Mathijs80 schreef op 11 november 2011 10:21:
Beschouwing van de ECB in 2009:
www.ecb.int/pub/pdf/scplps/ecblwp10.pdf"Withdrawal and expulsion from the EU and EMU"
Abstract
This paper examines the issues of secession and expulsion from the European Union
(EU) and Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). It concludes that negotiated
withdrawal from the EU would not be legally impossible even prior to the ratification of
the Lisbon Treaty, and that unilateral withdrawal would undoubtedly be legally
controversial; that, while permissible, a recently enacted exit clause is, prima facie, not
in harmony with the rationale of the European unification project and is otherwise
problematic, mainly from a legal perspective; that a Member State’s exit from EMU,
without a parallel withdrawal from the EU, would be legally inconceivable; and that,
while perhaps feasible through indirect means, a Member State’s expulsion from the EU
or EMU, would be legally next to impossible. This paper concludes with a reminder that
while, institutionally, a Member State’s membership of the euro area would not survive
the discontinuation of its membership of the EU, the same need not be true of the former
Member State’s use of the euro.