ZEuS Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien

The Russian attack on Ukraine has (once again) brought the contrast between a rules-based international order and power politics into focus as the fundamental conflict of the 21st century. The proponents of power politics are guided by Carl...

The doctrine of proportionality as it evolved in precedent and jurisprudence is based on the idea of the Rechtstaat or constitutional state based on the rule of law and human rights as foundational principles of the Basic Law (as the German...

The divide between human rights and their implementation seems wider than ever – on the one hand, state responsibility is increasingly being codified into law, most recently in the field of environmental policy, while on the other hand, human...

An enlargement of the European Union (EU) is back on the European agenda. But without a reform of the EU it may lead to an „overstretch“ and therefore to disintegration. Nonetheless, tackling the ongoing European ‘polycrisis’ by adequate...

Although the term “standards” may sometimes lead to misunderstandings, technical standards (norms) are very different from legal standards (norms), both institutionally and on the substance. Institutionally, there are two independent...

The paper offers some critical thoughts on the overextension of law as an instru-ment to resolve what are, in essence, political questions and controversies. Against a backdrop of the erosion of institutional trust, populism, and the legitimacy of...

This critique of human rights tries to assess challenges which may impede human rights to achieve their aims. Human rights are, in this context, international rights binding on States by international law. The challenges come from outside,...

Under the principle of subsidiarity in Article 5(3) TEU, the European Union shall only act if and in so far as the objectives of the proposed action can be sufficiently achieved by the Member States (negative criterion). Furthermore, it is necessary...

The profileration of platform-based business models within cross-marktet digital ecosystems represents a profound challenge to the principles of the social market economy. Major digital cooperations such as Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Booking, or...