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Melloni and the future of constitutional conflict in the EU
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Dr Dorota Leczykiewicz Constitutional conflict is a leitmotif of the relationship between EU law and national law. Courts of EU Member States are under a dual obligation of loyalty. On the one hand, they need to apply and respect their … Conti...
The Air Passenger as a European Citizen?
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Dr Jeremias Prassl Frank S Benyon (ed), Services and the EU Citizen (Hart Publishing: Oxford, 2013) £55 The most recent volume in Hart Publishing’s Modern Studies in European Law series is a collection of essays edited by Frank S Ben...
The Hungarian Dilemma from a Pluralist Perspective
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Matej Avbelj [This piece was originally posted on the Verfassungsblog and is re-posted here with permission. Readers may be interested in reading earlier posts on developments in Hungary, such as those by Kim Lane Scheppele here and here.] &nbs...
The UK Immigration Bill and EU law
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Dr Iyiola Solanke ‘My government will bring forward a bill that further reforms Britain’s immigration system. The bill will ensure that this country attracts people who will contribute and deters those who will not.’ Every governmen...
Seven Days in Europe
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On Monday 15 out of 27 Member States voted for a two-year ban on pesticides thought to be harmful to bees, giving the Commission the final say on whether to approve the ban. It was passed despite fierce lobbying from … Continue reading →...
Thatcher’s EU Policy: A Personal Perspective
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Dr Gunnar Beck I arrived in this country as a student from Germany very shortly before Mrs. Thatcher resigned as British Prime Minister. I still remember that much of her party had fallen out of love with her in 1990, … Continue reading →...
Case Comment: Las v PSA Antwerp NV (C-202/11)
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Michèle Finck, University of Oxford On 16 April 2013, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union (hereafter referred to as ‘the Court’ or ‘the CJEU’) delivered its judgment in Anton Las. At issue in...
Case Comment: HMRC v Aimia Coalition Loyalty UK Ltd [2013] UKSC 15
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Matthew Wentworth-May Last month the Supreme Court decided, by a majority of 3-2, to dismiss the appeal of the Commissioners for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. The decision followed a reference to the Court of Justice of the European Union...
Racism, Human Rights and Policing Wrongs
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Dr Iyiola Solanke April 22nd 2013 marked the 20th anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. His life and brutal death remains an important watershed for the pursuit of racial equality in Britain, especially via the use of anti-racial discriminat...
Both ‘More Europe’ and ‘Less’: Some Thoughts on ‘Political Union’ and the Eurozone Crisis
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Prof. Peter Lindseth Below is an excerpt of remarks that will be delivered at the conference ‘Political, Fiscal, and Banking Union in the Eurozone?’, taking place on April 25 at the European University Institute. EUI’s Department of...
Cyprus … or Why the ‘No-Demos Problem’ Defines the Policy Response to the Eurozone Crisis
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Prof. Peter Lindseth Mervyn King’s now almost legendary quip about the global financial crisis—that global banks are ‘international in life, but national in death’—applies with even greater force to the Eurozone crisis.&...
Kadi II
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Conor Gearty Yves Bot had a long career as a senior French prosecutor behind him when in 2006 he joined the European Court of Justice as an Advocate General. It has fallen to him to provide an advisory opinion in … Continue reading &rarr...
Reforming Air Passenger Rights in the European Union
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Dr Jeremias Prassl Fellow, St John’s College, University of Oxford Commission Proposal [COM(2013) 130] for a Regulation amending Regulation 261/2004 The enactment of Regulation 261/2004 on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event...
Akerberg and Melloni: what the Court said, did and may have left open
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John Morijn With Akerberg and Melloni the CJEU issued two important judgments on 26 February 2013. After a first post about Akerberg, in this second part John considers Melloni and the Court’s application of article 53 of the Charter of &hellip...
Original Sin: the EU tampering with the right to property in Cyprus is an unprecedented departure from EU norms and shared constitutional rights
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Anastasios A. Antoniou The facts are well-settled by now and the majority of us know that on the evening of 15/3/13, Eurozone finance ministers agreed on an extraordinary course of action in response to Cyprus’ request for a bail-out of &hellip...
Sturgeon revisited (yet again): Case C-11/11 Air France v Folkerts
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Dr Jeremias Prassl Regulation 261/2004 on common rules on compensation and assistance to passengers in the event of denied boarding and of cancellation or long delay of flights continues to trigger litigation in the highest Member State courts. A cle...
The Cyprus Bailout, Deposit Guarantees, and the Single Market (Updated)
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Prof. Peter Lindseth [This is a slightly updated and modified version of a post that appeared on europaeus|law over the weekend. It is cross-posted here with permission.] We’re all monitoring the intense fallout from the&n...
Protecting Democracy and the Rule of Law inside the EU; or: Why Europe Needs a Copenhagen Commission
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Jan-Werner Mueller Could there be a dictatorship inside the European Union? If such a spectre appeared, should Brussels somehow step in to shore up democracy? Or would this constitute an illegitimate form of meddling in the domestic affai...
Seven Days in Europe
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The EU’s full ban on testing cosmetics on animals came into force. As from Monday cosmetics tested on animals cannot be marketed in the EU. The Commission, having considered the impacts of the marketing ban, decided the development of cosmetics...
Akerberg and Melloni: what the ECJ said, did and may have left open
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John Morijn In the first of two posts on the CJEU’s important recent judgments in Akerberg and Melloni, John considers the Akerberg case and in particular its interpretation of article 51(1) of the Charter of Fundamental Rights. In dealing with...
