The European Union's Global Health Actorness: A Research Agenda for a New Age of Pandemics
Abstract Whilst the European Union's (EU's) response to health emergencies has historically been subpar, some suggest that it emerged from COVID‐19 as a stronger global health actor. This prompts two interrelated questions: how have International Relations scholars conceptualised and assessed EU ‘actorness’ in the all‐too‐often neglected field of ...
Óscar Fernández
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Defining and Operationalising Defiant Non‐Compliance in the EU: The Rule of Law Case
Abstract Existing literature often attributes non‐compliance to either a lack of resources or implementation costs. However, the rule of law crises in Hungary and Poland present a different picture: a deliberate strategy aimed at not complying with EU enforcement actions.
Carlos Closa, Gisela Hernández
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The future of the Eurozone and the role of the German Constitutional Court. Research Papers in Law, 05/2012 [PDF]
[Introduction.] Necessary reforms towards a deepened and increased European shaped economic, financial and budgetary policy, paraphrased with the term “fiscal union”, could possibly reach constitutional limits.
Calliess, Christian
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Deposit return schemes of EU Member States and the EU's internal market
Abstract Deposit return (DR) schemes on drinks containers have long been in place in certain EU Member States. Consumers are charged a deposit per container at the point of purchase, which they can later get back when they return the container after consuming its contents.
Graham Butler
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Translating policy harmonization into practice—The case of the EU Blue Card Directive
Abstract This study introduces a translation perspective to analyze the policy harmonization process, highlighting imitation, brokering, and editing in shaping policy dynamics at EU and national levels. The translation perspective emphasizes that while policy development is ongoing, the protracted process signals a shift in EU‐wide coordination of ...
Almina Bešić +2 more
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From critical theory to litigation strategy: Can intersectionality transform EU equality law?
Abstract While legal scholarship has consistently lamented the lack of recognition of intersectional discrimination in courts, the question of whether intersectionality features in lawyers' litigation strategies remains in a blind spot. Although a growing body of interdisciplinary scholarship probes how legal mobilisation shapes the construction of EU ...
Raphaële Xenidis
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Lisbon and access to justice for environmental NGOs: A watershed? A case study using the setting of the Total Allowable Catches under the Common Fisheries Policy [PDF]
Before the Lisbon Treaty, environmental non-governmental organisations could rarely or not satisfy the admissibility test to gain access to the European courts.
Herman, C.
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Has the UK Supreme Court Become More Restrained in Public Law Cases?
In recent years, a number of academics, judges and politicians have noted that the UK Supreme Court has adopted a more restrained approach when it comes to public law than it had done previously. This article assesses the quantitative and qualitative evidence for this apparent conservative turn.
Lewis Graham
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Constitutional developments since the Lisbon Treaty in the area of freedom, security and justice at supranational and national level [PDF]
In order to evaluate the constitutional developments in the area of freedom, security and justice (AFSJ) of the Lisbon Treaty, this article begins with a tour d'horizon of the new provisions in the field of AFSJ.
Kellermann, Alfred E.
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Priority setting by independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) is an invisible, yet essential, component of regulatory law enforcement. The selection of which cases to enforce and which to disregard is vital given IRAs’ finite resources, and due to the function of concretising open‐ended administrative norms.
Or Brook, Katalin J. Cseres
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