If any of you are interested in EU law litigation at national courts, the Court of Justice’s judgment in Eurobolt (C-644/17) is well worth your time. The question at stake concerns whether a national court can request information from an EU Institution in order to rule on the validity of an EU act. Needless to…
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To my mind, this ingenious cinematic moment has always been the best metaphor for the fate of the radical democratic left in Greece—always finding itself in a minority. As a young supporter of Synaspismos and later SYRIZA, I never thought that a party which was struggling to reach the threshold for parliamentary representation would become…
Brexit has removed the EU as an external support system that prevented devolution from escalating and undermining the union. In this edited extract from his new book, State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union, Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen) warns that the Conservative Party’s vision of the UK as a ‘unitary state’ might…
Print this article POST 7 OF THE SERIES OF THE ODYSSEUS BLOG ON THE PACT ON MIGRATION & ASYLUM Lyra Jakuleviciene, Professor at Mykolas Romeris University, Vilnius The New Pact on Migration and Asylum introduces screening of third country nationals at the external borders (hereafter Screening Regulation, Regulation). The initial objective of this new instrument is…
PDF VersionVol 13, Issue 10Editorial board: Patrycja Grzebyk (editor-in-chief), Lucas Lixinski, Alina Miron, Anne Saab and Peter-Tobias StollCarl Jauslin* (Swiss Federal Office of Justice; University of Basel) Image by Pawel Czerwinski (cc) The relationship between solidarity and human rights may be described as a difficult marriage with a great potential. The two…
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Josepha Close, PhD The first post in this series reviewed the evolution of the hotspot approach as it was applied on the Greek islands. The present one focuses on a new incarnation of the hotspot approach: the ‘closed controlled access centres’ that are meant to replace hotspots in the reception of migrants on the Aegean…
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The UK has been in a long process of procurement law reform that was due to kick in on 28 October 2024, following a 6-month ‘go live’ notice for the Procurement Act 2023. Today, a 4-month delay has been announced and the new UK procurement rules will only enter into force on 24 February 2025…
PDF VersionVol 13, Issue 9Editorial board: Patrycja Grzebyk (editor-in-chief), Lucas Lixinski, Alina Miron, Anne Saab and Peter-Tobias StollIrene Victoria Massimino (IU McKinney, Indianapolis) Image by Rick Bajornas (cc) Introduction Proceedings in absentia tend to be controversial in both national and international criminal legal systems. In essence, critics complain that in absentia proceedings can deny…
Women are often assumed to be more risk averse than men, but is this also true of politicians? Drawing on a study of candidates in Portuguese elections, Pedro C. Magalhães and Miguel M. Pereira find that women standing for election tend to be substantially more willing to take risks than the men running against them….
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