POSEBAN STATUS VELIKE BRITANIJE UNUTAR EVROPSKE UNIJE

Zečević Slobodan (Институт за европске студије, Београд), vzecevic@eunet.rs

On the European Council meeting of 16 February 2016, the British Prime Minister David Cameron obtained a “special status” for the United Kingdom in the European Union. About a further EU membership, the British voters will decide in a referendum scheduled for 23 June 2016. The “special status” implies that the provision of the treaty of the European Union about “as close as possible Union among member states” in future will not be applicable to the UK, but that also include the right for the British government to apply a discriminatory measures in the field of social care between newly arrived European and British workers. Great Britain did not get a right to veto the decision of ministers of finance of the euro zone. The UK government aims to achieve a maximum benefit, but at the same time to participate less in the integration process in the European Union. Thereby the British impede a progress towards greater unity and solidarity in the European Union, which is obviously necessary to respond to the challenges of the globalized world (economic crisis, migrations)

Ključne reči: The European Union, The European Council, a special status, social care, discrimination, the legal order of the European Union, federalism, the euro-zone