Following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU has acquired new competences in a number of policy fields such as international investment policy and tourism policy. The European ...

On 16 May 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued the long-awaited landmark Opinion 2/15 on the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA). According to the CJEU, the EU-Singapore ...

It is no surprise to find the CJEU re-asserting a more aggressive approach to armonisation and the division of competences, writes Paul Stanley QC How EU law divides up the power of the union and the ...

The EU has six exclusive competences. In these areas, the EU makes legislation and decisions in these areas on its own. The nation state takes no decisions and does not interfere with the competence ...

The German understanding of EU competences however has always been part of a wider EU reform agenda. While the UK government of has been trying to demonstrate since the prime minister’s speech in ...

A final decision with respect to the location of the new EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (“AMLA”) is expected on 22 February 2024, but it’s clear that ...

The European Socialists claim that the EU should consider setting up of a common defence policy incorporated in the Treaties in order to be up to the challenge of the present international crisis and ...

In order to show off their new eurosceptic credentials, the Dutch government announced a major "subsidiarity review" of Dutch EU policy – begging comparisons with the UK’s home-grown "competence ...