By the end of 2009, Ireland, the Czech Republic, and Poland finally ratified the Treaty of Lisbon. This marked the end of a turbulent period that had seen the Laeken Declaration, a controversial and rejected proposal for a Constitution for Europe (in 2005), and the hard fight over the compromise...

This comprehensive paper looks at various developments in the regulation of new media in Europe, such as copyright and intellectual property, liability of Internet intermediaries, net neutrality in Europe, Google and the Commission competition investigation, Public Service Broadcasters' online...

With a population of 73 million, second only to Germany when compared to the 27 European Union Member States, and a gross domestic product growth rate of 8 percent, Turkey is a force to be reckoned with on the outskirts of Europe. Turkey harbors the largest city in Europe (Istanbul, with an...

Although patents are the prototypical type of protection that most people consider applicable to protecting drugs, patents are just the most-established and well-known method available to protect drugs from competition. However, there are other types of mechanisms in regulatory laws that provide...

Regulation of public procurement is seen inevitable in the context of the WTO international trade regime. Market-oriented reforms of public procurement in EU member states have also been viewed as important steps towards realizing a single market in Europe. Although in the EU some 16 percent of...

Europe has gone through a wave of liberalisation in the last two decades. Measures were first adopted to that effect in the telecommunications sector, which has since then become the sector of electronic communications. They were extended, afterwards, in their substance, to other economic...

The harmonization of criminal law and procedure is still in its infancy within European Union law and so the relationship between the commercial framework of intellectual property and the criminal enforcement of its standards remains an unsettled and unsettling adolescence. The Proposal for a...

In this text, I question the current ambiguity and hypocrisy as to member state centered regulations for gambling services. It is time to move beyond the state borders and implement a transnational EU gambling regulation, made adequate and effective with the help by strong national gambling...