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The Externalisation of EU Migration Policies in Light of EU Constitutional Principles and Values: Reconciling the Irreconcilable? An Introduction to the Special Section
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Abstract: In recent years, the European Union (EU) has substantially intensified its activities directed at externalising border/migration management towards the territories of third countries. This specific model of EU migration management is often realized at the expense of democratic scrutiny, judicial supervision, transparency and, most...
The Value of Democracy in EU Law and Its Enforcement: A Legal Analysis
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Democracy as a value of EU Law. – II.1. The development of the value of democracy in the European Union – II.2. The value of democracy in art. 2 TEU and the Copenhagen criteria – III. The value of democracy beyond art. 2 TEU. – III.1. Right to vote and to stand as a candidate – III.2. Art. 10 TEU – III.3....
EU External Cooperation on Migration: In Search of the Treaty Principles
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The EU Treaty as guidance for rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights. – II.1. Constitutionalisation of the EU values. – II.2. Guidance for the Member States. – II.3. Guidance for the EU. – II.4. Guidance for the external dimension of EU action. – III. External dimension of EU asylum and migration...
The Ne Bis in Idem Principle in the Age of Balancing
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Table of Contents: I. Dual-track proceedings and the current scope of protection. – II. The need for a clear notion of “idem”. – III. The “sufficiently close connection in substance and time”: ECtHR case-law post A and B v Norway. – IV. The “sufficiently close connection in substance and time”: the unspoken balancing act engaged in by the...
The Informalisation of EU Readmission Policy: Eclipsing Human Rights Protection Under the Shadow of Informality and Conditionality
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Table of Contents: I. Informality and the EU external action on migration and asylum. – I.1. Informalisation and cooperation on the readmission. – I.2. Growing interest in informalisation: a literature review. – II. Informalisation, soft law and soft agreements: key concepts and definitions in the readmission policy field. – II.1. Understanding...
Introduction: Future-proof Regulation and Enforcement for the Digitalised Age
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Abstract: This Special Section is devoted to assessing whether core areas and core values of European law are future-proof (and how they could or should be made future-proof) in light of developments in terms of digitalisation and technological innovation. It is the result of a joint project of researchers at the Utrecht Centre for Regulation and...
The Informalisation of EU Readmission Policy: Eclipsing Human Rights Protection Under the Shadow of Informality and Conditionality
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Table of Contents: I. Informality and the EU external action on migration and asylum. – I.1. Informalisation and cooperation on the readmission. – I.2. Growing interest in informalisation: a literature review. – II. Informalisation, soft law and soft agreements: key concepts and definitions in the readmission policy field. – II.1. Understanding...
Internal Market 3.0: The Old 'New Approach' for Harmonising AI Regulation
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The evolution of the “New Approach” to harmonisation in the EU: setting the scene. – II.1. The “New Approach” to technical harmonisation. – II.2. The Digital Single Market. – III. Harmonisation in the Draft AI Act: old wine in a new bottle, or new wine? – III.1. Risk-based approach of the Draft AI Act. – III...
Market Power and the GDPR: Can Consent Given to Dominant Companies Ever Be Freely Given?
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Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. The Facebook case. – II.1. Case overview. – II.2. The opinion of the AG. – III. Dominance for GDPR purposes. – III.1. Market power and the GDPR. – III.2. Dominance in AG Ranto’s opinion. – III.3. The definition of “gatekeeper” under the DMA. – IV. Dominance and the validity of consent. – IV.1. Freely given...
























