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ECJ advisers steps into Commons debate - government warned this was "Pandora's box"
Last week, Lord Keen of Elie, QC warned ECJ against providing "political ammunition” to Remainers. “Pandora was given a large box on her wedding which she was told not to open. We respectfully plead the court should not open this box."
Hubert Legal, Council's top lawyer, EU would be embroiled in constant negotiations would “to charm the notifying black sheep back to the flock through promises" of special treatment and "general opt-outs".
"This would encourage notifications that could be, if not frivolous, at least tentative or conditional and inspired by the hope to obtain a better deal than what regular membership offers," he said. "The main victim would be the European project."
Key words in court statement taking the ECJ into a role of constitutional clarification for HoC BEFORE the event. It seems MPs need EU judges to stiffen the sinews nowadays
"Political ammunition," as the government said It's a case of, as the song goes, of "handing out the arms and ammo"
Worth noting that the ECJ has political ambitions. When Jean-Claude Juncker's commission swore its oath in the court, its president set him the "key task" of defying Euroscepticism, an unusual judicial injunction
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