Fundamental Rights Protection in the EU Post Lisbon Treaty

Enhanced Cooperation under the Lisbon Treaty

resumé Enhanced cooperation is often regarded as being a way out of EU decisionmaking deadlock and as a major possibility of proceeding with European integration in selected areas. Although the mechanism has been in place since the Treaty of Amsterdam, enhanced cooperation has only recently become a reality, in two policy fields: divorce law and the single EU patent. Using these two cases, in t...

From Dublin to Lisbon: Ireland’s EU Reform Treaty Referendums and Their Lessons for Europe

Mutual Trust and the Dublin Regulation: Protection of Fundamental Rights in the EU and the Burden of Proof

The Dublin Regulation or Regulation 343/2003 allocates the responsibility of Member States for the assessment of individual asylum applications within the EU.1 It allows Member States to transfer an asylum seeker to another Member State if this latter state is considered responsible according to one of the so-called Dublin criteria. In what are considered to be landmark cases with regard to the...

An Economic Theory Model for Amending the Treaty of Lisbon

As the Eurozone crisis drags on, it is evident that a part of the problem lies in the architecture of debt and its liabilities within the Eurozone and, more generally, the European Union. This paper argues that a large part of the problem can be mitigated by permitting appropriately-structured cross-country liability for sovereign debt incurred by individual nations within the European Union. I...

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