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...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. A brief (constitutional) history of Kosovo. – III. Human rights in Kosovo’s legal order. – III.1. Constitutional integration. – III.2. Judicial application. – IV. Standard-setting, monitoring and cooperation mechanisms. – IV.1. The Horizontal Facility. – IV.2. Other programmes and projects. – IV.3. From...
Table of Contents: I. Setting the scene: introductory remarks. – II. The possibility to reopen a case and ne bis in idem: main theoretical issues. – III. Retrial and ne bis in idem in Europe through the lens of the Charter, the ECHR and the CISA. – IV. A focus on the ECHR: Art. 4 of Protocol 7 as a benchmark for cases reopening in...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. Air quality and EU law. – III. The CJEU’s case law on AQD. – III.1. Public enforcement. – III.2. Private enforcement. – IV. The JP judgement: no right to seek damages caused by air pollution. – IV.1. Damages are no longer a necessary corollary of direct effect. – IV.2. Member Staes liability for...
Table of Contents: I. Introduction. – II. A brief (constitutional) history of Kosovo. – III. Human rights in Kosovo’s legal order. – III.1. Constitutional integration. – III.2. Judicial application. – IV. Standard-setting, monitoring and cooperation mechanisms. – IV.1. The Horizontal Facility. – IV.2. Other programmes and projects. – IV.3. From...
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....
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
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