... on Federalism will pay due attention to the activities of the Conference and to their relevance in the present time. As usual, we encourage our readers to submit articles, review essays and notes, or ...
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Jurisdiction and Pluralisms: Judicial Functions and Organisation in Federal Systems
(Jens Woelk/Essay)
(Jens Woelk/Essay)
... in Federal Systems’. It will focus on the degree to which legal and judicial pluralism is possible within the general legal system of the State. Particular attention will be paid to autonomous judicial ...
... jurisdictions like Italy and Germany, the distribution of competences has often come to the spotlight of public attention. ...
... such a provision deserves the greatest attention, especially after the European Commission’s proposal in December 2017 to trigger the procedure against Poland, under Article 7(1) TEU. This article contributes ...
... Budget Offices, which seem to have escaped scholar’s attention. Administrative duties and roles are discussed in the context of inter-parliamentary cooperation and a new role is attributed to parliamentary ...
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Unicameralism, Bicameralism, Multicameralism: Evolution and Trends in Europe
(Paolo Passaglia/Essay)
(Paolo Passaglia/Essay)
... by a ‘territorial’ second chamber. Nevertheless, other types of bicameralism deserve attention too, not only to provide a comprehensive outline of the comparative scene, but also to find features that ...
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The Interpretive Function of the CJEU and the Interrelationship of EU and National Levels of Consumer Protection
(Geraint Howells and Gert Straetmans/Essay)
(Geraint Howells and Gert Straetmans/Essay)
... in the Unfair Contract Terms Directive and the informed decision requirements in the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive. In these three domains the CJEU recognises that the level of customer attention ...
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“Top-down” vs. “Bottom-up”: A Dichotomy of Paradigms for the Legitimation of Public Power in the EU
(Sergio Dellavalle/Essay)
(Sergio Dellavalle/Essay)
... destiny. After giving a brief account of how both legitimation strategies have developed in the history of political ideas, attention is focused on the theories regarding the legitimacy of public power ...
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Margins of Nationality. External ethnic citizenship and non-discrimination
(Kriszta Kovács, Zsolt Körtvélyesi, and Alíz Nagy/Essay)
(Kriszta Kovács, Zsolt Körtvélyesi, and Alíz Nagy/Essay)
... arguments presented here should apply more generally, special attention will be paid to events that primarily triggered the authors’ interest, the case of Hungary. ...
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The Territoriality of Fiscal Solidarity: Comparing Swiss Equalisation with European Union Structural Funding
(Sean Mueller - Soeren Keil/Essay)
(Sean Mueller - Soeren Keil/Essay)
... attention to the solidarity-element of territoriality – or the territoriality of (fiscal) solidarity. ...
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Overcoming the Legal Iron Curtain: Similarities and differences in the use of preliminary references between new and old Member States
(Juan A. Mayoral/Essay)
(Juan A. Mayoral/Essay)
This article analyses the determinants that lead national courts across EU countries to use the preliminary reference procedure, paying special attention to the differences and similarities in the use ...
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European cooperation in counter-terrorism and the case of individual sanctions
(Giulia Gargantini/Essay)
(Giulia Gargantini/Essay)
... main features of the European counter-terrorism policy together with the most important achievements attained in this field. Attention is then focused on the combat against terrorist financing; in particular ...
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Redefining Parliamentary Sovereignty: The Example of the Devolution Referenda
(Eleonora Harris/Essay)
(Eleonora Harris/Essay)
The goal of this paper is to draw attention to a critical issue regarding the decline in the traditional doctrine of Parliamentary sovereignty in the United Kingdom. Devolution has proven to be a serious ...
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The Role and Power of the European and the National Parliaments in the Dynamics of Integration
(Paola Bilancia/Essay)
(Paola Bilancia/Essay)
... the recent developments in this field paying attention to the Protocols on subsdiarity and Protocol on the role of national parliaments in the European Union. ...