It is the economic reality of the EU that there continue to exist vast differences between old and new Member States in the level of wages and in the relative position of workers vis-à-vis employers. In Viking and Laval the Court of Justice decided not to protect trade unions, representing...

Is there any objective legal ground – objective in the sense that it can be recognized as legitimate as a matter of jurisprudence even by lawyers and judges trained in the Common Law tradition – for the Chinese objection to the Statement? It is the purpose of this essay to demonstrate that a...

We empirically analyze convergence of European producer and consumer prices for diesel fuel and investigate the role of excise taxation. By comparing the speed of convergence of prices and taxes we find a surprisingly fast speed of convergence for consumer prices. While this can in part be...