1st Edition
EU and CARICOM Dilemmas versus Opportunities on Development, Law and Economics
Investigating the unique EU-CARICOM legal relationship, this book explores
the major theme of globalisation, which shapes inter-regional organisations
individually and determines their relationship to one another. It evaluates how
EU-CARICOM relations have fostered trade, security and other development
measures, reflecting on the past, future and present of the Caribbean states that
are active in the EU-CARICOM framework.
Providing case studies on key issues such as immigration, tax and energy, it
examines the impact that the EU-CARICOM has on the slave trade and the
deportation of millions of people. Such bitter experiences still indirectly shape
culture, hopes and the economic framework of possibilities today; therefore, the
focus of the volume is on the issues which the constant stream of globalisation
creates. The book assesses many potential impacts that the agenda of the EU
and Brexit pending will have upon the EU-CARICOM relationship, given the
potential for these to create instability.
Overall, it highlights how the EU and CARICOM are representations for
multilateralism and serve as models that provide the basis for many successful
initiatives and agreements. In all new agreements and negotiations, the will to
accept the Sustainable Development Goals and thus to make inequality, climate
change and other goals of the SDGs the basis of an order that puts people
at the centre, are evaluated, and the global agenda 2030 and its impact on
EU-CARICOM.
Overall, it highlights how the EU and CARICOM are representations for
multilateralism and serve as models that provide the basis for many successful
initiatives and agreements. In all new agreements and negotiations, the will to
accept the Sustainable Development Goals and thus to make inequality, climate
change and other goals of the SDGs the basis of an order that puts people
at the centre, are evaluated, and the global agenda 2030 and its impact on
EU-CARICOM.
FOREWORD FROM THE EDITOR OF THE BOOK SERIES
FOREWORD FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE CARIBBEAN COURT OF JUSTICE
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1: The EU-CARICOM in Context
Alicia Elias-Roberts, Stephen Hardy and Winfried Huck
PART I: BREXIT AND EU-CARICOM RELATIONS
Chapter 2: The impact of BREXIT: In search of a new legal order?
Stephen Hardy
Chapter 3: The impact of the UK’s BREXIT on Anti-suit injunctions
Margaret Liu
PART II: TRADE AND SECURITY IN EU-CARICOM
Chapter 4: EU-CARICOM Trade Law as a tool for development?
Achim Rogmann
Chapter 5: Building a digital anchor: a legal perspective on a prospective improvement of electronic data interchange in maritime trade
Hannes Prochno
Chapter 6: European Union and CARICOM: current challenges and potential solutions in the energy and investment sector
Claudia Kurkin
PART III: TAXATION AND IMMIGRATION IN EU-CARICOM
Chapter 7: Select jurisprudence of the CJEU and CCJ – a comparative perspective
Anthony Gafoor
Chapter 8: From Haven to Blacklist: UK, EU and Caribbean Co-operation on tax avoidance, after BREXIT
Stuart MacLennan
Chapter 9: Impoverished Law: A Review of Trinidad and Tobago’s Immigration Act
Aschille Clarke-Mendes
PART IV: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND REGIONAL GOVERNANCE ISSUES IN THE EU-CARICOM
Chapter 10: CARICOM Regional Integration and Challenges in Maritime Law – a case study of Guyana’s Offshore Energy Developments
Alicia Elias-Roberts
Chapter 11: SDGs and its impact on African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States and CARICOM – soft law on its way through the legal order
Winfried Huck
Chapter 12: National Champions and their impact on trade, trade policy and SDGs
Fabian Stancke
Chapter 13: Charting a path to sustainable development: goals of CARICOM and the EU
Cherisse Francis
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter 14: Reflections for the future
Alicia Elias-Roberts, Stephen Hardy and Winfried Huck
Index
Biography
Alicia Elias-Roberts is Deputy Dean and Lecturer in law, Faculty of Law, the
University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
Stephen Hardy is Professor of Law and a scholar in employment law. He is
currently Head of the Coventry Law School, Coventry University, UK.
Winfried Huck is Professor of International and European Economic Law and
Dean at the Brunswick European Law School, Ostfalia University of Applied
Sciences, Wolfenbüttel, Germany.
