Policy
25.10.2016

Parliaments in Brexit negotiations: watchdogs & veto players

Since UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced that “Brexit means Brexit”, many wonder how the process of negotiating Brexit will unfold. What governments and EU institutions do, will in any case be controlled by parliaments. The case of Wallonia and CETA shows that other parliaments – national or even regional – matter when it comes to Brexit. Valentin Kreilinger explains why.

Dr. Valentin Kreilinger formally worked for the Jacques Delors Centre.

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