It has been years now that the scientific community is warning about the gravity of climate change consequences and about the need to effectively respond to it. However, the climate crisis just seems to ...
The European Union is well known to be one of the most prominent international actors fighting against the climate crisis and, as the President of the European Council Charles Michel has said, it ...
I am writing these lines amid challenging times. The last few months have been dominated by the Covid-19 crisis. Sadly, the further evolution of this crisis is impossible to predict. As things stand, Covid-19 ...
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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)
... both organisations need to acquire a more proactive role in health and crisis management. ...
For a long time considered, improperly, a sort of ‘nuclear’ option, Article 7 TEU is the key EU Treaty provision in the field of values enforcement. In the context of the Union’s current rule of law crisis, ...
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Federalism and constitution: States’ participation in constitutional reform as a guarantee of the federalisation process. (A study of Spain’s unique model)
(María Reyes Pérez Alberdi/Essay)
(María Reyes Pérez Alberdi/Essay)
... into the recent crisis in this ‘State of Autonomies’, which is now facing the breakdown of national unity. ...
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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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Differentiated integration contingent on objective ability: a federalist critique
(Samo Bardutzky/Essay)
(Samo Bardutzky/Essay)
... events that took place in the crises and post-crises period (aftermath of the financial crisis, ongoing refugee crisis and the Brexit shock). It is particularly interested in the scenario of differentiated ...
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The past, present and future of the EU's federal experience
(Francisco Pereira Coutinho & Martinho Lucas Pires/Editorial)
(Francisco Pereira Coutinho & Martinho Lucas Pires/Editorial)
... 2017 under the Jean Monnet Project “More EU - More Europe to Overcome the Crisis”. The articles discuss, either from a more general or from a more specific standpoint, within a variety of subjects, some ...
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Administration or Federation? Constitutional Self-Image and the World Political Order in Which the EU Finds Itself
(Ming-Sung Kuo/Essay)
(Ming-Sung Kuo/Essay)
... in times of crisis. Freed from the value-laden concept of constitutional identity, but without de-constitutionalizing itself, the EU can have the benefits of both the constitutional and administrative ...
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How to Bridge the Gaps between Competing Paradigms for EU Law: An Introduction
(Marta Simoncini and Gert Straetmans/Editorial)
(Marta Simoncini and Gert Straetmans/Editorial)
For the first time since its creation, the European Union (EU) has been living its probably most significant identity crisis. This crisis has its roots in different critical situations that have hit the ...
The paper deals with the validity of constitutional pluralism as a constitutional theory for the European Union and a paradigm for the understanding of EU law in the current times of crisis. It reconstructs ...
... substantive choice is well illustrated by the Greek crisis. Since its first bailout in May 2010, Greece has held four general elections and a referendum. Yet, the anti-austerity preferences of the Greek ...
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Reflections on the ‘Administrative, Not Constitutional’ Character of EU Law in Times of Crisis
(Peter L. Lindseth/Essay)
(Peter L. Lindseth/Essay)
... to the integration process in times of crisis. It is unsurprising, in these circumstances, that the public law of European integration has continually resorted to mechanisms of nationally mediated legitimacy ...
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The failure of intergovernmentalism in tackling the EU crisis and the European Parliament’s initiative
(Roberto Castaldi/Editorial)
(Roberto Castaldi/Editorial)
The EU is facing a multi-faceted, existential, crisis; it is an economic and social crisis in some countries, a political and cultural crisis all over the EU and a geopolitical crisis at the international ...
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Austerity on the loose in Portugal: European judicial restraint in times of crisis
(Francisco Pereira Coutinho/Essay)
(Francisco Pereira Coutinho/Essay)
The international bailout granted to Portugal between 2011 and 2014 was conditional on the adoption by the Portuguese State of austerity measures included in a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed ...
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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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Conventional Direction to Unconventional Measures: Using Quantitative Easing to shape Eurozone Fiscal Capacity
(Olimpia Fontana and Simone Vannuccini/Essay)
(Olimpia Fontana and Simone Vannuccini/Essay)
Eight years after the outbreak of the crisis, the Eurozone (EZ) fiscal policy remains fragmented at the national level. This paper fills the structural gap between the monetary and fiscal dimensions of ...
From 1992, after the UN “Earth Summit” in Rio de Janeiro, sustainable development has become a priority of many countries and international organizations, including the European Union. After the crisis ...
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Sovereignty and Democracy: Overcoming Supranational Mutual Double-Binds from the Eurozone
(Francesco Pigozzo/Essay)
(Francesco Pigozzo/Essay)
EU and EMU are facing a hastened phase of structural rather than episodic crisis, following the progressive shift of the world order from a bipolar toward a multi-polar system. From the sovereign debt ...