Regulating Tax Competition in the Internal Market: Is the European Commission Finally Changing Course?

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Tax competition and the EU internal market: from beneficial to ever more dangerous. – II.1. The place of tax provisions in the EU internal market setup. – II.2. Tax competition within the EU internal market. – II.3. Current position: “aggressive” tax competition calls for EU intervention. – III. Overcoming “...

The Future of Social Europe and of European Integration at a Crossroads: How Can We Recover and Enforce Solidarity as a Fundamental Principle of European Constitutional Law (or Die)?

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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...

Some Reflections on Achmea’s Broader Consequences for Investment Arbitration

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. A delicate good: autonomy of the EU legal order. – III. Consequences for CETA’s Investment Court System. – IV. Intra-EU BITs: national courts as the guardian of the Union of law. – V. Autonomy as an obstacle to the Union submitting to the jurisdiction of international courts or tribunals. – VI. The future of...

Institutionalising Solidarity: A Genuine Challenge for Europe

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. A remarkable piece of scholarship for the conceptual approach chosen. – III. Reflecting on the foundational concept: the centrality of collective bargaining.

Abstract: In Solidarity and Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018),...

The 2019 Elections and the Future Role of the European Parliament: Upsetting the Institutional Balance?

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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...

The Future of Social Europe and of European Integration at a Crossroads: How Can We Recover and Enforce Solidarity as a Fundamental Principle of European Constitutional Law (or Die)?

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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 Pernicious Influence of Citizenship Rights on Workers’ Rights in the EU: The Case of Student Finance

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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”...

The Right to Participate in the European Elections and the Vertical Division of Competences in the European Union

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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. An enforceable right to participate in European elections. – III. The broad scope of application of the right to participate in European elections vis-à-vis Member States. – III.1. A right applicable to Member States. – III.2. A right applicable in purely internal situations. – IV. The right to...

EU Citizenship: Some Systemic Constitutional Implications

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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....

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