Increasingly some European Union Member States are undertaking practices to revoke or refuse nationality, and thus EU citizenship. The problem is that some of these practices are unlawful, meaning that the refusal of EU citizenship might also be unlawful in turn. This article will question the...

As the EU’s competences and activities in external relations expand, more and more documents held by EU institutions potentially fall within the scope of the ‘international relations’ and ‘defence and military matters’ exception contained in the EU’s Access to Documents Regulation...

This paper discusses the regulation of mass metadata surveillance in Europe through the lens of the landmark judgment in which the Court of Justice of the European Union struck down the Data Retention Directive. The controversial directive obliged telecom and Internet access providers in Europe...

Online commerce experienced a technological revolution, shifting towards automated, data-driven technologies for the allocation and display of offers and advertisings. The introduction of tracking and targeting technologies that leverage consumer data to personalize marketing catalysed the...

European agencies have become an established part of the European Union’s architectural set up and are the most proliferating institutional entities at the EU level. However, as their relevance and prevalence in the EU institutional landscape has increased, so have concerns with regards to the...

In charge of European police and judicial co-operation respectively, Europol and Eurojust are tasked with facilitating exchange of information, providing support to member states in coordinating operational activities. While ‘cooperation’ or ‘coordination’ agencies endowed with...

This paper explores the current place of Article 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (right to an effective remedy) in European private law and assesses whether this provision could form the basis of a judge-made European law on remedies. In order to make this assessment, first, the...

From a law-and-economics perspective, the European Commission's proposal for the introduction of an optional Common European Sales Law (CESL) has been criticized for over-regulating consumer sales law in Europe and for being likely to yield more costs than benefits. In defense of CESL, it is...

Dutch Abstract: In Nederland gevestigde ondernemingen maken op verschillende manieren gebruik van buitenlandse chauffeurs voor het verrichten van (inter)nationaal transport over de weg. Soms wordt gebruik gemaakt van speciale arbeidsrelaties zoals uitzendarbeid en collegiale inleen, soms wordt...

In this paper, I explore the debate on cross-border posting of workers in the EU from the perspective of ‘(dis)embeddedness'. Posting of workers profoundly challenges the embedding of the labour relationship itself and the market on which the work is performed. In this contribution I will...