Understanding Resistance to the EU Fundamental Rights Policy

Policy Brief 09-11: Understanding Special Drawing Rights (SDRs)

John Williamson, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute, has been associated with the Institute since 1981. He was project director for the UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development (the Zedillo Report) in 2001; on leave as chief economist for South Asia at the World Bank during 1996–99; economics professor at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (1978–81), University of W...

Reasoning with fundamental rights

People often withdraw previously drawn conclusions in light of new information. This defeasible reasoning is also important for law, where judges often have to change their verdicts in light of new evidence. Here we investigate defeasibility in the context of conflicting fundamental rights. When, for instance, law to property conflicts with law to information, can one of these rights be “defeat...

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...

A conceptual framework for genetic policy: comparing the medical, public health, and fundamental rights models.

EU External Trade Policy

The external trade policy of the EU impinges on nearly one fifth of world trade. Hence, an understanding of the principles and practice of the Union's trade policy, the Common Commercial Policy (CCP), is of vital importance to any student of the global trade environment. Ongoing research on the CCP has addressed both broad themes and detailed aspects of the Union's trade policy provides insight...