Such solidarity, however, needs a stable basis. Following the Commission’s plea (para. 50), the Court takes the view that this solidarity requires a link with a Member State society: “the special ...

Commission v Malta, the Grand Chamber held that Malta’s investor citizenship scheme, which grants Maltese nationality in exchange for predetermined payments or investments, was contrary to EU law.

On 4 November 2024, the Tribunal of Rome lodged a request for a preliminary ruling to the ECJ seeking clarification on the powers of MS to designate a third country and countries of origin as safe by ...

The ongoing controversies over methods in EU law reflect a broader rethinking of the discipline, influenced by multiple crises in the European Union. Scholars are questioning traditional conceptions ...

On 11 February 2025, the Commission published its 2025 work programme and revealed the likely withdrawal of the Proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Liability Directive (‘AILD proposal’), citing ...

What are we to make of this conception of citizenship, and its use by the Court to strike down citizenship for investment schemes? Because I am no EU lawyer, I approach these questions from the ...

Paragraph 93: ‘Union citizenship is thus one of the principal concrete expressions of the solidarity which forms the very basis of the process of integration’. Note the ‘thus’. EU citizenship is the ...

“it is in the nature of political speech to be controversial and often virulent. That does not diminish its public interest, provided of course that it does not cross the line and turn into a call for ...

How resilient is trust? While fundamental principles are once again being violated in Turkey, Germany remains conspicuously ...

Three claims appear to summarise primacy’s alleged status quo: 2) It must be enforced as EU law is assumed to implement EU founding values, which are presumed to align with national constitutional ...

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled that the Maltese citizenship by investment violates EU law: ‘A programme of that sort amounts to the commercialization of the granting of the status of ...