ZEuS Zeitschrift für Europarechtliche Studien

Over six years after the UK voted to leave the EU (‘Brexit’) the terms of the Irish/Northern Irish Protocol, centrepiece of the Brexit withdrawal arrangements, are back on the agenda. The present controversy surrounds the Northern Ireland...

The EU can freeze Russian State and private assets as sanctions. This is justified as “countermeasure” to exert pressure upon Russia that it ends its criminal war of aggression. However, sanctions do not cover definitive measures; freezing...

Can the history of European integration be told on the basis of the textual development of the preambles to the European treaties? This is the fundamental question of this text which looks at European integration through the eyes of its treaties’...

In March 2021, the CJEU confirmed the dismissal of the People’s Climate Case issued by the General Court on the grounds that the private applicants lacked locus standi, relying on the so-called Plaumann-formula – case law from 1963 – to...

The article discusses the participation of the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union (the High Representative) and that of the European External Action Service (EEAS) in proceedings before the Court of...

The European Union has multiplied the number of its members since its founding. Although it faces numerous challenges, accession seems to continue to offer great incentives. Here, for example, the participation in the internal market, regional...

This paper attempts to give an overview of core elements of the Australian Security Architecture. The focus lies on new developments in the collaboration with the United States and the United Kingdom around the procurement of nuclear propulsion...

In the cases T-883/16 und C-848/19 P, the EU Courts have for the first time explicitly classified the solidarity between Member States enshrined in Article 194 (1) TFEU as a justiciable primary law standard of legality in the area of EU energy...