Verfassungsblog | 27. April 2012 — Unser famoser Innenminister findet es gemeinsam mit seinem französischen Kollegen furchtbar wichtig, die Kontrolle über die EU-Außengrenzen als integralen Bestandteil der nationalen Souveränität zu erhalten. Es ist sicher Zufall, dass der EuGH kurz nach dieser Nachricht gleich zwei Urteile …
Austrotrabant's Blog | 22. April 2012 — ... 8/10s, Wintersteiger]. Just about two month later, on the 19 of April 2012, the ECJ issued its decision on this reference for a preliminary ruling. The court found that Google ... , confusing the two companies which are competitors on the European Union internal market. Decision by t…
Verfassungsblog | 17. April 2012 — ... courts are bound to disagree on this highly contested question. Presumably for this reason, the ECJ in Zambrano explicitly avoided connecting the theme of Union citizenship with fundamental rights, in ... which is clearly not the situation envisaged by the Heidelberg proposal, an involvem…
Verfassungsblog | 13. März 2012 — Der Sohn kann nicht unbedingt etwas dafür, wenn der Vater ein Schurke ist – aber bei der Tochter ist das anders: Die haftet für die Übeltaten der Mutter. So zumindest der EuGH in zwei heute verkündeten Urteilen, die beide die Frage betreffen, bis zu welchem Grad die EU bei Sanktionen gegen St…
Transblawg | 13. März 2012 —I'm a bit late in recognizing the new abbreviation of the Court of Justice of the European Union, CJEU, rather than the earlier ECJ. There's a useful document in the House of Commons Library - Standard Note SN/IA/3689: The European Union: a guide to terminology, procedures and sources, last updated …
Verfassungsblog | 6. März 2012 — EU-Mitgliedsstaaten müssen sich nicht vertragen. Aber ihr Streit darf nicht so weit gehen, dass sie nicht mehr miteinander reden. Zu diesem Schluss kommt Generalanwalt Yves Bot in seinen heute veröffentlichten Schlussanträgen in einem Fall, der sich – jawohl – um Ungarn dreht. Genauer gesa…
Verfassungsblog | 29. Februar 2012 — The Czech Constitutional Court’s recent decision to declare a previous CJEU judgment ultra vires has raised considerable concern in the EU legal community. Jan Komarek on this blog accused the CCC of “playing with matches”. Arthur Dyevre analyzes the situation from a game theory and internati…
Verfassungsblog | 23. Februar 2012 — ... from current inconsistencies. Why should the ECJ not become active and enforce ... the applicable legal standard). Moreover, the ECJ’s Grand Chamber does not ... preliminary reference form Austria, the ECJ remains deliberately vague: presumably the ... reasoning and predictable outcome…
Verfassungsblog | 22. Februar 2012 — ... for example, could have gotten his fundamental rights review from the ECJ. Recall that the ECJ rejected Mr. Kremzow’s plea from jail to review his Austrian murder conviction. ... Paris, he could have gotten his review from the ECJ. He would have been rather in the same ... only made …
Verfassungsblog | 22. Februar 2012 — ... to its rejected letter the CCC “reminded that the CJEU regularly uses the institute of amici curiae in preliminary ruling procedure, in particular in relation to the Commission. in the situation when the ECJ was aware, that the Czech Republic as a party to the proceedings, acting through i…
Verfassungsblog | 21. Februar 2012 — ... commitments of party policy as embodied in national legislation? In that case there would still be the possibility of the Commission or another state to bring a case against Hungary before the ECJ. That might not resolve the issue of a slide towards authoritarianism. But seen as a whole …
Verfassungsblog | 18. Februar 2012 — I’d like to thank Alexandra, Max, and Christoph for inviting me to participate in this fascinating exchange. As an American, I feel like the outsider here. Moreover, I have just written a book (in part from an American perspective, but also deeply grounded in integration history) that argue…
Verfassungsblog | 16. Februar 2012 — Die Parallelen zwischen den Notoperationen zur Euro-Rettung und einer EuGH-Grundrechtsintervention in Ungarn sind bemerkenswert: In beiden Fällen zeigen sich Konstruktionsschwächen der EU-Verträge, und die Befürworter von „mehr Europa“ fordern eine Stärkung der überstaatlichen Aufsichts- und …
Verfassungsblog | 15. Februar 2012 — ... of their status as citizens” which has first been emphasised by the ECJ’s Ruiz Zambrano ruling, it is necessary to fill the gap of ... . If, in addition to this scenario, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) fills in for member states in the role of protector of ... substance through the co…
Verfassungsblog | 15. Februar 2012 — ... altogether enabled European integration. The ECJ has produced the ingredients for ... instrument. Union citizenship, ruled the ECJ, grants the “fundamental status” of ... subsidiarity. In Ruiz Zambrano, the ECJ used Union citizenship to find ... means of Union citizenship, the ECJ …
