Table of Contents: I. A reference point in the crucial debate about social Europe. – II. Social Europe and European integration today: a worrying picture. – III. A constructive approach. – IV. Judicial enforcement of solidarity: possibilities and limitations. – V. Strengthening cooperation and synergies (il faut cultiver notre jardin). – VI...
The elections of May 26 have been welcomed with a sense of relief by the inhabitants of the European districts in Brussels and Strasbourg. If, on the eve of the elections’ day, the dominant mood was fear of a euro-sceptic landslide, that would have deepened the cleavage between peoples and elites and shaken at its roots the process of integration, this mood has gradually...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Setting the scene. – II.1. Applicable nationality – Ranking and mobility quality. – II.2. Constellations. – II.3. Right to return – Conditions (Home MS(/MS) movement MS/Home MS). – II.4. “Circular” right to return – (Home MS/MS movement Home MS/Home MS). – II.5. Naturalisation – Lounes (Home MS/MS...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. From Safe Harbour to Privacy Shield: EU-US data transfer as a feedback loop. – II.1. Action: Safe Harbour and the first agreement on EU-US data transfer. – II.2. Effect: Safe Harbour invalidated by the CJEU in Schrems. – II.3. Feedback: Safe Harbour...
Table of Contents: I. Citizenships in Europe: harmony and conflict. – I.1. A curious legal status perched on limitations. – I.2. EU citizenship: two lessons. – II. EU citizenship: questioning the established narrative. – II.1. Empowering the citizen – Humiliating the State. – II.2. Promoting democracy – Undermining democratic outcomes. – II.3....
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The perplexing extension of “sufficient links” tests to frontier workers’ social advantages. – II.1. A questionable but minor initial development. – II.2. A problematic extension to student finance. – II.3. A clear break with established case law and secondary law. – III. A contentious “investor’s approach”...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Setting the scene: legal characteristics of the “triangular” fundamental rights protection system. – III. The modern protection of fundamental rights. – IV. The Court’s “substance of the rights” doctrine. – V. The way forward: taking the “substance of the rights” doctrine a step further. – V.1. Delimiting...
Table of Contents: I. Sovereign default: the same old story. – II. The European debt crisis: a first timid step towards a possible solution. – III. The European Citizens’ Initiatives: an introductory overview. – IV. The Anagnostakis case. – V. Final remarks.
Abstract: This Article...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. A five-step evolution: integration, lawful residence and social benefits. – II.1. Step 1: the early cases. – II.2. Step 2: the reign of vague legal formulas. – II.3. Step 3: the Förster judgment as a turning point. – II.4. Step 4: Ziółkowski & Szeja and the (new) dominance of Directive...
