Constitutional Grey Area or Executive Aggrandizement? Four months in, France’s political roller-coaster has gone from confusing to confounding: from the shock of the far-right National Rally’s (RN) victory in the European Parliament election in early June, followed by President Emmanuel Macron’s risky decision to call a snap election for France’s lower house of parliament (National … Read more
This is the first Op-Ed of a Symposium on the Apple State Aid case ( C‑465/20 P). More Op-Eds will follow soon in EU Law Live. The recent final ruling on the Apple State-Aid case surprised many commentators, including this author, who trusted the Court of Justice of the European Union (‘the Court’) would be a … Read more
Stephen Weatherill, Somerville College and Faculty of Law, Oxford University Photo credit: Addesolen, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction ‘Is this the end of football’s transfer system?’ So shrieked the media in December 1995 when the Court of Justice decided the Bosman case (C-415/93). And the same question has now hit the headlines after … Read more
Sanctions affect the economies of both sanctioned and sanctioning states. Stelios Sakkas and Konstantinos Mavrigiannakis present new research on the impact of EU sanctions against Russia on the economy of Cyprus. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 increased global economic uncertainty at a time when economies were just recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. Most … Read more
In 2023, European lawmakers were busy improving the protection of consumers in financial services. In addition to the new Directive 2023/2225 on consumer credit (on which we reported here), the regime distance marketing of financial service was also revamped. The new Directive 2023/2673 on financial services contracts concluded at a distance repeals the current Directive … Read more