In Memoriam. To María Poza Cisneros, Senior Magistrate and Deputy National Member for Spain at Eurojust. The European Arrest Warrant (EAW) Framework Decision (FD) 2002/584/JHA
was designed to provide a speedy and efficient extradition procedure among EU Member States (MS). [...]
Prof. Dr. Thomas Giegerich, LL.M., Director of the Europa Institut and Jean Monnet Professor of European Integration, Antidiscrimination, Human Rights and Diversity at Saarland
University, still calls for papers in order to publish them on our Blog Jean-Monnet-Saar. [...]
This contribution discusses the recent case of Transportes Aereos, where the Court was faced with a question whether turbulent behaviour of a passenger that obstructs flight
operation and leads to diverting a plane may constitute an extraordinary circumstance under meaning provided by case-law and Regulation 216/2004. [...]
IntroductionOn 3 June 2020, the Commission issued the second phase of the consultation on possible EU action on fair minimum wages. The proposed action reflects the commitment
made by the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen to “propose a legal instrument to ensure that every worker in our Union has a fair minimum wage” [...]
Our latest Saar Expert Paper is now online: Prof. Dr. Giegerich discusses the recent judgment of the German Federal Constitutional Court on the Public Sector Asset Purchase
Programme of the European Central Bank. The article is directly available here. [...]
In November 2018, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “European army” to protect Europe from “China, Russia and even the United States of America.” This happened
as a response to the withdrawal of the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a treaty signed in 1987 that helped end the Cold War. [...]
Niels Kirst, Ph.D. Researcher in European Union Law at the School of Law and Government of Dublin City University**Rebloggedfrom the Bridge Network blogIntroductionIn a recent judgment,
the CJEU confirmed that Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic breached European Union law (EU law) by not implementing two Council Decisions (here and here; discussed [...]
Jeff Kenner, Professor of European Law, University of Nottingham*As the COVID-19 pandemic engulfs the world, requiring an unprecedented and, as of yet, unforthcoming global
response, the idea of Brexit, the sheer self-indulgence and chicanery of Brexit, has quickly become remote from the minds of policy makers and peoples alike. [...]
This contribution looks at the German Federal Constitutional Court’s PSPP judgment and its scrutiny of the methods of interpretation of EU law by the Court of Justice of
the EU. Notably, the GFCC introduced a new Solange: its intention to accept the CJEU’s methodology as long as the latter does not arbitrarily disregard the principles [...]
In einem neuen Saar Expert Paper befassen sich Karoline Dolgowski und Julia Jungfleisch mit der EuGH-Entscheidung in der Rechtssache C-457/18, Republik Slowenien gegen Republik
Kroatien, und stellen dabei u.a. die Frage, ob es sich bei der Problematik der Beilegung völkerrechtlicher Streitigkeiten zwischen EU-Mitgliedstaaten um ein niemals [...]
