September 16, 2013
Law professor offers constitutional arguments for the disclosure of important Council documents. The General Court orders partial disclosure, but only on procedural grounds. By Maarten Hillebrandt
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July 15, 2013
VG Wort v Kyocera is the most recent chapter in the Court of Justice’s effort to make sense of the Copyright Directive’s provisions on the private copying exception and the levies applicable for unauthorized acts of reproduction by end-users. In a context where over EUR 600 million of levies are collect in the EU every… » read more
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June 24, 2013
The draft accession agreement has many objectionable features. Never has the citizens’ perspective been the EU concern during negotiations. Diplomatic secretiveness, an exceptional treatment of the European Court of Justice in honour of its claimed constitutional ‘prerogatives’ (the ‘prior involvement’ procedure), and the complications of a ‘co-respondent mechanism’, resulted naturally. And yet, accession would be… » read more
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June 18, 2013
On 11 and 12 June 2013 the Bundesverfassungsgericht (German Constitutional Court; GCC) held the hearings for the ECB case. One might be forgiven to think: ‘Another case concerning the measures taken to save the Euro?!’ Indeed in 2011 and 2012, judicial contestations of the legal instruments aimed to mitigate the Eurocrisis were decided by the… » read more
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June 6, 2013
Research into ‘postnational’ things is very fashionable at the moment. Yet there appears to be little agreement about the content of the term ‘postnational’. Worse, there even appears to be little discussion. And worse still is that there might not be enough awareness of the persisting inconsistency in the use of the term. Too few… » read more
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The European Union Criminal Law is now developing rapidly, but apparently the development of the rights of the suspect goes at a far more modest pace. This is partly due to uncertainties regarding the distribution of the responsibility between the member states, which here is exemplified by the suspects right to damages for being surrendered… » read more
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Hungary is walking off the road of constitutional democracy, the rule of law and the protection of fundamental rights, which it has firmly endorsed since its transition in 1989 from one-party system to a democratic society with checks and balances. While this is a worrying phenomenon in itself, it constitutes a major challenge to the… » read more
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March 27, 2013
Many EU researchers combine the study of rules and practices, in an attempt to grapple with, and do justice to the complexity of European integration. Indeed, whether in legal studies or the social sciences, it is deemed good practice to make this distinction. But what does it mean? And are we using it in a… » read more
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March 22, 2013
With 2/3 of the people in Cyprus preferring to leave the Eurozone (Cyprexit or Cexit?), one wonders what the legal avenue would be to give up the Euro. By Marijn van der Sluis Much has been said about the economic and political pros and cons of a member state leaving the Euro. Legal academics however,… » read more
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March 19, 2013
Elaine Fahey and Marija Bartl of ACELG and ACSECL examine politico-legal aspects of the Transatlantic Trade Partnership under negotiation between the EU and US currently in an Opinion in the EUObserver.com, on 18 March. The Transatlantic Partnership (TP) poses fundamental politico-legal questions with potentially far reaching implications for our future. They ask what is being… » read more
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