The precarious rights of senior citizens, especially those who are highly educated and who are expected to counsel and guide the younger generations, has stimulated the creation internationally of advocacy associations and opinion leader groups. The strength of these groups, however, varies from...

The author argues that in a democratic legal system internal market may not be regulated without sufficient attention being paid to national autonomy and diversity. In this light the principle of subsidiarity requires a withdrawal from the ideal internal market goal and orientation towards more...

Deriving from the former internal market Commissioner McCreevy's statement that the internal market needs to become more decentralised, the article explores to what degree the de minimis rule applies or should apply to the internal market, discussing in the process the advantages and...

In June 2010 the Commission decided to refer thirteen Member States, who still had not implemented the first package of EU railway legislation appropriately, to the CJEU, claiming that the Member States concerned prevented the establishment of a fully functioning single market for rail services...

The article considers several activities of Slovenian authorities and trade associations to promote domestic agricultural and food products. These protectionist activities have been particularly vivid in the past year, when a special parliamentary act on promotion of agricultural and food...