The Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union was proclaimed on 7 December 2000 and subsequently entered into force with the Treaty of Lisbon in December 2009. It contains 50 legally binding articles related to political, social, and economic rights and it applies to the institutions, bodies, offices and agencies of the Union and […]
Issue no 6 of 2015 of the German Law Journal is dedicated to Preliminary Reference to the Court of Justice of The European Union by Constitutional Courts. The Constitutional Courts of Austria, Italy, France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania and their preliminary references are covered. The dynamic with the Strasbourg Court is […]
The European Commission has issued a Report on Access to Law (2015/C 97/03 of 24.3.2015). This report gives an extensive description of tools and platforms that have been developed to facilitate and extend access to law for citizens, at Member State and EU level. The central database for EU law is EUR-Lex. The report discusses translations, EU […]
EUR-Lex developments include a New Method of EU Legal Acts’ Numbering, the redesign of the EUR-Lex Advanced Search and the merge of PreLex by EUR-Lex.
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The European Court of Justice declared in its Judgment in Case C-333/13 of Elisabeta Dano, Florin Dano v Jobcenter Leipzig on 11 November 2014 that a German Court can ban unemployment benefits of a Romanian immigrant who did not seek employment in Germany. Claims were filed by Elisabeta Dano, a Romanian woman, who gave birth during […]
The EUR-Lex database of EU law is to be upgraded on Monday 24 March and the address of the beta EUR-Lex website will switch to eur-lex.europa.eu. You may need to update your bookmarks.
