Not exactly a Xmas merrymaking post, but I wrote something on the changing environment for international academics in the Netherlands and how it has changed over the last 10 years: open.substack.com/pub/alexandr...

⚖️ Judgment in Case C-19/23 Denmark v Parliament and Council: is the #EU competent to adopt a directive on adequate minimum wages? 🎥 💬 The President of the Court explains with subtitles in all EU languages 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/p1... 📰 PR 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo... #MinimumWage

Very happy to share the Call for Papers for the 2nd Legal Tech Summit - submit your research on "genAI in legal practice" until Nov 15 and be part of next year's Summit on 26 and 27 March 2026 @wuvienna.bsky.social! 🚀 #LegalTech #CfP www.wu.ac.at/ltc/events/e...

A very warm welcome to our Michaelmas Term 2025 CELS Seminar Series - please join us online and in person @cambridgelaw.bsky.social. Open to all. www.cels.law.cam.ac.uk/weekly-semin...

Very interesting postdoc position in EU law at the University of Salzburg: karriere.plus.ac.at/en/jobs/51eb... @unisalzburg.bsky.social @sceus.bsky.social #jobs #EUlaw

#ECJ: A national court must consider the judgment of a higher court that does not constitute an independent and impartial tribunal previously established by law to be null and void #RuleOfLaw 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

🐾Today we celebrate International Dog Day. Our colleagues shared photos of their companions who bring joy and laughter every day. Dogs are more than pets. Search and rescue dogs save lives with courage and dedication, reminding us of the unique bond between humans and dogs. 🐶

Nine months after gaining jurisdiction to hear preliminary rulings, the #EUGeneralCourt delivers its first judgment: legislation imposing #ExciseDuties on fictitious deliveries and false invoices is incompatible with #EUlaw 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

EU economy and finance ministers have approved #Bulgaria's entry into the euro area. From 1 January 2026, Bulgaria will start using the 💶 euro and enjoy the benefits of joining the single currency. Find out more about how EU countries adopt the euro 👇👇 europa.eu/!Nnk4xx

@tricondublin.bsky.social New Voices in Constitutional Law Workshop 3rd Oct. Great opportunity for ECRs across the island of Ireland to present and get focused feedback on their work in public/constitutional law. Abstracts due July 31st!

MEPs do not believe the legal basis the Commission used to set up SAFE, which deprives them of their right to co-legislate, is the right one. #EuropeNews

The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration. My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...

Agriculture Committee votes on first EU rules on welfare of dogs and cats On Tuesday, the Agriculture Committee adopted its position on EU standards for the breeding, housing, and handling of cats and dogs. Details ⤵️ www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...

Excellent news – our Defence Industrial Readiness Loan Instrument, SAFE, has been agreed by Member States. Europe is taking greater responsibility for its own defence in an increasingly dangerous world. ↓

*Why* does it matter that NOBODY in the UK currently knows whether or not they have Withdrawal Agreement based residence rights? A Court of Appeal judge asked this yesterday. IT MATTERS, as our evidence to the HoL European Affairs Committee explains, for 3 reasons (spolier alert: one is Windrush):

#ECJ: The Maltese investor citizenship scheme is contrary to #EULaw #EUCitizenship golden #passports 👉 curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...

🚨 #PhD Opportunity Want to research Anti-Money Laundering #AML in the #EU? We’re offering a 4-year, fully funded PhD at Dublin City University! 🔗+ info jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ995/d... Please share! @dublincityuni.bsky.social @deli-dcu.bsky.social

🚀 We’ve joined Bluesky! Stay informed about key rulings, insights, and how #CJEU judgments shape #EUlaw and your daily life. Follow us and stay up to date! ⚖️🌍 #ECJ

Et voilà: Germany's €500 billion investment package and debt brake reform for defence spending passed with a stable majority in the Bundestag. Next step: Bundesrat www.zdf.de/nachrichten/...

About time I shifted over to BlueSky - follow for thoughts on tax law and policy, as well as shameless self-promotion!

New Op-Ed discussing whether increased defense spending could be accommodated within the EU's fiscal rules. It explores the legal options available under the new EU economic governance framework and assesses potential reforms to fiscal regulations. eulawlive.com/op-ed-could-...

📢 75th anniversary @collegeofeurope.bsky.social / 50th anniversary European Law Review conference ⚖️ Theme: The Limits of EU Integration Through Law? The Foundations Revisited 📍 College of Europe, Bruges campus 📅 27-28 March 2025 Programme and registration: www.coleurope.eu/limits-eu-in...

Out now: 'Judicial Bricolage: The Use of Foreign Precedents by Constitutional Judges in the 21st Century' edited by Tania Groppi, Marie-Claire Ponthoreau and Irene Spigno https://buff.ly/41aVXpb #ConstitutionalLaw #ComparativeLaw

Moving here 👋 - long overdue. Tips on how to rebuild and settle into the new home quickly would be most welcome.

The ECB is an endless source of academic commentary - very happy I was part of this multidisciplinary special issue, that covers a truly broad range of perspectives on the ever-growing influence that the ECB has on the lives of everyone living in the EU.

