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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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Critique has become one of the latest buzzwords in EU legal studies. Who, after all, would not want to be identified as a critical scholar if the danger is that one’s work might otherwise be labelled ...