In 2013, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) was called to decide the Povse case, where the Bosphorus presumption was confronted with the principle of mutual trust and automatic recognition of judgments. These ...

This article concerns the controversial issue of the limits of the invocability of EU directives in triangular situations. It occurs where an individual invokes against a public authority an obligation imposed on such ...

This paper deals with EU citizenship and with some of the persistent ambiguities present in the case law of the Court of Justice. In the first part, it shows that EU citizenship, at the beginning, had a series of contradictions ...

The international vocation of human rights contributes to enrich the heritage of values of each State and, at the same time, requires the establishment of guarantee instruments that transcend national boundaries and disregard ...

This article purports to analyse the “infringement proceedings” ex art. 46, paras. 4-5 ECHR in comparison to the “EU model” ex arts 258-260 TFEU, underlining similarities and divergences between them, in particular in the ...

The complex legal/institutional evolution that has always characterized the International Organization for Migration (IOM) culminated in the recent 2016 agreement on relations with the United Nations that defines this ...

This article analyses the most recent European legislation on skilled migration - which ensures a more advanced treatment as compared to other categories of third-country nationals - with the aim of assessing whether its ...

The supremacy of European law on the Member States’ law is a basic principle of the European integration process. Nonetheless there are some limits: the so-called “counter-limits”, developed by the constitutional jurisprudence ...