23 January 2019
Investor Citizenship and Residence: the EU Commission’s Incompetent Case for Blood and Soil
Today, on 23 January 2019 the Commission released its ‘Report on Investor Citizenship and Residence Schemes in the European Union.’ The Report will definitely not be entered on the roll-call of the documents the Commission could even vaguely be proud of. Continue reading >>
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13 October 2018
Some Thoughts on Facultative and Obligatory Mixity after Singapore and COTIF, and before CETA
The conclusion of agreements as ‘mixed’, that is jointly by the European Union and its Member States, is a legal phenomenon peculiar to the EU legal order. Notwithstanding the almost complete silence of the Treaties on the point, mixity quickly became common practice for the Union and was, in most instances, readily accepted by its contractual partners. That does not mean, however, that mixity has not given rise, to date, to lengthy and often heated debates within, between and before the EU institutions. Continue reading >>
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