Forum Européen

Abstract: The EU increasingly advocates a message of tech or digital sovereignty as its future, which appears to align closely with the concept of strategic autonomy. Arguably digital sovereignty has a highly differentiated understanding in the EU as opposed to the US or China. Increasingly, many suggest EU digital sovereignty in the era of the GDPR...

Keywords: Digital Markets Act – gatekeepers – information – data – contestability – fairness.

The entry into force of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) introduces a novelty into the legal lexicon.[1] A new term elbows its way into the bustling debate over the regulation of the...

Abstract: Lithuania, Latvia, and Poland have amended their legislation to respond to the increased migration flows caused by the policies of instrumentalisation of migrants implemented by the Belarusian government. This Insight illustrates these responses and shows how these EU Member States instrumentalised border tensions with Belarus to...

Abstract: The Insight aims to analyse whether the Executive Order 14086 of 7 October 2022, signed by the President of the United States following the achievement of the so-called EU-US Data Privacy Framework, has addressed the requirements emerging from the Court of Justice’s ruling in the case Schrems II (case C-311/18). It...

Abstract: This Insight takes the Court of Justice’s ruling in JP v Ministre de la Transition écologique and Premier Ministre (case C-61/21) as a starting point to reflect, more broadly, on the interpretation of the first condition of State liability for breaches of EU law, i.e. that the rule breached shall be intended to...

Abstract: In X v Udlændingenævnet, the Court of Justice dealt with a Danish provision requiring a Turkish worker, legally resident in Denmark, to successfully pass a language test as a necessary condition to provide his spouse with a residence permit for the purpose of family reunification. The Court claimed that said legislation...

Abstract: The paper addresses the question whether there exists a specific “Austrian” community of EU law scholars. This forms part of the broader question whether there exists a peculiar German or German-speaking community of EU law scholars (to which the current issue is devoted). To this end, the paper examines three fields – the impact of the...

Keywords: legal unity – scientific discourse – fragmentation – comparison of laws – public law – international law.

Ob man nun die EU als Rechtsgemeinschaft, als Rechtsunion, oder als Rechtsraum bezeichnet,[1] zugrunde liegt ein Anspruch auf Einheit, auf Interdependenz zwischen...

Keywords: language – interdisciplinary exchange – limitations – EU law discourse – international law – transnational law.

Die Chancen und Herausforderungen einer – je nach dem normativen Standpunkt – sprachlich vielfältigen bzw. zersplitterten Europarechtswissenschaft sind zahlreich. Der vorliegende...

Keywords: EU law research – methodologies – incentive structures – exchange across language boundaries – Brexit – retained EU law

Die vorliegende erste deutschsprachige Ausgabe der ansonsten eher anglophonen European Papers lädt zu der Frage ein, wie es um den Austausch zwischen der deutschsprachigen und der...