Explaining the EU deal
The Prime Minister’s EU renegotiation deal, or “new settlement for the United Kingdom”, is a package of changes to EU rules being discussed by European leaders on 18 and 19 February.
There’s been a great deal of speculation about whether the changes are significant and, separately, whether the deal itself will stick.
As these are first and foremost legal questions, we’ve asked a network of top EU legal experts, co-ordinated by Professor Catherine Barnard of Cambridge and Professor Eleanor Spaventa of Durham, to answer them.
Beginning on 17 February, we'll be publishing a series of pieces by these experts on what the EU deal changes.
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Some individual changes will be important to many—particularly when it comes to benefits and the free movement of people.
The series on the EU covers: