This Article deals with the many and varied meanings attributed to legal terms within the European legal system. The phenomenon should not be a cause for complacency. The broader the ambit of application which a term has, the greater the number of different legal translations … [Read more...]

Starting from an analysis of two pending cases before the ECJ (Laval and Vikingcase), the paper focuses on the issue of the scope and significance the EU intends to accord to collective actions within the dynamics of European integration. In the first part of the paper the author … [Read more...]

This paper aims at reconstructing the largely unexplored administrative dimension of the European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP), with particular reference to the growing web of functional, organizational and procedural interconnections between the EU, the Nato and the United … [Read more...]

The negative outcomes of the French and Dutch referenda on the Constitutional Treaty have opened a period of profound constitutional disenchantment in relation to the EU. This impression seems confirmed by the recent Presidency Conclusions of the European Council which, although … [Read more...]

This article is about the state of social rights in the European Union, in comparison with their protection at national level. The first part aims to define the term of social citizenship as it is understood in European legal culture. The second part examines the recent evolution … [Read more...]