Come work with me in Berlin! The @delorsberlin.bsky.social and the @hertieschool.bsky.social offer a 3-year scholarship for a PhD in European Law & Governance from Sep 2025, supervised by Mark Dawson and me. Application deadline: 16 March 2025. Please spread the word! apply.interfolio.com/162361

New research out with @derminepaul.bsky.social on the legal and institutional position of national central banks in the Eurosystem, published OA with @cogitatiopag.bsky.social: www.cogitatiopress.com/politicsandg... Very grateful to be included among so many excellent authors.

@chrisjmonaghan.bsky.social and I are excited to share the Society of Legal Scholars Public Law Section Call for Papers for the Annual Conference at Leeds, 2-4th September 2024. All details here: mailchi.mp/legalscholar...

Honored to present a copy of our Research Handbook to Mairead McGuinness before her inspiring keynote speech last week! Excited to launch PROSPER @dublincityuni.bsky.social w/ 11 partner Universities More abt the RH: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/res... @elgarpublishing.bsky.social @deli-dcu.bsky.social

Check out our in the Nordic Journal of European Law journals.lub.lu.se/njel/issue/v... 'EU Law in the Era of Digitisation: On Strategic Litigation Causes, Actors and Processes- edited by myself. Fabien Terpan & Rebecca Zahn @clsisel.bsky.social @uaces.bsky.social

REALaw has entered the chat 💬 We look forward to (re)building our administrative law community here on Bluesky too. REALaw is an international peer reviewed journal that addresses all things about European and comparative administrative law ⚖️ www.uitgeverijparis.nl/en/tijdschri...

New article exploring the constitutional inplications of the post-Brexit dispute resolution mechanisms. Really enjoyed working on this with my good friends and colleagues Anastasia Karatzia and Theodore Konstadinides: academic.oup.com/yel/advance-...

In Dublin for the kick-off event of our Jean Monnet Network PROSPER, researching options to strengthen prosperity and economic resilience in the EU. The Erasmus University team will focus on stability, growth, effectiveness and democratic legitimacy in the Economic and Monetary Union.

Getting started on BlueSky with our call for papers for the 2025 EuConst Symposium, which we will host at Luiss University in the beautiful city of Rome on June 24. We welcome abstracts on any theme of European and comparative constitutional law. Application deadline March 3.

🚨🚨 Major opinion by AG Emiliou in the area of EU competence to set minimum wages. AG concludes that EU directive goes beyond the scope of the EU's competences in the area supporting the view of Sweden and Denmark. 🧵

The Call for Applications for the 2025 LPE in Europe Summer Academy is now open💥💥💥 2-4 June, Rotterdam Deadline: 23 February. Accommodation and catering expenses are fully covered, with travel budgets also provided. See more: lpeineurope.org/wp-content/u...

Is this life after Twitter? We have finally joined this space, follow us for activities and events of the Law and Political Economy in Europe project.

In case it's useful, a list of experts from various disciplines specialising in Economic and Monetary Union and the European Banking Union. All welcome, absolutely no gatekeeping go.bsky.app/9WJBfhX

Workshop announcement: for the third year running @uclspp.bsky.social and @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social are teaming up to bring together some of the most exciting early career researchers in Law and Courts, this year also joined by @dnaurin.bsky.social. Apply by 31 March with @icuervo.bsky.social!

🚨🚨 "The damning statistics that reveal the true cost of Brexit, five years on". Great report by Kate Devlin & Alicja Hagopian (@the-independent.com) on the far-reaching negative implications of #brexit for UK economy. 🧵 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

🚨🚨 Breaking: In the context of the ongoing Romanian elections, @ec.europa.eu has issued a ‘retention order' to TikTok under the DSA, ordering the platform to freeze and preserve data related to the systemic risks its service could pose on electoral processes in the EU. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

🇷🇴⚖️Tremendous: the Romanian Constitutional Court, tasked with hearing electoral protests and validating the elections, decides to annul the first round of the presidential election (effectively ordering them to be retaken in entirety at a later date). 1/

Do you lose sleep over the future of the Economic and Monetary Union? Do you know what's wrong with it? Have you any idea how to fix it? Might you have a working paper on the matter? Then we want to hear from you! Submit proposals & come share your ideas for the EUI Schuman Centre EMU Lab!

The Dutch are flouting the new budgetary rules? A thread on yesterday's announcement of the Commission on the Dutch medium-term structural plan (the new rules of the Stability and Growth Pact)

🚨🚨 Inspired by fellow EU nerds, I did a first attempt in creating a starter pack on European law and politics (defined in a broad sense) collecting some of the people I really think you should follow in this area. More names will be added but a bit exhausted by this work. go.bsky.app/E5ByTCJ

Today I will attend - and try to “live BlueSky” - the hearing in Case C-769/22 (Commission v Hungary - values of the Union) Below is what I will be looking out for @hertieschool.bsky.social @verfassungsblog.de @profpech.bsky.social @kimlanelaw.bsky.social @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social 1/x

The essential starter pack

This morning's Shell ruling in English: uitspraken.rechtspraak.nl/details?id=E...