'Session 2: External Relations' - Georges Baur: CELS Brexit Symposium

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🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 24 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	Well, to be honest, whether I can clarify much more what Britain wants or ought to want,
0:10.8	I'm not sure I can help you with that.
0:14.4	And if we start with the title, conclude trade agreements, I think Marcus is going to afterwards give you the more
0:24.7	detailed overview of what WTO means and what these trade agreements could be and in which
0:34.2	framework they would work.
0:39.0	I will rather concentrate on the basis of how you get
0:42.4	to conclude such framework,
0:45.3	such trade agreements at all, if once Brexit happens.
0:51.3	So Swiss newspaper had this very recently published, and it is indeed. Here we go
0:59.8	again, and everyone starts up new, and well, I hope you won't be in the situation of those snoring
1:09.4	along afterwards.
1:11.6	Where do we stand?
1:13.6	Two days ago we had the second rejection of the withdrawal agreement.
1:17.6	Yesterday, House of Commons voted against no deal.
1:20.6	Today there shall be a vote on whether the government shall request extension of Article 50.
1:26.6	How long? No one knows.
1:28.3	Aiming at what?
1:29.3	Unclear as well.
1:30.3	And with which consequences we don't know.
1:33.3	So the assessment of potential future trade deals, of course, depends on the situation post-Brexit.
1:45.0	Is there still going to be a withdrawal agreement?
1:48.0	Slim chance, but as we know, Mrs. May obviously intends to come back a third time now with the withdrawal agreement.
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