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Federation: The 1960 constitution of the Republic of Cyprus has been characterised as a ‘functional federation’. The reason behind this characterisation is the following. The Constitution established institutions of a common State where the presence of representatives of both communities was compulsory. At the same time, it guaranteed a great deal of (non-territorial) autonomy for the…

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Confiscation of criminally obtained assets can be imposed in civil courts without a conviction. Since this move is controversial, the EU is now seeking strict safeguards and could look to Indonesia as an example. In non-conviction-based confiscation (NCBC) proceedings, a court rules to confiscate assets from an individual without a preceding criminal prosecution. Models of…

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Following weeks of disrupted trade flows, rejected calls to invoke Article 16, security concerns for officials conducting checks required at ports, and a European Commission misjudgement which would have seen Article 16 invoked, enough has been enough for Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). In a statement issued by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on 2nd…

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