The CJEU’s case law on direct taxation is now in its thirties. In this matter, which vastly remains within the competence of Member States, European law is increasingly relevant since the Court has decided to launch what can be called a “negative tax integration” limiting the possibility to exercise national sovereignty in the name of the protection of free movement and ...
di Jean-Claude Bonichot, Giudice presso la Corte di giustizia dell’Unione europea,Lussemburgo
Hervé Cassagnabère, Referendario presso la Corte di giustizia dell’Unioneeuropea, Lussemburgo.
The present paper provides an in-depth analysis of EU Council presidency system set up by the Lisbon Treaty. The plurality that characterises the traditional rotating presidency (as many presidents as are the configurations and the preparatory groups of the EU Council) has now become particularly complex. Since the Lisbon Treaty not only the rotating presidency is formally organized of ...
di Roberto Adam, Ordinario di Diritto dell’Unione europea, Scuola Nazionaledell’Amministrazione di Roma.
Surrogacy, which raises several legal and ethical questions, imposes a delicate balancing of the different rights involved: the rights of children born from surrogacy, the rights of surrogate mothers, the rights of children waiting for adoption and the rights of intended parents.
The situation becomes more complicated when it comes to cross border surrogacy, which involves serious issues of ...
di Ilaria Anrò, Ricercatore di Diritto dell’Unione europea, Università Statale diMilano.
Communications are “non-typical acts” of the European Union, which are mainly adopted by the Commission. This article highlights, first of all, how the EU case-law has recognized to Communications some specific ‘soft-law’ effects, i.e. the effect of orienting future actions from the part of the institution that has adopted them, as well as a related legality effect in ...
di Piero De Luca, Referendario presso la Corte di giustizia dell’Unione europea,Lussemburgo.
The article analyzes the legal framework of economic policy in the EU in light of the innovations introduced in EU primary law by the Lisbon Treaty. As it suggests, the constraints, and potentials of the Lisbon Treaty have not been fully explored due to the Euro-crisis, which exploded at the same time in which the Treaty was entering into force. By adopting a constitutional reading of EU primary ...
di Federico Fabbrini, Ordinario di Diritto dell’Unione europea, Dublin cityUniversity di Dublino
This paper analyses the most important provisions of the Treaty of Lisbon about EU peace operations in the field of the Common security and defence policy, starting with an attempt to classify the different kinds of operations: military and civilian.
di Gaspare Fiengo, Ricercatore di Diritto dell’Unione europea, Università“Suor Orsola Benincasa” di Napoli
This article examines the Cross Border Ruling introduced within the EU VAT Forum (EVF). It begins by analyzing the functioning of the EVF, which was created following a decision of the European Commission on 3 July 2012, highlighting its advisory function and the flexibility of its internal procedures. The article then goes on to examine the Cross Border Ruling (CBR). The CBR serves primarily to ...
di Fabrizio Vismara, Associato di Diritto Internazionale, Università dell’Insubriadi Varese
The author analyses the Court of Justice’s case-law on the incorporation of the respect of fundamental rights of migrants within the immigration policy enshrined in the Treaty of Lisbon.
Concerning the asylum applications, the author a) stresses how the Court of Justice has taken inspiration from the case law of the European Court for Human Rights (ECtHR), b) affirms, concerning the ...
di Paolo Mengozzi, Avvocato generale presso la Corte di giustizia dell’Unioneeuropea, Lussemburgo
The present paper deals with the actions for damages against the EU in a specific area of application concerning the damage sustained by natural and legal persons following their inclusion in antiterrorism black lists. The different EU acts containing such restrictive measures have been the object of numerous and successful applications before the Court of Justice of the EU to obtain the ...
di Michele Messina, Ricercatore di Diritto dell’Unione europea, Università diMessina