Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. Case facts and questions raised. – 3. The Opinion of Advocate General Ćapeta and the Court’s decision. – 4. Barało and suspect vulnerability: another missed opportunity. – 4.1. Understanding vulnerability: a multifaceted concept deserving adequate legal protection. – 4.2. The ‘Suspect...
Table of contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. The meaning of the principle of energy solidarity and its emergence as a legally binding principle. – 2.1. Definition of the principle of energy solidarity. – 2.2. The Opal Case: The emergence of energy solidarity as a fundamental legal principle. – 3. The principle of energy solidarity in interplay with...
Table of Contents: 1. The EU orthodox and unorthodox social competences: an introduction. – 2. The social dimension of EU internal market powers: temporal, substantive and strategic considerations. – 2.1. Structural transitions and working conditions: insights from Directive 2001/23 and Directive 98/59. – 3....
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. Preliminary ruling instead of direct review: interpretation with(out) (limited) facts. – 3. Anonymity before the law: direct or indirect (factual) identifiers removed. – 4. Access to written submissions: default generalised anonymous transparency. – 5. Connecting the dots: towards requests for additional...
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. The Guichet Unique Mechanism: Practical functioning and scope of examination. – 3. Key figures and first review after nine months of implementation of the Reform. – 4. Concluding remarks.
Abstract: The present article offers an...
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. Setting the stage: two courts ut one procedure. – 3. Rules concerning Advocates General before the General Court. – 3.1. Election of Advocates General at the General Court. – 3.2. The dual role of Advocates General of the General Court and its organisational consequences. – 4. The role of Advocates General at...
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. Approaching constitutionalisation. – 3. Elements of the 2024 reform strengthening the Court of Justice’s constitutional role. – 3.1. Aims of the reform. – 3.2. Allocation of cases between the EU courts. – 3.3. Safeguard mechanisms. – 3.4. Specialisation of the General Court. – 4. Problematising...
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. From Member State dependency to EU information hub. – 2.1. The first steps towards Europol’s emergence as an information hub. – 2.2. Two decisive changes to Europol’s founding acts. – 2.3. The Recast Europol Regulation. – 3. Europol’s involvement in different areas of EU police and judicial cooperation in...
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. From Prüm over Prüm Next Generation to Prüm II. – 3. Orchestrated stakeholders’ consultation manifesting asymmetries of power. – 4. Two prospective changes in the Prüm system and still silenced substantial challenges they raise. – 4.1. In the name of ‘interoperability’: unsettling data sovereignty of Member...
Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. – 2. National Security. – 2.1. Definition and Scope. – 2.2. Private Sector and the Expanding Application of EU Law. – 3. The Legal Uncertainty Arising from the Current Delineation of the Scope of EU Data Protection Law. – 3.1. Narrowing the Scope Back Down? The Draft E-Privacy Regulation. – 3.2. National Security...
