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Read posts about EU Law written by International Law Blog, Daria Sartori, and Elena Borsacchi. An International Law Blog is a project launched in September 2014 and aims to provide students, junior lawyers and scholars at different stages of their professional and academic careers with a platform to discuss issues related to international, transnational, European and comparative law.
International Law Blog » EU Law
2y ago
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 ..read more
International Law Blog » EU Law
2y ago
Josepha Close, PhD Introduction This series of posts aims to examine the EU policy of deterrence and containment of asylum seekers at the borders of Europe. The first one focuses on the hotspot approach, a cornerstone of this policy introduced by the EU Commission in 2015 to manage high levels of migration at the Greek ..read more
International Law Blog » EU Law
2y ago
Manolis Perakis Assistant Professor of EU Law, Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece In the context of promoting the rule of law as a fundamental value that must govern the action of the Union and its Member States, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its judgment on appeal ..read more
International Law Blog » EU Law
2y ago
Katerina Pampouki, Final Year Law Student at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) Introduction The healthcare sector is incredibly complex in itself and often incites emotive responses, especially so because of its public significance. The difficulties of dealing with such complexity are exacerbated with the addition of the European dimension. However, there ..read more
International Law Blog » EU Law
2y ago
Giulia Calini, LL.M. in Law and Sustainable Development, University of Milan. The European Union’s decisions are taken on the basis of the rule of law, which EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding defined as ‘a system in which no one, no government, no public official, no dominant company, is above the law. It means equality before ..read more
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2y ago
Felicitas Benziger, Dipl.-Jur., LLM, MPhil/PhD candidate at Middlesex University The 16th November 2020, Hungary and Poland have released their warning that they would veto the adoption of the EU’s budget for the next seven years. The reason for the veto was their dissatisfaction with the introduction of a new rule of law mechanism, which would ..read more
International Law Blog » EU Law
2y ago
About International Law Blog International Law Blog was established in 2014 by a group of doctoral students whose paths first crossed at Middlesex University of London. The blog hosts peer-reviewed scholarly contributions on a variety of topics in the areas of International, Transnational, European and Comparative law. An International Law Blog is now an established ..read more
International Law Blog » EU Law
2y ago
Introduction* On 29 January 2019, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”, or “Court”) issued a judgment in the case of Güzelyurtlu and others v. Cyprus and Turkey. The judgment represents an interesting evolution of the Court’s case law concerning procedural obligations under Article 2 ECHR (right to life). The ECtHR ..read more