.8	that was initially proposed by the Commission in February of last year, at the end of February, which after lots of discussion between White and civil servants and the Commission, via the Chequers' discussion of the UK Cabinet, appears to have kept, for the most part, the original proposal
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