AEA – EAL

Dear Friends,
Year 2020 is about to end. Twelve months different than any other ones, faced by our generation, marked with the Covid-19 pandemic and affecting our professional and private life in all aspects. Also, activity of the AEA-EAL has changed with moving our...

On 11 December 2020 the AEA-EAL acted, together with the World Trade Institute in Berne and the Swiss law firm Prager Dreifuss Ltd, as a co-organiser of a webinar about financial services. The AEA-EAL and the other two organisers have, in the last two...

Advocate General Hogan : EU Law does not preclude national constitutional provisions under which the executive power or one of its members, such as the Prime Minister, plays a role in the process of the appointment of members of the judiciary.
However, Article 19(1) TEU, read in the light of the right to a fair and effective trial under the Charter, is applicable when a national court is assessing the validity of a procedure for the appointment of judges such as that provided for by the Maltese...

Advocate General Tanchev: Polish law introduced in order to exclude the possibility for legal review of the National Council of the Judiciary’s assessment of judicial candidates to the Supreme Court violates EU law.
The second subparagraph of Article 19(1) TEU can be applied directly by the referring court in order to disapply those national provisions and to declare itself competent to rule on the cases in the legal framework which was applicable before the adoption...