Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The EU decision to assist Ukraine: a watershed yet not unpredictable moment. – III. The international relevance of the EU assistance to Ukraine. – IV. A measure of collective self-defence? – V. Attributing the assistance in favour of Ukraine to the EU Member States: the general criteria of arts 4 ARS and 6...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The legal principles governing EU coordination in international law-making fora: a weakness or a strength of Member States' external sovereignty? – III. The case of the Maritime Labour Convention: the journey of human rights from the EU to China via international law. – III.1. The Convention and the EU's...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The EU control of harmful tax measures: the Code of Conduct for Business Taxation and other forms of cooperation between tax authorities. – III. State aid law as a tool against harmful tax measures. – IV. The rocky road to corporate tax harmonisation. – V. Is the EU overstepping its powers? Conclusive...
The celebrated work of Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, opens with a concise yet terse sentence: “[a]ll states and governments that ever ruled over men have been either republics or monarchies”. This blunt sentence summarises, in a nutshell, the two dilemmas of the political thought of the antiquities: the dilemma about the form of government and the dilemma about...
Abstract: The functioning of the Schengen area and, more broadly, of European external borders, have been under considerable strain due to increased migration flows, the COVID-19 pandemic and security threats. These developments have tested Member States’ and EU agencies’ compliance with EU rules and principles, and the viability of the
...Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Thinking infrastructurally about Schengen. – III. Schengen as legal infrastructure. – IV. Infrastructural connections beyond the EU. – V. Conclusion.
Abstract: Human mobility has always been a pre-condition for human development, yet few issues today remain...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction: structuralising crisis. – II. “Crisification”: the incremental normalisation of exceptions. – III. The 2015 ”Refugee Crisis”: the suspension of governance (as a form of governance) – III.1. Relocation (and Dublin prorogation) – III.2. The Hotspot Fiasco – IV. The New Pact Reforms: generalising derogations – IV.1....
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The two-step accession to Schengen. – II.1. Schengen accession under primary law. – II.2. Schengen accession under secondary law. – III. Application of the Schengen acquis in Schengen candidate states. – III.1. Binding but not applicable. – III.2. Defining Schengen’s external borders. – III.3. The...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Rainbow families’ parental rights in the EU: charting progress through law and politics. – II.1. From courtrooms to Commission: the evolution of LGBTIQ parenthood recognition in EU law. – II.2. Political strategy of the Regulation proposal. – III. Concerns on the efficiency of the EU legislative mechanism...
