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Diego Sánchez de la Cruz // 21 November 2023
The leader of the Socialist Party in Spain, Pedro Sánchez, has secured an agreement for his re-election as prime minister. Despite winning fewer seats …
Guy Mulders // 14 August 2023
Heading into the European elections next year, voters will most likely view migration as one of their top priorities. It is one of the …
Sangeeta Unnikrishnan // 25 July 2023
Transparency and accountability are vital pillars of democratic governance. However, the series of scandals that rocked the European Union over the last few years …
Otto Brøns-Petersen // 6 June 2023
In my opinion, we often overlook the benefits of the current EU. It is based on constitutional frameworks that, to a very large extent, …
Phoebe Campbell // 24 August 2021
In June, the European Parliament and Council of the EU reached a provisional agreement to transform the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) into a …
Frank Schäffler // 5 May 2021
Last month, the Berlin Rent Control Act was found to violate the German constitution. This was the right call, but the Federal Constitutional Court …
13 January 2021
The crisis in the rule of law that Poland has witnessed since 2015 must be contained as soon as possible. Any proposal to restore …
20 November 2020
As a member of various international and European organisations, Poland is bound by the requirement to respect the rule of law so as to …
Niccolo Fantini // 12 October 2020
The new Commission report on the rule of law in the EU has found that ‘there are serious challenges, cases where the resilience of …
21 September 2020
The presidential elections in Poland in 2020, which were won by the incumbent Andrzej Duda, the candidate of the ruling Law and Justice party, …
Ombeline Lemarchal // 27 July 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has not only led to a health and economic crisis across Europe, but also a political one. Political leaders …
Noemi Amelynck // 15 July 2020
Polish president, Andrzej Duda, and his close political ally, the Law and Justice Party, PiS, have not been shy of controversies during this last …
Serena Clarke // 14 November 2019
The EU’s Cohesion Policy comprises almost a third of the current seven-year budget. However, there is controversy as to whether cohesion projects have been …
Marek Tatala & Patryk Wachowiec // 14 January 2019
On 21 November, public opinion in Poland and the EU was surprised by the ruling Law and Justice’s (PiS) proposal “backtracking on controversial reforms …
Adam Bartha // 20 December 2018
The French ‘Gilets Jaunes’ started their protests a month ago and since then the global media landscape has interpreted their actions and demands in …
Marek Tatala // 14 February 2018
It is Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán who is to defend the Law and Justice (PiS) government against the consequences of violations of the …
Marek Tatala // 12 December 2017
On 24 November in many places around the world shops and their customers celebrated “Black Friday”, with promotional sales and special offers. This tradition, …
Nicolò Zanon, November 2015 In this IBL Occasional Paper, the author – a Justice of Italy’s Constitutional Court – discusses the legal and economic …
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