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“Action Plan for Affordable Energy” – a solution for citizens or a win for big corporations? – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

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“Action Plan for Affordable Energy” – a solution for citizens or a win for big corporations? – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

Cecília Pires (PhD Candidate at the School of Law of the University of Minho | FCT research scholarship holder – 2023.01072.BD) In February 2025, the European Commission presented the “Action Plan for Affordable Energy”,[1] a strategy developed within the framework of the “Competitiveness Compass for the European Union (EU)”, which aims to reorient the work … Read more

Editorial of April 2025 – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

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Editorial of April 2025 – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

“Readiness 2030” vs. “Disney power” (European security and defence on the subject of the 72-hour survival kit) Pedro Froufe [Editor of this blog and Key Staff Member of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Digital Citizenship and Technological Sustainability” (CitDig)] “Readiness 2030” is the new name for Europe’s security and defence plan. In fact, the specific … Read more

echoes of the “Portuguese Judges” judgment in the joined cases C-146/23 and C-374/23 – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

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echoes of the “Portuguese Judges” judgment in the joined cases C-146/23 and C-374/23 – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

João Pedro Sousa (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of the University of Minho) 1. Preliminary considerations Judicial independence is a fundamental pillar of the rule of law enshrined in Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU). It guarantees that judges are free from external pressures – whether … Read more

7 years of the “Portuguese Judges” judgment – understanding where we come from so we know where we are going – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

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7 years of the “Portuguese Judges” judgment – understanding where we come from so we know where we are going – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

Juan Gálvez Galisteo (PhD student at the University of Seville, undertaking a research stay at the University of Minho) I. 27 February 2018. This is the date on which the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) handed down its landmark judgment in the “Portuguese Judges” case [Associação Sindical dos Juízes Portugueses v. Tribunal … Read more

Editorial of March 2025 – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

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Editorial of March 2025 – Official Blog of UNIO – Go Health Pro

Alessandra Silveira [Editor of this blog, Coordinator of Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence “Digital Citizenship and Technological Sustainability” (CitDig), UMinho] The new world (dis)order and the European Defence Union (on three years since the invasion of Ukraine) On 24 February 2022, while the planet was still rising from the depths of the pandemic, barbarity returned … Read more