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  • What works to make EU law work? Or, how can we ensure that EU law is implemented effectively in the member states? I have researched[1] this question by studying the usefulness of instruments that are meant to support national administrations in the application of EU law or that may otherwise be...

  • Refugee crisis and migration may obviously have a lot of different sources. The current refugee crisis in Europe is obviously strongly related to the war in Syria. However, quite often migration and hence a stream of refugees, can also be caused by natural disasters, even by climate change. Some...

  • More than 30 years ago, in the CILFIT-case, the Court of Justice (CoJ) of the European Union introduced a doctrine that all students of EU law all over Europe are taught up until today: the “Acte Clair”.