... with ever-recurring issues, as well as with emerging discussions (e.g., the debates about secession in Scotland and Catalonia, and the drafting of a “Charter” for Flanders). ...
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Riddle Me This, Riddle Me That: Anti-social Behaviour, Vagueness and Judicial Discretion in the United Kingdom
(Eleonora Harris/Essay)
(Eleonora Harris/Essay)
... of anti- social behaviour measures. During the Bill’s passage, parliamentary debates emphasised the issues of vagueness and broadness but, nevertheless, the enacted legislation still poses serious questions ...
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EU Citizenship before the CJEU: On the importance of the application of the proportionality principle
(Carmen Román Vaca/Essay)
(Carmen Román Vaca/Essay)
... is related to public policy issues are particularly sensitive due to their constitutional identity concerns. The approach for the comparison in this paper consists in finding and measuring ‘pathologies’ ...
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The Multiannual Financial Framework 2014–20 – Best European value for less money?
(Mario Kölling/Essay)
(Mario Kölling/Essay)
The eurozone crisis has made budgetary issues the focal point of political and public debates about the European Union. Besides the pessimistic context and conflictive nature of the ongoing negotiation ...
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Subconstitutionalism in a Multilayered System. A Comparative Analysis of Constitutional Politics in the German Länder
(Astrid Lorenz - Werner Reutter/Essay)
(Astrid Lorenz - Werner Reutter/Essay)
... we will present some explanations for these differences and similarities (2.), and finally we analyze some issues concerning changes of Land constitutions (3.) ...
... From an analysis of the cases, it emerges that there still are some uncertain issues, such as the extent of the competences of the EU, the paradigmatic function of the case-law of the European Court of ...
This special issue of Perspectives on Federalism offers a multidisciplinary collection of pieces dealing with some (selected) issues in the field of citizenship studies. In order to investigate how citizenship ...
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Constitutional Interpretation in Federations and its Impact on the Federal Balance
(Arun Sagar/Essay)
(Arun Sagar/Essay)
... in federalism-related issues than they do in other areas of constitutional law, such as fundamental rights ...
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The transfer of State Property to Regions and Local Authorities within the Italian Fiscal Federalism Reform
(Filippo Scuto/Essay)
(Filippo Scuto/Essay)
... “Public Property Federalism” (“federalismo demaniale”) and the various steps leading to the actual transfer and assignment of some State assets to Regions and Local Authorities. The financial issues of ...
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And nothing else matters. The ICJ’s judicial restraint in its Opinion on Kosovo’s Independence
(Giuseppe Bianco/Note)
(Giuseppe Bianco/Note)
... Resolution 1244 (1999) nor the Constitutional Framework prevented the authors from declaring independence. The author analyses the Court’s approach, its conclusions and the issues which remain open. ...
... some unresolved issues within the text. ...
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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)
This essay aims at giving an overview on the role of the European and national Parliaments in the dynamics of integration. After resuming the main issues that such a subject present, the author analyses ...
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