Abstract
All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter considers membership of the EU. There are three dimensions to the discussion. The first concerns the legal and political considerations relating to accession to the EU. The second concerns obligations of Member States while in the EU, with the focus on the rule of law crisis. There is discussion of the Treaty framework and membership obligations that flow therefrom, the problem posed by ‘rule of law backsliding’ by some Member States, and the different ways in which the EU has responded to this ‘backsliding’. The third deals with exit from the EU, as exemplified by Brexit, including analysis of Article 50 TEU, and what the Brexit negotiations tell us more broadly about the EU, and describes the Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration.
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