Welcome to the sixth part of our new short series where we talk about european dependencies and overseas territories! You can find an overview here. Todays topic: The British oversea territories. The British Overseas Territories are 14 territories under the jurisdiction and sovereignty of the United Kingdom. They are the remaining parts of the ...

Dec 9, 2021 · So first of all we're going to have to distinguish the Crown Dependencies from the Overseas Territories. If I'm not mistaken the Crown Dependencies are almost completely self-governing apart from when it comes to foreign policy issues, whereas the Overseas Territories have some self-governance, but their governors are appointed directly by Westminster (and …

Afaik w the British ones, they have far more autonomy, use a different version of the pound, don’t really get representation in parliament, and for a while the people who lived in these overseas territories weren’t really British in the sense that they had …

Oct 30, 2022 · Also, the status of the two British Overseas Territories in Cyprus is more complicated too. Technically, these areas are legally considered as sovereign Overseas Territories of the UK under leasing from the Republic of Cyprus, that's why the UK government has to pay rent to the Cypriot Government for the military bases there.

Nov 18, 2022 · Overseas Territories are colonies and so are more based on English law. Both of the Channel Islands had French language-based legal systems until after the second world war, and as part of their legal training you need to study in France for a while, including being fairly fluent in French in order to understand the old laws.

Jun 20, 2023 · The British Overseas Territories are fascinating to me; far-flung remnants of the British Empire which still want to be under UK sovereignty: Anguilla, Bermuda, the BVI, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Saint Helena, Turks and Caicos, and a handful of even smaller islands.

Sep 28, 2022 · The UK's "crown dependencies" and "overseas territories" all have roughly the same status. The UK government retains full sovereignty over them but, in practice, mostly allows them to manage their own affairs except for defence and international relations. Their inhabitants usually have full British citizenship.

The solution is to do as the French do, the bigger overseas territories, can be granted a specific MP, but the smaller ones should be grouped together and form "overseas" constituents. Then with additional "overseas" constituents, where people that vote from abroad is counted from.

French Overseas Territories are France. British Overseas Territories aren't the UK. The UK is limited to the areas that currently send MPs to Parliament (there's a concept in the Westminster system that "Parliament's jurisdiction only extends entirely to, from where its members come."

Oct 16, 2022 · Chagossians and human rights advocates have said that the Chagossian right of occupation was violated by the British Foreign Office as a result of the 1966 agreement between the British and American governments to provide an unpopulated island for a U.S. military base, and that additional compensation and a right of return be provided.