Steve Peers, Professor of
Law, Royal Holloway University of London*
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*Thanks to Justin Borg-Barthet
for corsair quote
**This blog post builds on research
for the upcoming third edition of The
EU Citizenship Directive: A Commentary, by Elspeth Guild, Steve Peers
and Jonathan Tomkin (OUP,…
Helga Luku, PhD
researcher, University of Antwerp
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On the 3rd of April 2025,
Advocate General (AG) Richard de la Tour delivered his Opinion
in C-713/23, Wojewoda Mazowiecki, concerning the recognition and
entry in a civil register of a foreign certificate of marriage between persons…
Steve Peers, Professor of Law, Royal Holloway University
of London
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The EU’s asylum pact was adopted less
a year ago, and mostly won’t apply for over another year – and yet the EU Commission
has already proposed
to amend it, in order to bring…
*Antje Kunst is
an international lawyer and barrister of Garden Court North Chambers, admitted
to the Bar of England and Wales, and the Bar of Berlin, advising and
representing individuals in a wide range of matters related to fundamental
rights within the CFSP and other fields. She has appeared in numerous cases…
Attila Szabó, LLM in European law, Head of Legal Aid Service, Hungarian Civil
Liberties Union
The author would
like to thank Steve Peers and Máté Szabó, HCLU’s professional director, for
their ideas for the text!
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On 5 April, Renáta Uitz
published a…
Dr. Izabella Majcher, Independent
ConsultantPhoto credit: Alamy Stock Photo On 11 March 2025, the European Commission published a proposal
for a Return Regulation to replace the 2008 Return
Directive. This new proposal also supersedes the Commission
2018 proposal to recast the Directive (discussed here
and here).
Negotiations on the 2018 recast…
Professor
Steve Peers, Royal Holloway
University of London
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How and why can short-term visa requirements be re-imposed,
on a fast track basis? For the EU, this issue is decided collectively, on the
basis of legislation that applies to all EU Member States (except Ireland),
plus…
Dr Joy A. Debski, Lecturer in Law, School of Law and Social Sciences, Robert
Gordon University
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Synoptic Data Inquiry and
Understanding the Directive
Although women
constitute about 51% of overall population in the EU, statistics
show a rather concerning reality that despite accounting…
