scholarly journals La nueva reivindicación de la secesión de Cataluña en el contexto normativo de la Constitución española de 1978 y el Tratado de Lisboa = The last demand of secession in Catalonia under Spanish Constitution 1978 and Lisbon Treaty

2013 ◽  
pp. 89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Ruipérez Alamillo
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Spanish Constitution ◽  
Constitutional State ◽  
Internal Problem ◽  
Set Up

El presente escrito aborda el problema político y jurídico que representan para el Estado las propuestas independentistas del nacionalismo catalán. Nuestra tesis es, partiendo de la compatibilidad absoluta del Derecho Internacional y del Derecho Constitucional, que la respuesta a si una entidad territorial puede decidir unilateralmente independizarse del Estado es, en un Estado Constitucional democrático, necesariamente negativa. En concreto, mantenemos que cuando no es posible apelar al Derecho Internacional Humanitario, el problema de la secesión es un problema puramente interno de un Estado que, por lo tanto, no es en el Derecho de la Unión Europea, sino en el Derecho Constitucional español, y la Teoría democrática del Pouvoir Constituant, donde habrá de buscarse la solución al problema que plantea el nacionalismo catalán.The present document studies the political and juridical problem that the independence proposals of the catalonian nationalism represents for the Spanish State. Our thesis, beginning with de absolute compatibility between International Law and Constitutional Law, is that the answer to the question if a territorial entity can decide by itself to become independent, in a democratic Constitutional State, is necessarily negative. To sum up, we maintain that when it is not possible to appeal to the Humanitarian International Law, the seccesion is a merely internal problem of a State and, so that, it is not in the European Union Law, but in the Spanish Constitutional Law, and the democratic Theory of the Pouvoir Constituant, where you must look for a solution to the problem set up by the catalonian nationalism.

scholarly journals Los procesos secesionistas y el derecho europeo

2016 ◽  
pp. 347
Author(s):  
Javier Tajadura Tejada
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Member State ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
European Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Citizenship ◽  
Regional Authorities

Este artículo analiza en primer lugar el significado de la secesión en el Derecho Internacional y en el Derecho Constitucional. Asimismo, examina cómo se aborda el fenómeno de la secesión en el Derecho comunitario europeo. Esto obliga a estudiar dos tipos de problemas: por un lado, el de la secesión de un Estado miembro respecto de la propia Unión; por otro, el de la fragmentación de un Estado miembro por la secesión de una parte de su territorio. La conclusión es que la conservación o fragmentación de un Estado miembro de la Unión Europea no es un asunto interno: la secesión de partes de un territorio afecta al sistema político europeo en su conjunto, en la medida en que es una forma de integración federal donde no caben actos unilaterales que quebranten el principio de lealtad federal de la Unión y la ciudadanía europea que ha ido conformándose en las últimas décadas.This article analyzes the meaning of secession in international and constitutional law. It also examines the phenomenon of secession in European law. This requires studying two types of problems: the secession of a member state of the European Union and the fragmentation of a Member State for the secession of part of its territory. The conclusion is that conservation or fragmentation of a Member State of the European Union is not an internal matter. In our opinión, the political and legal system of the Union can be characterized also federally, which prevents the national and regional authorities to carry out unilateral acts that go against the principle of Community federal loyalty and European citizenship.

Operation Sophia in Uncharted Waters: European and International Law Challenges for the eu Naval Mission in the Mediterranean Sea

2016 ◽  
Vol 85 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Butler ◽  
Martin Ratcovich
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Refugee Law ◽  
Legal Challenges ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
International Refugee Law

This article addresses the main legal challenges facing the European Union (eu) Naval Force, eunavfor Med (‘Operation Sophia’), established in 2015, to disrupt human smuggling and trafficking activities in the Mediterranean Sea. It examines a number of legal issues that have given rise to scepticism on the viability of this type of operation, ranging from challenges under European Union law regarding mandate and oversight, to complex questions of compliance with international law. Forcible measures may be at variance with the international law of the sea, binding on the eu and its Member States alike. Even if such strictures can be avoided by a broad United Nations mandate and/or the consent of the neighbouring government(s), international refugee law and international human rights law provide limitations on the measures that Operation Sophia will be tasked with. Different avenues will be explored to ensure the Operation’s compliance with these different legal regimes.

Analysis of international law on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles through the prism of European Union law

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 73-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateusz Gregorski
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Current Status ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Consultation Process ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
International Legal System

The paper covers the topic of unmanned aerial vehicles in European and international law. Proposed changes and planned new regulations are also included in the overview. After introducing the basic terminology, the article tackles the problem of international responsibility and legal collision. Further analysis presents the division of legal competencies connected with unmanned aviation in the international legal system. In this context the current status of the EASA consultation process has also been presented. The aim of this process is to deliver new regulations for unmanned aerial vehicles in the European Union. The article summarizes the current legal status of unmanned aviation, including also ongoing legislation processes.

La inadecuacion del canon de acceso a las infraestructuras ferroviarias al derecho de la Union Europea

2020 ◽  
pp. 301
Author(s):  
Gerard Blanchar Roca
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Regulatory Body ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Price Model ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Modern Conception ◽  
Railway Infrastructure ◽  
The Law ◽  
Set Up

Los cánones ferroviarios, configurados actualmente como tasas, no se ajustan a las previsiones del Derecho de la Unión Europea, que exigen que el administrador de infraestructuras ferroviarias tome las decisiones sobre la fijación de los precios a pagar por el acceso a las mismas y que estas decisiones puedan ser revisadas por un organismo regulador independiente. Se trata, además, de un modelo que no se adapta a una moderna concepción de las infraestructuras de transporte como empresas que realizan una actividad económica. La alternativa de un modelo de precios regulados o de un modelo de prestaciones patrimoniales públicas no tributarias permitiría dotar de más protagonismo al administrador de infraestructuras ferroviarias y al organismo regulador independiente, en consonancia con el Derecho de la Unión Europea.The railway charges, currently set up as fees, do not comply with the provisions of European Union law, which require the railway infrastructure administrator to take decisions on setting the prices to pay for the access to them and that an independent regulatory body reviews these decisions. It is also a model that does not adapt to a modern conception of transport infrastructures as companies that carry out an economic activity. The alternative of a regulated price model or a model of non-taxable public wealth benefits, would make it possible to give more prominence to the railway infrastructure administrator and the independent regulatory body, in line with the Law of the European Union.

