Tags: [Secession, EU accession, EU Membership, multilevel governance, independence, Cédric, Lombaerts, Perspectives on Federalism] ...
... expectations that may not be fulfilled. Its success or failure depends on the behaviour of citizens and institutional actors within the Conference, and on the evolution of the European political landscape ...
Secession in a EU context analysed from a multilevel governance unravels that there is in fact room EU interference in secessionist conflicts. Nevertheless, a balance should be struck between such commitment ...
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The Challenge of Diversity in a Multinational Federation: The Impact of the Judiciary on Pluralism in Canada
(Frédéric Bérard and Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBi/Essay)
(Frédéric Bérard and Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBi/Essay)
... the organization of the Canadian judicial system, namely the hierarchy of the courts, the nomination and compensation of judges, and the guarantees of judicial independence. After that, the paper discusses ...
... concept at stake, depending on the forum considered. According to the AoA, food security is conceived as an exception. It does not consider the individual condition, but focuses either on a country’s agricultural ...
... theme of constitutional democracies: the tension between political self-determination and constitutional adjudication. On the other hand, I assume that judicial activism in the German Länder depends on ...
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The Secession Issue and Territorial Autonomy in Spain: Bicameralism Revisited
(Alberto López-Basaguren/Essay)
(Alberto López-Basaguren/Essay)
... by the authorities of the resolutions of the Constitutional Court (CC), which concluded with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) by Parliament at the same time as the adoption of the measures ...
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Shared Rule vs Self-Rule? Bicameralism, Power-Sharing and the 'Joint Decision Trap'
(Arthur Benz/Essay)
(Arthur Benz/Essay)
... against the encroachments of central legislation into their areas of responsibility. Both functions seem to be best fulfilled in legislative systems requiring joint decisions of legislative chambers. Depending ...
... of these two components to the activity of parliaments, these analyses are incomplete. The functions and competences of a given second chamber depend on the way it represents pluralism: the weight that ...
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Constitutional Judges and Secession. Lessons from Canada … twenty years later
(Irene Spigno/Essay)
(Irene Spigno/Essay)
... Over the last decades, the referendum has been the instrument used by minority groups to claim their independence supported by popular will. This paper examines trends in constitutional jurisprudence on ...
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Constitutional and administrative paradigms in judicial control over EU high and low politics
(Pola Cebulak/Essay)
(Pola Cebulak/Essay)
... depend more on the policy domain, and be made case by case, which suggests politically sensitive adjudication, rather than a coherent approach to legitimizing the nascent judicial review in EU external ...
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National parliaments fighting back? Institutional engineering as a successful means to become active actors in EU affairs
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
(Diane Fromage/Essay)
... Maastricht Treaty first and to an even larger extent in the Lisbon Treay. Parliaments were hence long dependent on national constitutional, legal and administrative arrangements to be able to participate ...
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Clarifying Limbo: Disentangling Indigenous Autonomy from the Mexican Constitutional Order
(Ian Flannigan Sprague/Essay)
(Ian Flannigan Sprague/Essay)
In contrast to U.S. Federal Indian law, which has classified indigenous tribes as “domestic dependent nations” since the early 19th century, Mexican law has only recently begun to define the political ...
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Sovereignty and Democracy: Overcoming Supranational Mutual Double-Binds from the Eurozone
(Francesco Pigozzo/Essay)
(Francesco Pigozzo/Essay)
... trap to migratory pressures and security threats, all European crisis are intimately interdependent and long awaited rather than unexpected, since their origins trace back to a lack of reactivity of the ...
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International Dictatorship or International Democracy. A Discussion of Albert Camus’ 1946 Considerations
(Tommaso Visone/Essay)
(Tommaso Visone/Essay)
... immanent in the interdependent world of the 20th century. In the series of essays another reading is possible; an attempt to find a new political way after the end of the classic modern world - a system ...
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Eurozone, non-Eurozone and “troubled asymmetries” among national parliaments in the EU. Why and to what extent this is of concern
(Cristina Fasone/Essay)
(Cristina Fasone/Essay)
... before the Treaties has been put under stress. Likewise the position of national institutions concerned by the same Euro-crisis measure can have different implications depending on the Member State. This ...
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Strengthening state constitutionalism from the federal Constitution: the case of Mexico
(José María Serna de la Garza/Essay)
(José María Serna de la Garza/Essay)
... constitution that seek to protect independence and autonomy of state judges. These developments illustrate how states have tried to use their sphere of constitutional autonomy in more creative ways, and ...
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Thinking ahead of disasters. The role of risk regulation in the European Union
(Marta Simoncini/Essay)
(Marta Simoncini/Essay)
... (EU) approach to the regulation of risks of potential catastrophic impact by framing it in the context of resilience. In so doing, it argues that this approach is shaped by the multilevel interdependencies ...
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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)
... equalisation and inter-territorial solidarity are interdependent, reinforcing the one also means cementing the other. Future studies of the EU and federal-type arrangements are advised to pay more explicit ...
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The Introduction of the "Balanced Budget" Principle into the Italian Constitution: What Perspectives for the Financial Autonomy of Regional and Local Governments?
(Antonella Gagliano/Essay)
(Antonella Gagliano/Essay)
... authorities? Is it time to recognise that the goals of financial independence of Italian fiscal federalism, launched by the reform of Title V of the IC, must give way to a new organization of public finance, ...