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

Nun also doch: Nachdem die Schaffung eines Nationalen Sicherheitsrates seit schon fast 70 Jahren diskutiert wird, soll Deutschland gemäß dem Koalitionsvertrag 2025 von CDU/CSU und SPD nun einen solche ...

Am 2. Mai dieses Jahres gab das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz per Pressemitteilung bekannt, dass es die AfD nun auch bundesweit als gesichert rechtsextremistische Bestrebung ansieht. Infolge dieser ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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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 ...