Marzo 2017 | European Papers

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

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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 | Inserito in
La dimensione costituzionale dell’Unione europea, Il sistema giudiziario, Il sistema delle competenze, La dimensione internazionale dell’integrazione europea, L’azione esterna dell’Unione europea
Inter-Environnement Expanded: Another Brick Out of the Wall of EU Law Supremacy?

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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 | Inserito in
La dimensione costituzionale dell’Unione europea, Il sistema giudiziario
L’obbligo (flessibile) di rinvio pregiudiziale e i possibili fattori di un suo irrigidimento. Riflessioni in margine alla sentenza Association France Nature Environnement

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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 | Inserito in
La dimensione costituzionale dell’Unione europea, Il sistema giudiziario
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

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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 | Inserito in
La dimensione internazionale dell’integrazione europea, Diritto e politiche del commercio internazionale
“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

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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 | Inserito in
La dimensione costituzionale dell’Unione europea, Il sistema normativo, L’integrazione europea attraverso i diritti umani, Dignità umana, uguaglianza e non discriminazione
The Front Polisario v. Council Case: The General Court, Völkerrechtsfreundlichkeit and the External Aspect of European Integration (First Part)

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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 | Inserito in
L’integrazione europea attraverso i diritti umani, Tutela dei diritti umani in Europa, La dimensione internazionale dell’integrazione europea, Diritto e politiche del commercio internazionale
EU Law and Extradition Agreements of Member States: The Petruhhin Case

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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 | Inserito in
La dimensione costituzionale dell’Unione europea, Il sistema normativo, Mercato interno - Libertà di circolazione e concorrenza, Mercato interno - Libertà di circolazione economiche, L’integrazione europea attraverso i diritti umani, Tutela dei diritti umani in Europa
Denialism as the Supreme Expression of Realism – A Quick Comment on NF v. European Council

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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 | Inserito in
La dimensione costituzionale dell’Unione europea, Il sistema istituzionale, Il sistema normativo, Le procedure decisionali, Il sistema giudiziario, Il sistema delle competenze, Politiche dell’UE e Spazio di libertà, sicurezza e giustizia, Visti, asilo e immigrazione, La dimensione internazionale dell’integrazione europea, L’azione esterna dell’Unione europea