EU Council Committees COJUR, public international law experts CIVCOM, Rule of Law in the Crisis Management

1990 1993 Head of the Department of International Law and EU Law at the Law Faculty

Since August 2004 senior legal expert EU Rule of law mission EUJUST THEMIS in Georgia

But the EU seems ready to ignore Serbia s disdain for international law.

But EU law expressly forbids any form of ECB financing of deficits.

In many EU member states, criminal law has been strengthened and is being used to prevent attacks.

In the United Kingdom, rules on public procurement are mainly limited to those of the EU law.

The EU, which has looked increasingly to the US model for competition law, began proceedings against Microsoft in 1993.

The US and EU aid agencies are rightly supporting rule of law and good governance programs in the region.

Take away respect for international law, and the EU would cease to exist almost overnight.

Indeed, the EU continues to exist precisely because its members respect treaties. Take away respect for international law, and the EU would cease to exist almost overnight.

In sum, the Constitutional Treaty firmly enshrines fundamental rights in law, and also makes the EU more democratic, more transparent, and more effective.

According to the analysts of the EU competition law rules, showing during the auction overall ranking instead of prices is preferable from competition law prospective.

The whole of Cyprus joined the EU in May 2004, but the acquis communautaire the body of EU law applies only to areas under direct government control, so it is suspended in those parts administered by Turkish Cypriots.

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Other terms such as place of business or non transitory establishment also could create problems under EU law.

The EU Counter Terrorism Strategy, also from 2005, is based on respect for human rights and international law.

Most of the RTAs signed by the EU do not contain such approximation clauses , but usually provide instead for standards similar to those prevailing under EU law which may indeed also be similar to those prevailing under the law of the other party.

The Volkswagen law also deters private investors from acquiring shares in the company, despite the principle of free capital mobility within the EU.

I believe that it is important that the EU carries out such monitoring in non EU states. But what about elections in EU member states?

Unlike in the case of the EU competition provisions, NAFTA members have not committed themselves explicitly to developing any form of supranational competition law.

The newly elected mayor pressed on with making civil service appointments according to the EU standards enshrined in the Federation's new Civil Service Law.

The supremacy of EU law would derive not from Acts of national Parliaments but from a supra national constitution.

The EU Must Act in Darfur

While the directive s rules governing migration of employed and self employed people hardly differ from previous EU law, the migration and social welfare rights of non working EU citizens have been significantly extended.

The law, harmonized with EU standards, passed the Bosnia and Herzegovina Parliamentary Assembly and was published on 15 June 2003 in the Official Gazette, No.

Most Moldovan emigrants work in the EU, and almost 75 of Moldova s population support EU membership.

First, the EU needs to focus on Pakistan because terrorists in Pakistan focus on the EU.

Bosnia and Herzegovina must ensure respect for the EU Copenhagen criteria, the rule of law and human rights for all.

The EU is Missing in Action in Afghanistan

Denmark informed the Secretariat that in 2004 the Danish Parliament had adopted Act No. 1434, on the enforcement of certain criminal law decisions in the European Union (EU).

The EU has multilateralism in its DNA.

From Hubris to Nemesis in the EU

People from the region still believe in the EU, but they are not sure that the EU believes in itself.

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The EU would invite non EU states to do likewise

It is happening in an EU member state. When will the EU intervene to stop this internal rot?

Only the European Central Bank could implement true socialization of national debt in the eurozone. But EU law expressly forbids any form of ECB financing of deficits.

Europeans should subject Russian investments in EU markets to greater scrutiny and use competition law to launch investigations into monopolistic practices and money laundering for existing investments.

The EU public procurement directive (the EU directive ) and legislation in a number of EU countries reviewed refer in that context to the publication of a prior information or indicative notice (PIN) .

Germany s Constitutional Court has been among the most prominent in declaring what it considers to be the appropriate limits to EU integration, consistent with the country s Basic Law (constitution). In a number of landmark judgments, the Court has expressed skepticism about any move toward a federal EU.

The EU parliamentarians called the Polish government s actions a witch hunt, and Geremek declared Poland s lustration law a threat to civil liberties.

In this regard, the EU has often obliged.