Ouverture
On 22 October 2014, the Italian Constitutional Court (CC) delivered the judgment no. 238 of 2014. This ruling reignited the fire of Ferrini (a 2004 judgment of the Italian…
On 6 March 2014, the Court delivered the order in the Siragusa case. This decision sheds new light on the old question of the application of the Charter…
On July 18, 2013, the Grand Chamber
of the Court of Justice of the European Union (“the Court”) handed down the judgment
in the so-called Kadi II dispute.
With this decision, the…
In a previous
post, I maintained that the judgment in the Åkerberg Fransson case
did not extend the application of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights beyond
the familiar area derived from…
In
case C-617/10 Fransson, the elusive
matter of the application of the Charter to national measures came to the
forefront once more (see this
previous post that touched on the issue). The Swedish…