First-Ever EU Funding of Lethal Weapons: 'Another Taboo Has (Lawfully) Fallen'

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M. Eugenia Bartoloni

Keywords: supply of lethal arms – CFSP – European Peace Facility – Ukraine – territorial integrity – international security.

By decision of 28 February 2022,[1] the Council of the EU unanimously decided to fund (in the amount of euro 1 840 000 000, as last increased by Council...

European Papers, 08.07.2022 | Posted in
The International Dimension of European Integration, The external action of the European Union, Security and military integration

International and European Emergency Assistance to EU Member States in the COVID-19 Crisis: Why European Solidarity Is Not Dead and What We Need to Make It both Happen and Last

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Charlotte Beaucillon

Abstract: It is of course too early to draw conclusions about the European Union’s response to the COVID-19 crisis in its Member States while we are still in the midst of the health crisis. On the other hand, it is already possible to correct the widely shared first impression that European solidarity had been shattered. The available public data...

European Papers, 25.04.2020 | Posted in
The Constitutional Dimension of the European Union, Competences, Internal Market - Freedoms of Movement and Competition Law, Internal market - Economic freedoms of movement, Citizenship, EU Policies and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Economic and monetary union, Visas, asylum and immigration, The European Integration Through Human Rights, Protection of human rights in Europe, The International Dimension of European Integration, Security and military integration, International trade law and policy

Citizenship, Coronavirus and Questions of Competence

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Stephen Coutts

Abstract: Restrictions on movement imposed in all Member States have necessarily resulted in a restriction of free movement rights of Union citizens, albeit in an incidental manner. These restrictions are nonetheless facilitated by the relevant provisions of primary and secondary law. This is appropriate in light of the multi-level system of...

European Papers, 25.04.2020 | Posted in
The Constitutional Dimension of the European Union, Competences, Internal Market - Freedoms of Movement and Competition Law, Internal market - Economic freedoms of movement, Citizenship, EU Policies and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Union Policies, Economic and monetary union, Visas, asylum and immigration, The European Integration Through Human Rights, Protection of human rights in Europe, Solidarity and economic and social rights, The International Dimension of European Integration, The external action of the European Union, Security and military integration, International trade law and policy

Rethinking Solidarity in View of the Wanting Internal and External EU Law Framework Concerning Trade Measures in the Context of the COVID-19 Crisis

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Benedikt Pirker

Abstract: The present Insight looks at the EU and the international law framework concerning trade measures in the context of the COVID-19 crisis, focusing on export restrictions. As is shown, the legal framework is fairly permissive with regard to EU Member States, but also the EU as an international actor. Taking into account economics–...

European Papers, 25.04.2020 | Posted in
The Constitutional Dimension of the European Union, Competences, Internal Market - Freedoms of Movement and Competition Law, Internal market - Economic freedoms of movement, EU Policies and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Union Policies, Economic and monetary union, Visas, asylum and immigration, The European Integration Through Human Rights, Protection of human rights in Europe, Solidarity and economic and social rights, The International Dimension of European Integration, The external action of the European Union, Security and military integration, International trade law and policy

European Solidarity in Times of Emergency: An Introduction to the Special Focus on COVID-19 and the EU

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Charlotte Beaucillon

Keywords: COVID-19 and the EU – European Solidarity – EU Values – EU Policies – EU Competences – New Research Paths.
 

On 13 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Europe the active centre of the COVID-19 pandemic. One month later, on 14 April 2020, several European Union Member States were...

European Papers, 25.04.2020 | Posted in
The Constitutional Dimension of the European Union, Competences, Internal Market - Freedoms of Movement and Competition Law, Internal market - Economic freedoms of movement, Citizenship, EU Policies and the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice, Union Policies, Economic and monetary union, Visas, asylum and immigration, The European Integration Through Human Rights, Protection of human rights in Europe, Solidarity and economic and social rights, The International Dimension of European Integration, The external action of the European Union, Security and military integration, International trade law and policy

Le implicazioni del primo ricorso alla c.d. ‘clausola di mutua assistenza’ del Trattato sull’Unione europea

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Emanuele Cimiotta

Abstract: In the aftermath of the ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015, France invoked for the first time the mutual assistance clause provided by Art. 42, para. 7, TEU, seeking for aid and assistance from other Member States in accordance with Art. 51 of the UN Charter. The attacks were qualified as an armed aggression on French...

European Papers, 22.04.2016 | Posted in
The International Dimension of European Integration, The external action of the European Union, Security and military integration