The EU-Turkey Statement of 18 March 2016, widely known as “the deal” or the EU-Turkey deal, has been one of the most controversial policy steps taken by the EU in recent years. This policy brief, which also aims to serve as an amicus curiae brief, examines two interrelated aspects of the...

This article discusses the importance of European company law for intra-EU investments after the recent decision of the CJEU in Achmea. In Achmea, the CJEU examined bilateral investment treaties (BITs) concluded between EU Member States in the light of EU law. More specifically, the CJEU...

In the struggle for supremacy between two diametrically opposed systems to protect Geographical Indications (GIs), the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) gives the decisive push in favour of the trademark system. This has profound implications for generic geographical names, not only for...

With the referenda on possible Scottish and Catalan independence and the electoral successes of the Flemish pro-independence movement, secession of part of a EU Member State has become a real possibility that cannot be ignored any longer. The driving forces behind the referenda seek independence...

This article analyses the priorities of European competition law in the air transport sector in the light of the ongoing process of the industry's consolidation. The oligopolistic nature of the airline business results in a natural tendency towards its concentration. From the standpoint of...

The EU has included human rights clauses in its international trade and cooperation agreements since the early 1990s. These clauses permit a party to a trade agreement to adopt ‘appropriate measures' in the event that the other party violates human rights or democratic principles. This study...

This article analyzes the changes in European governance since the beginning of the euro crisis in relation to the project of constructing Social Europe. The article tracks the incorporation of a structural reform agenda originally designed as bailout conditionality for countries on the verge of...

This paper analyses the legal substance of the customs procedure of the free customs zone in the Eurasian Economic Union by investigating its main features and peculiarities. In particular, we show that the customs procedure of the free customs zone is an economic instrument of state regulation...

This article develops a theoretical framework for analyzing the regulation of the household and its effects on the economy. Incorporating insights from family economics, comparative family law, legal realism, political economy and feminism, it describes the array of different legal regimes that...