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Top Secret Intelligence in Europe: A Tipping Point in Luxembourg?
Deirdre Curtin This post originally appeared originally on acelg.blogactiv.eu and europaeuslaw.blogspot.co.uk and is reposted here with permission and thanks. Kadi is back in Luxembourg and with a...
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“Ask responsibly”: a warning on the hypertrophy of referrals for preliminary...
Dr Albert Sanchez Graells The tendency towards saturation and the risk of a bottleneck in the activities of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) are one the main concerns that prompted the...
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Company Boards and Thwarted Quotas: the Glacial Pace of Change
Aileen McColgan Women hold fewer than one in seven seats on the boards of the largest listed public companies across the European Union.[1] In Norway, where a 40% quota has been in force for some time,...
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The Euro subsidises German industry but it harms Germany
Dr Gunnar Beck Those who argue that Germany has profited from the euro, almost always rest their case on Germany’s export surpluses. The euro eliminated exchange rate risks; appreciated less than the...
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Case Comment: C-40/11, Yoshikazu Iida [2012] – keeping father and daughter...
Adrienne Yong 8 November 2012 saw the judgment of an interesting case in the line of development of Union citizenship. Many cases in this area have been made relevant and indeed, been eagerly...
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Thoughts on the Maduro Report: Saving the Euro Through European Democratization?
Prof. Peter Lindseth Miguel Poiares Maduro, former AG on the CJEU and now holder of a joint chair at EUI and the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies in Florence, is hosting an online discussion...
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Case Comment: Regina (Preston) v Wandsworth London Borough Council, CA [2012]...
Does loss of the right to vote for residing more than 15 years outside the UK violate EU freedom of movement? Bianca Venkata On 25 October 2012 the Court of Appeal handed down a judgment ([2012] EWCA...
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The singular case of Mr Nada
Michael Armitage* The failure of the UN Security Council (“UNSC”) to agree resolutions on Syria, thanks largely to Russian and Chinese intransigence, is still big news. But both the European Court of...
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Gender Quotas on Corporate Boards
Julie Suk This piece originally appeared on europaeuslaw and is reposted here with permission and thanks. This week, the European Commission unveiled its proposal for an EU directive on gender balance...
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Case Comment: Case C-244/11 Commission v Greece
Pedro Caro de Sousa Associate, Linklaters LLP; DPhil (Oxon) On 8 November 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union decided a case concerning the conformity with the rules on freedom of...
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Pringle Has His Chips
Prof. Kenneth A. Armstrong The Court of Justice has delivered its much anticipated ruling in the challenge brought by Thomas Pringle to the legal provisions establishing the European Stability...
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Case C-410/11 Pedro Sanchez v Iberia: Shared Baggage, Single Interpretation
Jeremias Prassl At first sight, the question at stake in the ECJ’s decision of 22 November 2012 is beguilingly straightforward: if several passengers bundle their belongings into a single suitcase that...
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Scotland, independence and the EU: the Barroso intervention
Aidan O’Neill QC The President of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, has responded to an invitation from the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee for the European Commission to...
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Delay payday: the Court of Justice upholds Sturgeon
Mike Armitage On 23rd October 2012, the CJEU handed down its judgment in Joined Cases C-581/10 and C-629/10 Nelson/TUI. The ruling, which has been much-anticipated by airlines and passengers alike,...
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Scotland, independence and the EU: the Sturgeon response
Aidan O’Neill QC In the wake of yesterday’s Statement to the Scottish Parliament by Scotland’s Deputy First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon MSP, responding to the Barroso intervention which suggested that an...
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Interdependence, Political Will, and Morality: Banking Union Version
Prof. Peter Lindseth In reflecting on the muddled and (to many observers) disappointing outcome of last week’s European Council summit on banking union—‘yes’ to a not-insignificant Single Supervisory...
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Ryanair v. Competition Commission and Aer Lingus in the Court of Appeal...
Majority and Minority Shareholders Commuting between Dublin, Brussels and London Pedro Caro de Sousa Associate, Linklaters LLP; DPhil (Oxon) Keeping with this blog’s recent focus on aviation related...
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Clarification of the Article 9(2) ECHR qualification? Eweida and Others v the UK
Dr Iyiola Solanke Can an employer compel a Christian employee to: a) remove jewellery worn to manifest religious belief or b) carry out workplace duties which are felt to contravene central tenets of...
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The Communautaire Predisposition in the judicial reasoning of the Court of...
Dr Gunnar Beck Gerard Conway’s thought-provoking study starts from the familiar distinction between the familiar two broad types of judicial interpretation: the literal or originalist versus the...
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Radu – A Case of Failed Dialogue
Anita Davies The CJEU handed down its decision in Ministerul Public – Parchetul de pe lângă Curtea de Apel Constanţa v Ciprian Vasile Radu last week. In summary, the Court was asked to clarify the...
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