'Session 2: External Relations' - Markus Gehring: CELS Brexit Symposium

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🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 32 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	Okay, ladies and gentlemen, well, I struggle with the technology.
0:08.0	I should, whenever I talk about Brexit, I am trying to make a point to reveal my biases.
0:21.6	As someone who's lived and worked in this country for 15 years,
0:26.6	Brexit doesn't leave me cold,
0:30.6	and therefore I need to just briefly sort of reveal that what you might hear is not completely sort of the sober academic.
0:47.1	This is coloured by the say, Brexit victim perspective.
0:56.5	On the other hand, as someone who some years ago wrote a textbook on WTO law,
1:03.7	I feel there is some opportunity to shed some light on where we are in the process and what else might come.
1:20.1	We have people in the room who are much better qualified to assess where the UK Parliament is going to end up in just a second,
1:39.5	because I think if someone had said to me three months ago that we still wouldn't know,
1:53.1	we still wouldn't know what exactly the consequences would be, I would have said, that is absolutely impossible in a well-organized
2:07.6	country like the United Kingdom. Unfortunately, that is exactly where we are.
2:18.3	And that is, I think, to a certain extent, the problem.
2:27.3	Let me re-put my PowerPoint slides.
2:33.3	Does anybody know how to show this slide yeah oh it's not an ideal
2:44.7	you download yeah I tried that just now.
2:55.6	Oh, there we go.
2:56.6	Good.
2:57.6	Okay.
2:58.6	Ladies and gentlemen, what is the effect of the Brexit process on the UK's ability to conclude trade agreements?
3:09.1	And what are the potential frameworks?
3:10.5	You've already heard that one of the purposes of Brexiting is so that the UK can enter the
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