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The European Citizens’ Initiative: Giving Voice to EU Citizens
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Anastasia Karatzia PhD Researcher, School of Law, University of Surrey Introduction The term European or, more precisely, European Union (EU) citizenship finds expression within a web of rights and responsibilities contained in primary and sec...
Proposed Changes to Simplified Merger Notification Procedure
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Robert Miklós Babirad J.D. Masters Diploma candidate in EU Law, King’s College London; Post Graduate Diploma in EU Law (Merit); Member of the New York Bar I Introduction...
REVIEW: EU Law Panels at the International Graduate Legal Research Conference (IGLRC) 2013 at King’s College London, 8-9 April 2013
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Christy Burzio and Adrienne Yong PhD Candidates at King’s College London It was a great privilege for the authors of this post to have been present for the seventh annual IGLRC held at King’s College London on the 8-9 April 2013. I...
The Single Banking Supervisor: A giant’s step towards a genuine EMU?
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Andrea Redondo LL.M in European Law and Economic Analysis, College of Europe; BSc Economics and Finance, LSE; LLB, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Universidad Complutense of Madrid Introduction On 5 December 2012 a repor...
Effective judicial protection in the European Year of Citizens 2013
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Mehmed Yuseinov LLB Law and European Studies graduate from the University of Portsmouth In its practice exceeding more than fifty years, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has developed several seminal legal principles with an a...
Radu judgment: A lost opportunity and a story of how the mutual trust obsession shelved human rights
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Ermioni Xanthopoulou PhD Candidate, King’s College London On 29th January 2013, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment in the Radu case.[i] In this case the Court was asked to interpret the Framewor...
What They Signed For – An Introduction to the Unified Patent Court
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Justin Koo LLB, LLM PhD student, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London Introducing the UPC According to the European Commission, the Unified Patent Court (UPC) is one of the primary aspects of the ‘patent package’...
Towards a Financial Transaction Tax: the Commission’s proposed Directive of February 14
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Pierre-Antoine Klethi LLM Candidate, King’s College London The issue of introducing a financial transaction tax (hereinafter – FTT) at the EU’s border came back in the frontline in the aftermath of the financial crisis, as an...
FEATURED: KCL’s International Graduate Legal Research Conference 2013
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A featured event invite for a brilliant Graduate Research Conference organised by PhD students at King’s College London’s Dickson Poon School of Law The seventh annual International Graduate Legal Research Conference (IGLRC) will b...
Case Comment: C-523/11 and C-585/11 Prinz and Seeberger – AG Sharpston strikes again
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Re-posted from the Eutopia Law Blog Adrienne Yong PhD Candidate at King’s College London Yet another chapter of the European citizenship saga sought clarification by AG Sharpston in the Prinz and Seeberger Opinion delivered...
Energy Efficiency in EU law: A Conundrum?
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Gianni Lo Schiavo LL.M., College of Europe
PhD Candidate, the Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London 1. Introduction Energy efficiency constitutes the third pillar of the “20+20+20” initiative of...
Accession to the ECHR: The Never Ending Story
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Amanda Spalding LLM student at King’s College London On the 1st of December 2009 the new Treaty on the European Union came into force. Article 6(2) of that treaty provided that the EU shall accede to the European Convention on Human Righ...
Call for Papers – 2013: Year of the Citizen
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KSLR European Law Blog hereby invites you to submit abstracts on the topic of “2013: Year of the Citizen” A ringing declaration from the EU institutions heralded 2013 as “Year of the Citizen”, instigating debate suited...
EU Competition Policy’s Broad Application
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Robert Miklós Babirad 1 Introduction On October 18, 2012, Mr. Joaquín Almunia, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy delivered a...
‘(I Can Live) With or Without You’, the Opinion of Advocate General Bot in Joined Cases C-274/11 and C-295/11, Spain and Italy v Council, on the use of the enhanced co-operation procedure for the establishment of the EU patent system
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Jose Manuel Panero Rivas MA in Economics for Competition Law candidate, King’s College London, LL.M in European Law, College of Europe, Bruges On 11 December 2012, Advocate General Bot delivered his opinion on Joined Cases C-274/11 (Spai...
Italian Golden Shares – a Never-Ending Story?
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Jelena Ganza PhD candidate, Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College London The obligation of sincere co-operation[i] of all Member States entails, inter alia, the national governments to comply with judgements of the Court of Justice of t...
Nationalism and the European project
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Nikolay Domanov LLM, MA in International Relations, Sofia University; Post-Graduate Diploma candidate in EU Competition Law, King’s College London An idea with tremendous potential, a clear vision and huge emotional discharge emerged six decade...
Some thoughts concerning the EU’s Nobel Peace Prize
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Jose Manuel Panero MA in Economics for Competition Law candidate, King’s College London; LL.M in European Law, College of Europe Andrea Redondo LL.M in European Law and Economic Analysis, College of Europe; BSc Economics and Finance LSE; LLB, Unive...
The New Proposal on Reception Conditions for Asylum Seekers: Genuine Change or Putting Lipstick on a Pig?
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Amanda Spalding LLM student at King’s College London This September the European Parliament voted to reinforce asylum seekers’ rights in the Member States.[1] This is a welcome development given that the EU states’ record on asylum i...
“I want to break free” – Implications of breaking Commission’s seals during antitrust investigations, Case C-89/11 P E.On v Commission [2012]
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Andrea Redondo LL.M in European Law and Economic Analysis, College of Europe; BSc Economics and Finance, LSE; LLB, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Universidad Complutense of Madrid In the judgment, delivered on 22 November 2012, the...
