The "Tusk didn't explain his position" line ignores the detailed explanation of the position which Barnier recently gave to the Commons. #DowningStreet
"Your rights will be protected in case of no deal" pledge to @The3Million - rather ambiguous #DowningStreet
It's over already.
Tl;dr NOTHING HAS CHANGED #DowningStreet
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As I have mentioned before, recently the EU Council approved the UK negotiating on Brexit issues with EFTA States. The details of this negotiation have now been released to the public. Here they are. A few comments. 1/x
2/ The UK/EFTA negotiations are taking place on the assumption that the withdrawal agreement is agreed and comes into force, and seek to match up the UK's relations with EFTA States with UK/EU relations during the transition period set out in the withdrawal agreement.
3/ The scope of the UK/EFTA State talks is limited to a) one aspect of citizens' rights - issuing residence documents during the transition period; and b) "other separation issues", which are not specified. There's no issue at this point of negotiating to join EFTA, etc.
CJEU, Brexit and criminal law
European Arrest Warrants issued by the UK must still be executed before Brexit Day
CJEU, equality law
New judgment clarifies the position of new mothers working night shifts, ie who has the burden of proof to show a health and safety problem
CJEU judgment on Brexit and European Arrest Warrants now online. Note importance of the ECHR and (implicitly) the Human Rights Act. Blog post soon: curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
1/ So, I have had a look at the new government notice on travel to the EU after no deal Brexit. With great respect, it's shoddy work. gov.uk/government/pub…
2/ There's lots of talk about passport validity dates, which is an important technical detail. But the central point that UK citizens can't just stay in the EU indefinitely any more is only briefly mentioned.
3/ Also the advice gets the law wrong. It says that it applies to Schengen states, ie *not* Cyprus, Croatia, Romania and Bulgaria. Then it says national law applies to travel to those States.
1/ CJEU today - sanctions
EU General Court upholds EU sanctions against Russian banks and oil companies re Crimea: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…
This includes Sberbank, which Jacob Rees-Mogg's outfit has invested in: theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
2/ CJEU, consumer law and telecoms
New judgment: SIM card pre-loaded with fee-paying links without sufficient info to consumers breaches EU consumer law: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…
Judgment also addresses overlaps between general consumer law & telecoms lex specialis
3/ CJEU, criminal law and human rights
New judgment on the balance between disclosure obligations to the defence and commercial confidentiality in banking cases - one case allegedly linked to Madoff: curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…
2/ There's a plan for soft law on legal migration and migration relations with Africa, but the binding legislation to be proposed concerns the EU asylum agency, the border control agency Frontex, and the law on control of irregular migrants (the Return Directive).
3/ Lazy hot take alert: please don't buy into (or write!) that "this is when the EU finally listened to populist objections to migration". There have been a string of EU measures agreed or proposed since autumn 2015 on migration control, esp asylum, Frontex, and use of databases.