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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
I'm not a remoaner, I'm a leaver like the rest of the country. 
The Chatham House article was great but please look at its age - it was written months before the recent discussions about Articles 127. Here's a reminder of these developments. http://www.itv.com/news/2016-11-28/f...t-article-127/ |
I'll trump your Article 127 with Article 126.
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Article 127 also faces a problem by reason of the provision just before it in the EEA agreement. Article 126 provides that the EEA comprises the EU members (which the UK will presumably not be after Brexit) and three specific EFTA members (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein). Once the UK leaves the EU, it also departs from those listed in Article 126: the question is then whether it thereby departs from the EEA agreement as a whole, even though it is a separate signatory. And although Article 126 does not expressly say that it a closed list of EEA members, it does have the appearance of an exhaustive provision.
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