Article 14 (2) of the Dutch Nationality Act (in Dutch: Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap) allows for the revocation of Dutch nationality of those who are convicted of terrorism-related crimes. However, ...

Only a vigilant democracy can be a resilient democracy. The public also deserves to know why the publication occurred at this ...

The Harvard case also shows systematic problems in the protection of academic freedom in the U.S. Unlike in Germany, academic ...

Such solidarity, however, needs a stable basis. Following the Commission’s plea (para. 50), the Court takes the view that this solidarity requires a link with a Member State society: “the special ...

The ongoing controversies over methods in EU law reflect a broader rethinking of the discipline, influenced by multiple crises in the European Union. Scholars are questioning traditional conceptions ...

What are we to make of this conception of citizenship, and its use by the Court to strike down citizenship for investment schemes? Because I am no EU lawyer, I approach these questions from the ...

On 4 November 2024, the Tribunal of Rome lodged a request for a preliminary ruling to the ECJ seeking clarification on the powers of MS to designate a third country and countries of origin as safe by ...

Commission v Malta, the Grand Chamber held that Malta’s investor citizenship scheme, which grants Maltese nationality in exchange for predetermined payments or investments, was contrary to EU law.

Make no mistake: the Court hints – for the first time – that EU citizenship bond is not only legal in nature. Citizenship has suddenly become a legal but also some other connection between a person ...

Paragraph 93: ‘Union citizenship is thus one of the principal concrete expressions of the solidarity which forms the very basis of the process of integration’. Note the ‘thus’. EU citizenship is the ...

Advocate-General Collins’ Opinion of 4 October 2024 had framed the Commission’s case as depending on the proposition that EU law requires a “genuine link” between a Member State and its nationals ...

“it is in the nature of political speech to be controversial and often virulent. That does not diminish its public interest, provided of course that it does not cross the line and turn into a call for ...