Playing Hide-and-seek with UK’s Parliamentary Supremacy - How the UK’s Retained EU Law Bill Challenges the Balance of Powers

Playing Hide-and-seek with UK’s Parliamentary Supremacy - How the UK’s Retained EU Law Bill Challenges the Balance of Powers Asimakopoulou, Eleftheria Author aut (orcid)0000-0003-4313-3527 Text xx# 2022 Verfassungsblog 2022-10-21 eng The ambiguous status of ‘retained EU law’ – this new category of domestic law consisting of the EU law applicable in the United Kingdom until 31 December 2020 – led the UK government to draft the Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill, known also as the Brexit Freedoms Bill (‘the Bill’), with the promise to align retained EU law with ‘the UK’s priorities for unlocking growth’. It is the most recent effort of the government to achieve what it has not achieved so far: to scrap the supremacy of EU law once and for all or, to put it differently, to restore the supremacy of the UK Parliament. However, rather than restoring, the government’s legislative proposal threatens the fundamental principle of the UK’s constitution. CC BY-SA 4.0 Asimakopoulou, Eleftheria brexit Checks and Balances Parliamentary Sovereignty Retained EU Law 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/playing-hide-and-seek-with-uks-parliamentary-supremacy/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20221021-192035-0 221021 10.17176/20221021-192035-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)