nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181005-144439-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 151110s2015||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|ger|| 10.17176/20181005-144439-0 doi ger 342 23 de Witte, Floris Author aut Cameron’s EU reforms: political feasibility and legal implications de Witte, Floris Verfassungsblog 2015-11-10 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier David Cameron, the UK’s Prime Minister, has set out his objectives for EU reforms in a speech at Chatham House on 10 November 2015 – objectives which he later clarified in a letter to the President of the European Council Donald Tusk. Cameron’s demands fall in four categories – i) safeguarding Britain’s position in the Union’s ‘variable geometry’; ii) strengthening the competitiveness of the Union’s internal market; iii) bolstering the democratic authority of the EU by strengthening the role of national parliaments in the EU’s decision-making process; and iv) ensure changes to the principles of free movement and equal treatment of Union citizens in access to welfare systems in the host state. The political feasibility and legal implications of these objectives differ quite significantly. More crucially, each of the stated objectives can be interpreted and implemented in different ways. Generally, it seems, Cameron’s success seems to depend on presenting reforms that at the same time address British domestic issues as well as strengthen the EU’s functioning. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 brexit EU reform eurozone Ever Closer Union free movement Migration Subsidiarity Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/camerons-eu-reforms-political-feasibility-and-legal-implications/ raw object