need to obtain unanimity. However, the Commission’s proposal also raises serious EU state sovereignty concerns. This Note … threat to the national sovereignty of small EU states and raises important questions about the proper balance of power …

of the Court of Justice of the EU, on the highly sensitive issue of national tax sovereignty within Europe …

synthesizing empirical and normative modes of inquiry. It examines the transformation of sovereignty exercised by emerging … democracies and shows that - in stark contrast to emerging democracies' foreign policy rhetoric - the "softening" of sovereignty … has become the norm. The present paper assesses this softening of sovereignty on the basis of a "democratic …