Northern Ireland introduces
a particularly interesting application of the term “shared sovereignty” is the
case of divided societies or “cultural shared sovereignty”. Northern Ireland
presents with two clearly defined sectors, that of the nationalists, mainly
Roman Catholics, and that of the unionists, mainly Protestants. This model applies
to two ethnic or nationality groups living in the same territory neither of
which wants to belong to a state dominated by the other.
With Northern Ireland, the
first posts differed from previous analysis presented by this blog series
TERRITORIAL DISPUTES. This time the series introduced the relationship between
national law and international law. From there, the relationship between the
law in the United Kingdom and the European Union was explored by presenting the
notion of supremacy or primacy (in a nutshell, European Union law has priority
over the national legal order of the Member States).
Thereafter, the particular
emphasis was on free movement of people, European Union citizenship, free
movements of goods, capital and services. These are the “four fundamental
freedoms” that all Member States part of the European Union reciprocally
recognize and that the United Kingdom, and therefore Northern Ireland, will
give up in 2019).
NOTE: The last posts this year include a recap
of all we have covered so far by including daily the relevant links.
Posts 85 to 115:
Northern Ireland
Previous posts on this series about Northern
Ireland (and the European Union):
Post 106: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 21)
Post 107: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 22)
Post 108: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 23)
Post 109: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 24)
Post 110: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 25)
Post 111: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 26)
Post 112: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 27)
Post 113: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 28)
Post 114: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 29)
Post 115: Territorial disputes: Northern Ireland (Part 30)
Jorge Emilio Núñez
Twitter: @London1701
25th December 2018
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