Ane Aranguiz, PhD Candidate, University of AntwerpOn 16 April 2019 the Commission launched the discussionon how to render decision-making process at EU level more efficient

in the social field by activating the passerelleclauses and moving from unanimity to qualified majority voting (QMV) and from special to ordinary legislative procedure [...]

Prof. Dr. Thomas Giegerich hat zum gestrigen Urteil des EuGH einen Saar Brief unter dem Titel „Noch ist der Rechtsstaat nicht verloren: Der EuGH stellt eine Verletzung der

richterlichen Unabhängigkeit durch den polnischen Gesetzgeber fest“ veröffentlicht. [...]

By Femke van der Eijk and Angela Pandita Gunavardana China’s global influence has grown dramatically in recent years. Its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is an important manifestation

of this rise. On 23 March 2019 Italy, the first G7 country, formally joined the BRI, which has caused significant tensions within the EU. [...]

Alexandros Antoniou, University of Essex, School of Law - a.antoniou@essex.ac.ukOn 19 June 2019, the EU General Court (GC) ruled that the three-stripe EU trade mark (EUTM)

owned by Adidas was invalid. It upheld the earlier decision of the EU Intellectual Property Office’s (EUIPO) Second Board of Appeal, which had found that the trade [...]

Salvo Nicolosi (RENFORCE - Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe)While a new European Union legislature is about to start on 2 July 2019, it is not certain

to what extent the new European Parliament will inherit and continue the work of the previous one in one of the most delicate areas under reform, such as the Common [...]

Conference “The protection of economic, social and cultural rights in the age of exits” The Hague, 21-22 November 2019. Deadline for abstract submissions: 30 June 2019.

Workshop “Judicial and extra-judicial challenges in the EU multi- and cross-level administrative framework” [...]

Julia Burchett, PhD candidate at the Université libre de Bruxelles and the University of GrenobleIntroductionThe European Arrest Warrant, regularly presented as “the flagship”

of EU criminal law, is in practice one of the most used mechanisms (if not the most used) of judicial cooperation in criminal matters. [...]

Bartłomiej Bednarowicz, PhD Researcher at the Faculty of Law of the University of AntwerpBackgroundOn Thursday, the Council decidedthat Bratislava will host the headquarters

of a brand new EU agency: the European Labour Authority (ELA). The idea for the ELA was spelt out by President Juncker already in September 2017 in his annual State [...]

By Sebastian Bechtel Currently pending before the CJEU is a fundamental issue regarding the assessment of environmental effects of major projects: Should their impacts only

be reassessed when construction takes place? Or should there also be an environmental impact assessment (‘EIA’) if an aging project is allowed to continue operation [...]

By Johannes Graf von Luckner It is a statement that one would more readily expect from political activists – it was, however, issued by the Court of Justice of the European

Union (CJEU): Public prosecutor’s offices in Germany are not sufficiently independent to issue European arrest warrants (EAWs) (Joined Cases C-508/18 and C-82/19 [...]