Tag: European Union
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Wildfires, Legal Geography, and the Constitution
—Maria Tzanakopoulou, Senior lecturer, Birkbeck School of Law Amid record temperatures across Europe, the continent is once again confronted by multiple wildfire fronts. Several deaths have been reported while thousands have been evacuated. The EU has triggered its Civil Protection Mechanism to offer emergency assistance, as domestic civil protection services struggle to cope.
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Delegated Powers, Political Choices: How EU Risk-Based Regulation Can Go Too Far
Delegated Powers, Political Choices: How EU Risk-Based Regulation Can Go Too Far —Andrea Palumbo, Centre for IT and IP Law (CiTiP), KU Leuven[*] The next frontier of risk management: systemic risks in the Digital Services Act and the AI Act In the last decade, EU legislation has experienced a shift to risk-based regulation as the…
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Safeguarding the Rule of Law: The European Public Prosecutor Office’s Role and Challenges
—Goran Selanec, Justice, Constitutional Court of Croatia [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] The European Union has been fraught with two alarming trends in the last decade and a half.
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Commodifying Nationality, Undermining Democracy
—Goran Selanec, Constitutional Court of Croatia [Editor’s Note: This is one of our ICONnect columns. For more information on our 2025 columnists, see here.] At the end of April, the Court of Justice (CJEU) delivered a highly anticipated ruling in the case C-181/23 Commission v Malta.[1]
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Don’t Know Much about History
—José M. de Areilza, Professor and Jean Monnet-ESADE Chair, ESADE Business School In 1960, Sam Cooke made a splash with the song “A Wonderful World.” My generation learned it years later as the soundtrack to the film Witness. The opening line, “Don’t know much about history,” came to mind a few days ago when Donald…
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A Super Judgment on the Super League: The CJEU’s Antitrust Decision on Football
–Ketan Gupta, N.Y.U. School of Law The unipolar nature of sports governance, wherein the gameplay as well as the economics of a sport are shaped by one dominant sport federation, stretches across geographies and across sports such as golf, tennis, and football.
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Book Review: Tom Flynn on “The Mimetic Evolution of the Court of Justice of the EU” (Leonardo Pierdominici)
[Editor’s Note: In this installment of I•CONnect’s Book Review Series, Tom Flynn reviews Leonardo Pierdominici’s book on The Mimetic Evolution of the Court of Justice of the EU (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).] —Tom Flynn, University of Essex This fascinating book analyses the development of the CJEU from its earliest days to the present through the lens of…
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The Watchdog is Still Watching – but the Oversight Rules have to be Reconsidered. Discussing Kelemen and Pavone’s Article
—Massimo Condinanzi, Professor of EU Law, University of Milan and Coordinator of the National office for the resolution of infringement proceedings; Jacopo Alberti, Associate professor of EU Law, University Ferrara, Camilla Burelli, Research fellow in EU Law, University of Milan Are we sure that the European Commission has loosened its approach in controlling Member States’…
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Symposium | Part IV | After the decision of the captured Polish Constitutional Tribunal: jurists trying to have and eat their cake
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a five-part symposium on the recent decision by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal on the primacy of EU law. This is the fifth entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Antonia Baraggia and Giada Ragone.
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Symposium | Part III | Let’s take a deep breath: on the EU (and academic) reaction to the Polish Constitutional Tribunal’s ruling
[Editor’s Note: I-CONnect is pleased to feature a five-part symposium on the recent decision by the Polish Constitutional Tribunal on the primacy of EU law. This is the fourth entry of the symposium, which was kindly organized by Antonia Baraggia and Giada Ragone.