In July 2012, as part of Britain’s public debate about the terms of Britain’s membership of the European Union, the Foreign Secretary asked for wide discussion as to whether the balance of powers between the member states and the EU, as conferred by Treaty, is appropriate in today’s Britain.
Since then the government has been conducting formal consultation sessions in different policy areas. Dr Anne Corbett, an associate of LSE, collaborating with LSE Enterprise, contributed this evidence to the Balance of Competence Enquiry as it related to education.
She accounts for the fact that education has moved from being a problematic issue for the EU to being part of the core strategy as an indication that there has been an EU solution to an age old problem: how to secure the benefits of wider European cooperation and coordination in a globalised world without impinging in a contentious way on national sovereignty.
Dr Corbett says: 'Development has been organic. Multiple players have shaped the outcome and many of them are saying loudly that they do not see the case for going backwards.'
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