Kassoti, E.;
(2019)
The EU’s duty of non-recognition and the territorial scope of trade agreements covering unlawfully acquired territories.
Europe and the World: A law review
, 3
(5)
pp. 1-18.
10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2019.15.
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Abstract
Recently, the international legality of the EU’s economic activity in unlawfully acquired territories has gained much salience. Claims are increasingly heard that the duty of non-recognition requires the inapplicability of trade agreements to unlawfully acquired territories. In this light, this article attempts a survey of the relevant EU practice by focusing on the case-studies of Palestine and Western Sahara. The main question examined here is whether the EU has acted in breach of its obligation of non-recognition by concluding agreements with third States that extend to unlawfully acquired territories. Overall, this article argues that there is a growing gap between EU identity rhetoric as a promoter of international law and its actual practice on the ground.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The EU’s duty of non-recognition and the territorial scope of trade agreements covering unlawfully acquired territories |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2019.15 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.ewlj.2019.15 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | c 2019, Eva Kassoti. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited |
| Keywords: | unlawful territorial situations; duty of non-recognition; the right to self-determination; EU trade agreements |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077354 |
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