In this video, Dr Lorand Bartels considers the position of the UK within the WTO, clarifying that the UK is an original member of the WTO, and in many respects the position remains the same notwithstanding the Brexit process. He discusses the rights, and also the obligations, of WTO membership.
Article 218 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union sets out the EU’s rules for conducting negotiations with third parties. It applies to negotiations between the EU and one or more non-member states or international organisations.
In these Turbo Talks, leading academic commentators from the University of Cambridge highlight the issues facing the UK as it seeks to negotiate a Brexit agreement in the wake of the ‘leave’ result of the referendum on EU membership.
With reference to the article, these videos seek to explain key issues within a target of 218 seconds.
For more information about the academics, please see the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge (https://www.law.cam.ac.uk) or the Centre for European Legal Studies (CELS) (https://www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk).