Only a vigilant democracy can be a resilient democracy. The public also deserves to know why the publication occurred at this ...

Such solidarity, however, needs a stable basis. Following the Commission’s plea (para. 50), the Court takes the view that this solidarity requires a link with a Member State society: “the special ...

The ongoing controversies over methods in EU law reflect a broader rethinking of the discipline, influenced by multiple crises in the European Union. Scholars are questioning traditional conceptions ...

On 4 November 2024, the Tribunal of Rome lodged a request for a preliminary ruling to the ECJ seeking clarification on the powers of MS to designate a third country and countries of origin as safe by ...

What are we to make of this conception of citizenship, and its use by the Court to strike down citizenship for investment schemes? Because I am no EU lawyer, I approach these questions from the ...

Commission v Malta, the Grand Chamber held that Malta’s investor citizenship scheme, which grants Maltese nationality in exchange for predetermined payments or investments, was contrary to EU law.

Make no mistake: the Court hints – for the first time – that EU citizenship bond is not only legal in nature. Citizenship has suddenly become a legal but also some other connection between a person ...

Paragraph 93: ‘Union citizenship is thus one of the principal concrete expressions of the solidarity which forms the very basis of the process of integration’. Note the ‘thus’. EU citizenship is the ...

On 11 February 2025, the Commission published its 2025 work programme and revealed the likely withdrawal of the Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Liability Directive (‘AILD proposal’), citing ...

In EU legal studies, time, space, place, and knowledge are locations for contestation, deliberation and reconstruction. Other submissions in this symposium have elaborated on the limitations in ...