Marzo 2017 | European Papers

A Question of Jurisdiction: Art. 267 TFEU Preliminary References of a CFSP Nature

Insight
Graham Butler
Abstract: Can the Court of Justice of the European Union assert jurisdiction and provide a national court with an interpretation of Union law in a case referred to it from a national court under an Art. 267 TFEU preliminary reference, when the subject matter is in regard to the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP)? This was one of a number of...

European Papers, 01.04.2017 | Enviado en
La dimensión constitucional de la Unión Europea, La protección jurisdiccional en la UE, El sistema de competencias, La dimensión internacional de la integración europea, La acción exterior de la Unión Europea
Inter-Environnement Expanded: Another Brick Out of the Wall of EU Law Supremacy?

Insight
Giulia Gentile
Abstract: In Association France Nature Environnement (judgment of 28 July 2016, case C-379/15), the Court of Justice dealt with two issues. First, is it possible for national courts to limit the effects of a judicial decision annulling national law contrary to EU law in the field of environmental protection? Second, are national courts...

European Papers, 29.03.2017 | Enviado en
La dimensión constitucional de la Unión Europea, La protección jurisdiccional en la UE
L’obbligo (flessibile) di rinvio pregiudiziale e i possibili fattori di un suo irrigidimento. Riflessioni in margine alla sentenza Association France Nature Environnement

Insight
Federico Pani
Abstract: In its judgement of 28 July 2016 (case C-41/11, Inter-Environnement Wallonie e Terre wallonne), the CJEU confirmed its settled case law concerning the interpretation of Art. 267, para. 3, TFEU. Indeed, since CILFIT, the CJEU has allowed national courts of last instance to solve by themselves interpretative problems in the...

European Papers, 29.03.2017 | Enviado en
La dimensión constitucional de la Unión Europea, La protección jurisdiccional en la UE
“Clash of Titans” 2.0. From Conflicting EU General Principles to Conflicting Jurisdictional Authorities: The Court of Justice and the Danish Supreme Court in the Dansk Industri Case

Insight
Elena Gualco
Abstract: The present Insight focuses on the reception by the Danish Supreme Court (judgment of 6 December 2016, no. 15/2014, DI acting for Ajos A/S v. The estate left by A.) of the Court of Justice decision in the Dansk Industri case (judgment of 19 April 2016, case C-441/14 [GC]). Instead of disapplying a national...

European Papers, 26.03.2017 | Enviado en
La dimensión constitucional de la Unión Europea, El ordenamiento jurídico, La integración europea a través de los derechos humanos, Dignidad humana, igualdad y no discriminación
Mixity in EU Foreign Trade Policy Is Here to Stay: Advocate General Sharpston on the Allocation of Competence for the Conclusion of the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement

Insight
Hannes Lenk
Abstract: It has been two decades since the Court of Justice had the chance to comprehensively assess the scope of the common commercial policy. In Opinion 2/15 on the EU-Singapore free trade agreement (FTA) the Court is now asked to determine how far the EU’s external competence stretches post-Lisbon. Ahead of the decision, AG Sharpston has...

European Papers, 26.03.2017 | Enviado en
La dimensión internacional de la integración europea, Derecho y políticas del comercio internacional
The Front Polisario v. Council Case: The General Court, Völkerrechtsfreundlichkeit and the External Aspect of European Integration (First Part)

Insight
Eva Kassoti
Abstract: Over the last few years, the CJEU’s approach to international law has sparked a fierce debate in the literature. More recent case-law has challenged the narrative of the CJEU’s Völkerrechtsfreundlichkeit and it has called into question the EU’s carefully cultivated self-image as a global actor with an attitude of respect and...

European Papers, 23.03.2017 | Enviado en
La integración europea a través de los derechos humanos, Protección de los derechos humanos en Europa, La dimensión internacional de la integración europea, Derecho y políticas del comercio internacional
EU Law and Extradition Agreements of Member States: The Petruhhin Case

Insight
Stefano Saluzzo
Abstract: The Insight analyses the recent judgment of the Court of Justice in the Aleksei Petruhhin v. Latvijas Republikas Ģenerālprokuratūra case (judgment of 6 December 2016, case C-182/15). The preliminary ruling deals with the relationship between EU law and Member States’ extradition agreements with third countries. The...

European Papers, 21.03.2017 | Enviado en
La dimensión constitucional de la Unión Europea, El ordenamiento jurídico, Mercado interior - Libertades de circulación y Derecho de la Competencia, Mercado interior - Libertades económicas de circulación, La integración europea a través de los derechos humanos, Protección de los derechos humanos en Europa
Denialism as the Supreme Expression of Realism – A Quick Comment on NF v. European Council

Insight
Enzo Cannizzaro
Abstract: By Order of 28 February 2017 in case T-192/16, NF v. European Council, the General Court dismissed as inadmissible an action for annulment brought against the s.c. EU-Turkey deal concluded on 18 March 2016. In the view of the General Court, independently of its binding nature, the deal is to be attributed to the Member States and...

European Papers, 15.03.2017 | Enviado en
La dimensión constitucional de la Unión Europea, El sistema institucional, El ordenamiento jurídico, Procedimientos decisorios, La protección jurisdiccional en la UE, El sistema de competencias, Políticas de la UE y Espacio de libertad, seguridad y justicia, Visados, asilo e inmigración, La dimensión internacional de la integración europea, La acción exterior de la Unión Europea