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For detailed information, European Commission, ‘TTIP—News Archive’, Department for Trade (DG Trade), https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/press/index.cfm?id=1230, accessed on 14 June 2020; for a critique of TTIP, see De Ville and Siles-Brügge (2017); specifically in relation to the implications of TTIP for labour rights and standards, Tyc (2017).
- 2.
The departure of the UK from the EU is referred to more commonly with the term of “Brexit” from the amalgamation of the words “British” or “Britain” and the word “exit”, see further Sect. 3.5.5 in Chap. 3 of this book.
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- 4.
Forsythe (2018), p. 4.
- 5.
Ibid., at p. 7.
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Ibid.
- 7.
For an excellent critique from the perspective of justice, see Kochenov et al. (2017).
- 8.
Lamy (2010).
- 9.
Stiglitz (2002), at p. 5.
- 10.
Cremona (2019), at p. 64.
- 11.
Chapter 2 of the book offers a detailed literature review of the EU’s role as a global actor.
- 12.
Treaty of Lisbon Amending the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty Establishing the European Community, 13 December 2007, 2007/C 306/01.
- 13.
United Nations, Charter of the United Nations, 24 October 1945, 1 UNTS XVI, available at: https://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/un-charter-full-text/, accessed on 20 February 2020.
- 14.
Articles 3(5) TEU and 21 TEU.
- 15.
Van Vooren et al. (2013), p. 2.
- 16.
Ibid.
- 17.
Article 206 TFEU provides that the Union shall contribute to the harmonious development of world trade, the progressive abolition of restrictions on international trade and on foreign direct investment, and the lowering of customs and other barriers.
- 18.
European Commission (2004).
- 19.
Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union [2000] OJ C364/01.
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- 21.
- 22.
- 23.
Williams (2010), at p. 1.
- 24.
Ibid.
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Velluti, S. (2020). The Promotion of Human Rights and International Labour Standards After Lisbon: An Introduction. In: The Role of the EU in the Promotion of Human Rights and International Labour Standards in Its External Trade Relations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-56748-4_1
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