How can the Western Balkans make EU integration a success story?

Trade in goods is still hindered by long waiting times at Balkan borders due to poor transport infrastructure and double cross-border checks. Addressing this requires a larger investment than that set out in the New Growth Plan.

Ukraine war briefing: North Korea sending another 5,000 into Kursk โ€“ Russian claim

Trumpโ€™s โ€˜short attention spanโ€™ leaves Ukraine in lurch at โ€˜G6โ€™ summit. What we know on day 1,211North Korea will send โ€œa division of builders, two military brigades โ€“ 5,000 peopleโ€ as well as 1,000 demining personnel to the Kursk region, according to R…

Irish government to unveil bill banning imports from occupied Palestinian territories

Tรกnaiste to announce draft legislation tomorrow, covering trade in goods such as olives, oranges and dates The Irish government is to unveil a bill to ban imports from the occupied Palestinian territories in the first move by an EU member to curtail tr…

Trump rails against UKโ€™s โ€˜hugeโ€™ trade deficit as hopes of tariff exemption fade

British ministers are scrambling to avoid Trumpโ€™s tariffs.

FIFA launches fervent defense of Saudi Arabia World Cup in letter to EU lawmakers

MEPs had criticized the world football governing body for awarding the 2034 tournament to the Gulf petromonarchy.

Israel rejects EU call for ad-hoc summit

The country wants to hold a regular summit once Hungary assumes the presidency of the Council of the EU.

Finland opposes calls for EU trade sanctions on Israel

Trade ministers are discussing the EUโ€™s trade deal with Israel.

Weโ€™re all trying to find the Guy who did this โ€ฆ The Disapplication of the Illegal Migration Act in Northern Ireland

 Professor Colin Murray,
Newcastle Law School

Photo credit: Wknight94,
via Wikimedia
Commons

 

Introduction

The courtroom was anything but
packed on a grey Monday morning in Belfast. There were no camera crews outside.
And yet, for a smal…

Protecting the conditional autonomy of governing bodies in sport from review โ€˜from a competition standpointโ€™: how the Court should decide its pending cases on the transfer system, the regulation of agents and club (re-)location.

 Stephen Weatherill

Jacques Delors Professor of
European Law (Emeritus), Faculty of Law and Somerville College, University of
Oxford

Photo: Lassana Diarra, by ะ ั‹ะฑะฐะบะพะฒะฐ ะ•ะปะตะฝะฐ, on Wikimedia Commons

 

In preparing this paper I have
bene…

Belgium calls for EU sanctions on imports from Israeli-occupied territories

The call comes after EU countries imposed sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers for the first time last month.

The Dillon Judgment, Disapplication of Statutes and Article 2 of the Northern Ireland Protocol/Windsor Framework

 

 

Anurag Deb, PhD
researcher, Queens University Belfast, and Colin Murray, Professor of
Law, Newcastle Law School

Photo credit: Aaronward, via Wikicommons media

Extensive provisions of an Act of
Parliament have been disapplied by a dome…

Settling a potential Brexit dividend

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Saying Nothing much at all, to General Acclaim โ€“ The Windsor Framework Relaunch

 

Colin Murray,
Professor of Law, Newcastle Law School

Photo credit: en:User:Dom0803,
via Wikimedia
Commons

The landing space in which to do
a deal on the Windsor Framework and make it stick, second time round, was
remarkably small. The hard w…

Middle East crisis: US blames Houthis after ship hit by missile off Yemen

The vessel was struck from above by a rocket, UK monitoring center says.

Analyzing the legality of the EU Commissionโ€™s proposed withdrawal of preferential tariffs for third countries when cooperation on migrant returns โ€˜failsโ€™–an unholy alliance of trade and migration?

 

 

Marion Panizzon, Senior Research Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern*

 

*Privat-Docent, Dr.
iur., LL.M., Senior Research Fellow, World Trade Institute, University of Bern
and Legal Consultant, World Trade Advisors, …