Title:Another Legal Monster? An EUI debate on the fiscal compact treaty
Author(s):AZOULAI, Loic; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; DE WITTE, Bruno; CREMONA, Marise; HYVÄRINEN, Anna; KOCHAROV, Anna; ABDALLAT, Anwar; KOCHAROV, AnnaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:On 1 February 2012, member states of the European Union minus the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic agreed on the text of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union (the ...
Title:EU External Relations Law and the European Neighbourhood Policy: A paradigm for coherence
Author(s):VAN VOOREN, BartDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a recent example of an external EU policy drawn up explicitly with the objective of achieving coherence in the external policies of the EU and its Member States. Positioning the ...
Title:Fighting Hate Speech through EU Law
Author(s):BELAVUSAU, UladzislauDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article constitutes a chapter from a forthcoming book on EU non-discrimination law (E. Ellis & K. Benediktsdóttir (eds.), Equality into Reality: Action for Diversity & Non-Discrimination). It explores the rise of the ...
Title:European Food Regulation After Enlargement: Facing the challenges of diversity
Author(s):ZUREK, KarolinaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book presents a critical legal perspective on the current direction of EU food regulation. Analysing three regulatory mechanisms - mutual recognition, scientific risk regulation and standardisation - in the evolution ...
Title:The Two (or Three) Treaty Solution: The New Treaty Structure of the EU
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:The Treaty of Lisbon is essentially an amending Treaty; it amended the Treaty on European Union and EC Treaty, renaming the latter the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). These amendments are major ones and include ...
Title:The European Court of Justice and the Autonomy of the Member States
Author(s):MICKLITZ, Hans-Wolfgang; DE WITTE, BrunoDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:[EUDO - European Union Democracy Observatory Programme]Abstract:There is an impressive body of legal literature on the relationship between the European Court of Justice and its various “interlocutors” (EU institutions, national jurisdictions, EU interest groups, multinationals…) and ...
Title:Liberalization of Electricity Markets and Public Service Obligations in the Energy Community
Author(s):KAROVA, RozetaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:This book presents the first in-depth analysis of the export of the EU electricity acquits, through the imposition of an EU-type regional electricity market (REM) in SEE within the enlargement process. Among other germane ...
Title:Framework for Economic Development in EU External Relations
Author(s):PODSTAWA, Karolina; PUCCIO, Laura; BOTTA, Marco; DE ANDRADE CORREA, Fabiano; CREMONA, Marise; DUBAVA, Ilze; FAKHOURY MUEHLBACHER, Tamirace; PODSTAWA, Karolina; PUCCIO, Laura; SILGA, JanineDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This Working Paper is a collection of contributions presented during the Workshop "Framework for Economic Development in EU External Relations on 22nd and 23rd January 2010. The contributions explore various facets of what ...
Title:New Perspectives on Connecting Human Rights and the Environment
Author(s):RIDDELL, AnnaDate:2012Type of Publication:Contribution to bookAbstract:In the 20th Century it became increasingly clear that a clean and healthy environment is the resource base for all life, and that this resource is inherently fragile and in need of protection. Human rights regimes have ...
Title:Alexy on Necessity in Law and Morals
Author(s):PATTERSON, DennisDate:2012Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:Robert Alexy has built his original theory of law upon pervasive claims for “necessary” features of law. In this article, I show that Alexy's claims suffer from two difficulties. First, Alexy is never clear about what he ...
Title:Air Traffic Management in the Single European Sky: Standardisation of safety and liability issues
Author(s):SIMONCINI, MartaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper aims to analyse the European system of Air Traffic Management (ATM) as a specific case study of risk regulation in the framework of the European integration process. At the present, the implementation of the ...
Title:The Englaro Case: Withdrawal of treatment in Italy from a patient in a permanent vegetative state
Author(s):MORATTI, SofiaDate:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:In 2009, the international media reported the case of Eluana Englaro, a 38-year-old woman in a Permanent Vegetative State (PVS) who died following the withdrawal of her feeding tube. By the time of her death, she had been ...
Title:Towards Social Environmental Justice?
Author(s):DUVAL, Antoine; MOREAU, Marie-Ange; DESJARDINS, Marie-Claude; FRANCIONI, Francesco; LAVALLÉE, Sophie; MOREAU, Marie-Ange; ORLANDO, Emmanuela; ROUX, Dominic; STAATH, Claire; WRAY, Benedict S.Date:2012Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI LAWAbstract:This Working Paper is the result of a workshop held at the European University Institute in November 2010. At the heart of it lies a reflection on the potentialities of a new legal concept: social environmental justice. ...
Title:Compliance and the Enforcement of EU Law
Author(s):CREMONA, MariseDate:2012Type of Publication:BookSeries/Report no.:Collected Courses of the Academy of European LawAbstract:The enlargement of the EU has highlighted the challenges of compliance, but it has also helped to suggest new compliance methodologies. The combination of methodologies used by the EU and the differing levels of enforcement ...