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Just to raise awareness on the danger of shooting ourselves in the foot: The UK is apparently in the process of leaving EUI. (Thread) eui.eu
EUI is the European University Institute, an institution of Higher education and learning. Full disclosure: I have spent some time there. But then... many people in academia have. It is well-known. I would say “elite”, but apparently that’s a bad word these days.
Now EUI is, this is indisputable, intimately connected to the EU. Here’s a text about its history. eui.eu/About/Historyo…
However, EUI has been set up by an international agreement. Which I link here eui.eu/Documents/Abou…
The government has published a SI on leaving EUI. It is premised on the assumption that the UK will automatically fall out of the Convention gov.uk/eu-withdrawal-…
Here is the chair of international law of (ironically) EUI pointing out why that is erroneous.
But that’s not the end of it. Apparently this action was taken without informing people affected by it. What will happen to UK students? UK professors? UK staff?
