Squaring the Circle

The internal market of Dimensions the European Union has developed over time from the original “common market” of the European Economic Community “based on a customs union,” Until and unless the notice of withdrawal from to the Single Market and, finally, the internal the European Union is rescinded, the government market complemented by a host of other policies, of the United Kingdom will seek to [...] Does the referendum result require the government to seek a “hard Brexit” in the sense of abandoning essential elements of the EU internal market, as it 6 Consolidated version of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,13 December 2007, [2008] OJ, C 115/47 (entered into force is defined by the Treaty on the Functioning of the 1 December 2009) [TFEU], online: < [...] The European Union, on one side, cannot agree to set aside the future for a Modus Vivendi rulings of the court for the purposes of its future commitments to the United Kingdom, however much the United Kingdom might wish to escape How should one analyze the debate over the from the CJEU. [...] British commercial later than the date when the United Kingdom and industrial leaders, after having assisted or formally leaves the European Union; putting an remaining largely neutral during the referendum end to the jurisdiction of the CJEU and subjecting campaign, have now become alarmed at the determination of all legal issues in the United the prospect of failed negotiations and the Kingdom t [...] Kingdom must adhere to the internal market in its integrity, as the EU negotiating positions suggest, The Internal Market may not provide the degree of clarity necessary for a long-term renegotiation of the relationship The internal market is a complex phenomenon of the parties, and it will be necessary to define not easily reduced to a unified concept separable the precise content of the future c