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Transnational Parliamentarism and the Dynamics of the IPC CFSP/CSDP: Policy-making, Accountability and Cooperation
(Kolja Raube and Daan Fonck/Essay)
(Kolja Raube and Daan Fonck/Essay)
... to some extent goes beyond purely intergovernmental functions of domestic accountability and representation, and also includes the performance of policy-making and parliamentary cooperation functions. ...
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The Establishment of Metropolitan Cities in Italy: An Advance or a Setback for Italian Regionalism?
(Giovanni Boggero/Essay)
(Giovanni Boggero/Essay)
This paper aims to provide a brief assessment of the legal framework of the newly established metropolitan cities in the Italian domestic legal order. After an historical overview of previous attempts ...
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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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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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State accountability for violations of EU law by Regions: infringement proceedings and the right of recourse
(Cristina Bertolino/Essay)
(Cristina Bertolino/Essay)
... This paper aims to investigate the Italian domestic legal order to identify the procedures and/or instruments that make infra-State bodies accountable for violations of EU obligations; and to analyse the ...
... decisions that their governments could not adopt domestically nevertheless ended up being adopted in Europe. This affected the competences of these sub-state entities, which had no representation in Europe ...
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Protection of EU citizens abroad: A legal assessment of the EU citizen’s right to consular and diplomatic protection
(Madalina Bianca Moraru/Essay)
(Madalina Bianca Moraru/Essay)
... find themselves in distress outside of the Union’s borders. It critically assesses the legal nature, content and effects in the domestic legal orders of the least developed right recognised to the EU citizen: ...