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Regional responses to COVID-19: A comparative analysis of EU and ASEAN policies to counter the pandemic
(Maria Papageorgiou and Daniella S. Nogueira Melo/Essay)
(Maria Papageorgiou and Daniella S. Nogueira Melo/Essay)
COVID-19 has posed several challenges at the national level with governments adopting various policies to counter its spread. Nonetheless, the transnational nature of pandemics requires a coordinated regional ...
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From procedural disagreement to joint scrutiny? The Interparliamentary Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance
(Valentin Kreilinger/Essay)
(Valentin Kreilinger/Essay)
... models for interparliamentary cooperation, the article shows that the two models of EP-led scrutiny and creating a collective parliamentary counterweight did not prevail: Parliaments agreed that the new ...
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Inter-parliamentary cooperation as a means for reinforcing joint scrutiny in the EU: upgrading existing mechanisms and creating new ones
(Elena Griglio and Stelios Stavridis/Editorial)
(Elena Griglio and Stelios Stavridis/Editorial)
... than an initiative, the need to counterbalance the institutional outcomes of the economic and financial crisis that shook the world but particularly the eurozone; and, third, the call for an improvement ...
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The Single Market and Synchronized Mechanisms for the Exercise of Administrative Functions: Converging Pathways or New Pathways for Integration? The Case of the European Banking Union
(Fabio Giglioni/Essay)
(Fabio Giglioni/Essay)
... market integrity is less and less the key interest compared to financial stability. However, this wider discretionary power is not adequately counteracted by checks and balances in favour of accountability. ...
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The impossible constitutional reconciliation of the BVerfG and the ECJ in the OMT case. A legal analysis of the first preliminary referral of the BVerfG
(Francesco Pennesi/Note)
(Francesco Pennesi/Note)
... Bank, one of the most effective European instruments in counteracting the effects of the Euro-crisis. Despite the apparent willingness of the BVerfG to accept the referring decision of the ECJ, it is clear ...
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Deferential dialogues between the Court of Justice and domestic courts regarding the compatibility of the EU Data Retention Directive with (higher?) national fundamental rights standards
(Ioana Pelin-Raducu/Essay)
(Ioana Pelin-Raducu/Essay)
This article examines the nature, purpose and effect of constitutional dialogues between the Court of Justice of the European Union and constitutional courts taking as example the difficulty encountered ...
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National and Regional Parliaments in the EU decision-making process, after the Treaty of Lisbon and the Euro-crisis
(Nicola Lupo/Essay)
(Nicola Lupo/Essay)
... scenario and, in any case, not sufficient in order to oversight and to counterbalance the fragmented (and, thus, very powerful) executive power of the EU. ...
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Reshaping Disability Policy Making in Italy: The ‘Focal Point’, the National Observatory on the Situation of Persons with Disabilities, and... the Absence of Regions?
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
(Delia Ferri/Essay)
... to ‘re-imagine’ the configuration of the whole ‘institutional’ disability domain. It is nonetheless surprising that the efforts at national level are not counterbalanced by identical commitments in the ...
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What Role for Regional Assemblies in Regional States? Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom in Comparative Perspective
(Cristina Fasone/Essay)
(Cristina Fasone/Essay)
... the UK, regional Assemblies with legislative powers have experienced a process of progressive weakening, especially on the side of the legislative function. Also in order to counteract this tendency, Regions ...
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European cooperation in counter-terrorism and the case of individual sanctions
(Giulia Gargantini/Essay)
(Giulia Gargantini/Essay)
This paper assesses European cooperation in counter-terrorism, which was prompted by the terrorist attacks at the beginning of this century. The first part of the paper will provide a description of the ...
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EU Citizenship, Naturalisations, and Mythical Cultural Exceptionalism in Europe Today
(Dimitry Kochenov/Essay)
(Dimitry Kochenov/Essay)
... the counterproductive nature of the ‘integration’ approach to the absorption of non-citizens. The essay claims that there is no such thing as a ‘nation-specific’ culture to be tested and that the creation ...
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Constitutional Failure or Constitutional Odyssey? What Can We Learn From Comparative Law?
(Giuseppe Martinico/Review article)
(Giuseppe Martinico/Review article)
... second point, insisting on comparative argument. The research question of this work is: Can we compare the “constitutional crisis” of the EU to the constitutional difficulties encountered by other multinational ...
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Constitutional Interpretation in Federations and its Impact on the Federal Balance
(Arun Sagar/Essay)
(Arun Sagar/Essay)
... constituent units, while progressive or ‘living’ constitutionalism tends to have a centripetal effect. However, even the adoption of an originalist approach is not sufficient to fully counter the general ...