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Implementation Jurisprudence Research

Top Secret Intelligence in Europe: A Tipping Point in Luxembourg?

Kadi is back in Luxembourg and with a vengeance! The timing is interesting both for the case itself and more generally for highlighting the use of secret intelligence and evidence to justify detention and other sanctions, Deirdre Curtin argues.

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Legal reform Research

A Watershed in the History of European Integration

In the 1980s, Irish Foreign Minister Dooge chaired a technical EU committee that proved instrumental in the move towards the Single European Act and eventually, the European Union.

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Research

Transatlantic Conference on Transparency Research a huge success

On 8 and 9 June the Transatlantic Conference on Transparency Research (TCTR) was held in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

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Research

Erna Scholtes defends PhD thesis on Dutch political understanding of transparency

Last Monday, Erna Scholtes defended a thesis on the emerging understanding of the idea of transparency over the past decades.