This is not an afterthought, but an entirely new, disturbing thought that kept me awake last night after I posted the comment on the de la Villa case. It occured to me that I ought not have been so optimistic about the ECJ judgement.
Did the ECJ truly indicate that it was open to reviewing the retirement [...]
Archive for October, 2007
Ageism and the ECJ – a thought after
Posted in Cases on October 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Palacios de la Villa – ECJ ruling on compulsory retirement
Posted in Cases on October 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Can we all be forced to retire at the age fixed by our national governments or by our employers? Seems not, and the ECJ certainly did not say its last word here! Again, an example of how European policies affect our daily lives, our laws, and our employment relations.
And, no, I am not going to [...]
Practice and academia. The best of both worlds….. or not?
Posted in Cases on October 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This one may be interesting for lawyers who work in legal practice and in academia in different European Member States (as well as for other part-time teachers in Europe). The Jundt case is currently pending before the ECJ and the opinion from Advocate-General Maduro has just been published. The question is whether a tax concession [...]
Off to Brussels
Posted in Events, Maximum Harmonisation on October 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am off to Brussels today – and will come back next Monday with some fresh ideas about European consumer law and …. of course – maximum harmonisation.
I will be having workshops with civil servants and representatives of European consumer organisations about EC consumer law. It is unbelievably eye-opening and challenging to work with these people who [...]
Poor old Volkswagen…
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The ECJ has declared today that the 1960s German law prohibiting anyone from owning more than 20% voting rights (irrespective of the actual number of shares held!) in Volkswagen was contrary to the EC freedom of cross-border trade and investment. The FT Brussels news indicated that this meant Porsche would be quite likely to take over [...]
EU Reform Treaty – interesting review
Posted in Reading on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hey, the EU Law Blog posted a good, to-the-point review of the Reform Treaty – for those of you trying to unpack the whole thing (difficult indeed) this is a good starting point! Well done, EU Bloggers!
Harmonisation continued… the double-headed approach of the ECJ concerning consumer protection
Posted in Maximum Harmonisation, Reading on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
As promised, more posts on harmonisation.
That it remains a hot issue, also for the ECJ, is highlighted in a recent article by Unberath and Johnston (”The double-headed approach of the ECJ concerning consumer protection” 44 Common Market Law Review 1237 – 1284, 2007). The article gives an insightful analysis of two policies at work [...]
Max harmonisation – total harmonisation – complete harmonisation? … who cares?…
Posted in Maximum Harmonisation on October 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is it, bloggists. This is why ECJWatch was created – maximum harmonisation! An absolutely fascinating, challenging, ambitious and inscrutable phenomenon in European integration. This is the one which can show us what really is so European about the European legal systems.
Noone said that maximum harmonisation was synonymous with total harmonisation. It is impractical and [...]
Maximum harmonisation and consumer protection – first case review on ECJWatch:
Posted in Maximum Harmonisation on October 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is a review of the recent case in which the ECJ explored the notion of maximum harmonisation. The review was written by Dr Vanessa Mak, who is going to speak on the concept of maximum harmonisation in consumer protection law on 21 November at the European and Comparative Law Institute of the University of [...]
ECJ – Europe’s most powerful institution?
Posted in Political on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hello fellow Europhiles, just a short post – and not about the new/old EU Constitutional/Unconstitutional treaty/amending treaty/instrument/unspecified mess.
And not even about whether we ought to have a referendum on the above. After all, though, if one subscribes to the notion of representative democracy – and I think most Europeans do – what is the use [...]
