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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The UCP issues binding decisions in two types of procedure. One is the procedure in the interest of uniformity of law (“PIL”) (“ jogegységi eljárás ”) and the other is the uniformity complaint ...

Climate litigation is increasingly becoming a hot topic of debate in Italy. This especially concerns the question of jurisdiction of the Italian judiciary and the potential liability of both public ...

Auch wenn damit der Wahlausschuss vor der Wahl verhältnismäßig „einfach“ entsprechende Ausschlüsse aussprechen kann, haben die Ausgeschlossenen gleichwohl die Möglichkeit, im nachträglichen ...