The strain is exposing core institutions of the Fifth Republic. Bayrou reopened the long-standing intermittent debate on electoral reform, proposing to replace the two‑round majoritarian system with ...

The SAFE instrument pursues the central aim of sustainably strengthening the European defense industry through targeted and extensive public investments. Its primary focus lies in creating additional ...

The leaders of the assembled Asian states (mostly autocracies) once again decried the West’s (or North’s) “double standards” (Tianjin Declaration of 1 September 2025). The accusation of double ...

Under this Court’s precedents, not to mention common sense, those circumstances taken together can constitute at least reasonable suspicion of illegal presence in the United States. Kavanaugh’s ...

Instead, I am here to suggest that there has been a misdiagnosis of the issue, which has unnecessarily restricted the options we are offering the EUCO to deal with the Hungarian block. Indeed, the ...

The Fed sets interest rates through its Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). The FOMC consists of the seven presidentially ...

The Bill of Rights has constitutional effect based on the Hong Kong Basic Law (“Basic Law”). Conferring Hong Kong high autonomy within China, no restriction to freedom and rights in Hong Kong may ...

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Trump bench trial, however, shed light both on how the motivations for these military deployments are being internalized by the military establishment and why there is not yet demand for invoking ...

Our critics’ perception of reality also differs with regard to the Hungarian obstruction. Dawson and van den Brink doubt whether it constitutes a breach of solidarity. Still, it is well-established ...

At the resumption of political activity after the summer, France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou unexpectedly announced that he would use his constitutional prerogative (Article 49, paragraph 1) to ...

One of the most important institutional bodies, which also becomes highly relevant for the later analysis of judicial reforms, is the Judicial Council, adopted in 2001 and entrusted with broad ...