Elettra Bargellini (DCU Ph.D. student, School of Law & Government) and Ian Cooper (DCU Brexit Institute) On Thursday, September 14, 2023, the first event of the academic year took place,…
John O’Brennan (Maynooth University) After many years of stagnation, the EU enlargement process has experienced a significant revival in 2023. As a result, the October European Council summit meeting in…
Andrew Duff (European Policy Centre) “We have seen the birth of a geopolitical Union”, she said. Ursula von der Leyen’s claim at the start of her annual State of the…
Cleo Davies (University of Warwick) On 7 September 2023, the European Commission and the UK Prime Minister announced that the UK would be associated to Horizon Europe. It becomes the seventeenth…
Valeriana Forlenza (University of Pisa)* On June 14, 2023 the European Parliament adopted its version of the draft Artificial Intelligence Act («AI Act»). While the final approval is expected by…
Janine Silga (Dublin City University) At its meeting on 8-9 June 2023, the Justice and Home Affairs Council defined its ‘general approach’ on two future key instruments of the Common…
Pier Mario Lupinu (University of Luxembourg–Roma Tre University) The European Union (EU) legislators announced on 27 June 2023 that the Council (under the Swedish Presidency) and the European Parliament reached…
Christy Ann Petit (DCU Brexit Institute) The much awaited Single Currency Package was finally published by the European Commission on 28 June 2023, giving the legal grounds and foundations for…
Federico Fabbrini (Full Professor of EU Law, DCU; Founding Director, Brexit Institute) The summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 11 and 12 July 2023…
Niels Kirst (Assistant Professor of European Law, DCU) “Regrettably, concerns remain in several Member States. More work needs to be done to improve the independence of judiciary, impartiality of public…