Following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU has acquired new competences in a number of policy fields such as international investment policy and tourism policy. The European ...

What is meant by the EU's exclusive competence? The new Constitution confers on the European Union exclusive competence in specific areas. This means that in these specific areas, only the EU may ...

The German understanding of EU competences however has always been part of a wider EU reform agenda. While the UK government of has been trying to demonstrate since the prime minister’s speech in ...

It is no surprise to find the CJEU re-asserting a more aggressive approach to armonisation and the division of competences, writes Paul Stanley QC How EU law divides up the power of the union and the ...

On Thursday 23 and Friday 24 May, the Convention on the future of Europe will meet for the fourth time in Brussels, to discuss how the EU should carry out its mission, from the perspective of ...

The European Socialists claim that the EU should consider setting up of a common defence policy incorporated in the Treaties in order to be up to the challenge of the present international crisis and ...