In May 2020, for the first time in its history, the Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) of Germany declared Union acts as being ultra vires. According to the FCC, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) had acted beyond their mandates because they did...

Since 2002 and the publication of the Mandelkern report,1 the question of reducing burdens and costs, both regulatory and administrative, has emerged as a recurrent topic that regularly comes up at the European Council. It is, moreover, revealing that one of the points of rupture that led the...

Die ohne Zutun der europäischen Politik vom Europäischen Gerichtshof und der Kommission betriebene „Integration durch Recht“ hat eine extensive Dynamik der Liberalisierung entfaltet. Wie lässt sich dieser Umstand erklären? Mit dieser Frage hat sich die 2008 gegründete...