1. Constitutional History

2021 ◽  
pp. 3-40
Author(s):  
Robert Schütze
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
The Self ◽  
Real Problem ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Constitutional History ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
European Constitution

This introductory chapter assesses whether there is a European constitution. When examined in the light of the broader historical tradition, the European Union has a constitution. And this view firmly corresponds to the self-understanding of the European legal order. The ‘real’ problem of the European Union is not whether there is a European constitution, but rather that there is ‘too much constitutional law’; the European Treaties alone contain 413 articles. Length is unfortunately not the only problem of the European constitution, for unlike more mature legal orders, the European constitutional order still struggles with its ‘vocabulary’. The semantic confusions are partly the result of the constant legal revolutions within the European Union. This book then aims to reflect the judicial and legislative practice of the Union as at October 31, 2020. It provides a guide through the most important theories and realities of the European Union law.

Two Legal Orders: Divergent or Convergent?

1999 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Denza
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
International Law ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Public International Law ◽  
European Court ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Ec Law ◽  
Treaty Of Amsterdam

The conclusion of the Treaty of Amsterdam and its progress through the ratification procedures of the 15 member States of the European Union provides an occasion to re-examine a familiar question. What is meant by the claim by the European Court of Justice that the European Com-munity Treaties have created “a new legal order of international law”1 or, more radically, “a new legal order”?2 Is EC law to be regarded as a particularly effective system of regional international law, or has it been created as, or mutated into, an entirely new species of law? If there are indeed two legal orders, to what extent are they still capable of cross-fertilisation? What about “European Union law”? Have the Treaty on European Union and now the Treaty of Amsterdam eroded the dichotomy between the two legal orders of public international law and EU law? Is public international law itself taking on some of the characteristics which have made EC law an attractive as well as an effective system for regulating relations between sovereign States? Are the two streams converging?

scholarly journals КЉУЧНЕ УСТАВНЕ ПРЕПРЕКЕ ЧЛАНСТВУ СРБИЈЕ У ЕВРОПСКОЈ УНИЈИ

TEME ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 935
Author(s):  
Vladimir Džamić ◽  
Žaklina Spalević
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Political System ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Democratic Consolidation ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
Consolidation Process ◽  
Parliamentary System ◽  
Judicial Authority

In this paper, the authors deal with the analysis of the essential obstacles to the accession of Serbia to the European Union and to the successful finalization of the accession negotiations, in terms of the existing constitutional and legal framework. Unlike other studies in this field, the authors analyse the formal and material obstacles that relate not solely to the technical amendments to the Constitution, such as inserting the integrative clause or adopting the European Union Law, but to the changes that they consider essential, such as the redefining of the political system and, consequently, the successful finalization of the democratic consolidation process in Serbia. The authors analyse the relation between the constitutional revision and the negotiation Chapter 35, which deals with the negotiations between Belgrade and Priština within the Brussels Agreement. In a separate chapter, the authors analyse the specific possibilities for the improvement of the political system in Serbia, through the strengthening of the free parliamentary mandate and the strengthening of the parliamentary system, but also through the change in the manner of electing judges and prosecutors, as well as through the strengthening of the independence of the judicial authority.

scholarly journals Preobražaji ustavnog prava na početku dvadeset prvog veka

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Bertrand Gicquel
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Constitutional Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Constitutional Courts ◽  
Majoritarian Democracy ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Subject

The text analyzes the transformations of constitutional law as a university subject and legal field in France and Europe. It begins with the Enlightenment in the second half of the eighteenth century. However, the evolution of the subject was rather checkered: due to its political nature, constitutional law was abolished and reinstated, depending on the political climate. There was neither a linear development nor consistant content as a university subject. It was first studied as institutional law, but then fell under the auspices of political science, only to be positivized after the establishment of constitutional courts. The term constitution also underwent transformation, no longer confined to merely organizing governance, but ordering all of society. While the field of application of the constitution expanded, it was undermined by strengthening individualism and communitarism. Predicaments also arose regarding the possibility of existence of a constitution without or outside the state, specifically in the context of the European Union. Finally, the text notes that the ideological use of the term democracy obscures the fact that majoritarian democracy might possibly be obsolete, and that other forms of legitimacy are gaining in significance.

The Common Agricultural Policy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A McMahon
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
The Political ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Union Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
Broad Framework

‘While the Common Agricultural Policy may be well known for the political and financial problems to which it gives rise, the legal issues underlying it have not been so widely discussed’. Usher went on to note that the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) lay behind many institutional developments, that agriculture was the first single market, and it was in the context of agricultural disputes that the Court of Justice of the European Union developed many of the general principles of Community (now European Union) law. So, whilst many will be familiar with the broad contribution that the CAP has made over the last sixty years, there are few who are more familiar with the legal intricacies of the policy. Part of the reason for this may be that close engagement with the administration of the CAP is not an easy exercise. Whilst the European institutions are responsible for setting not only the broad framework of the policy but also, in certain cases, the details of various aspects of the policy, implementation has been devolved to the Member States.

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