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• Effective judicial protection, Judicial Review, National/European law

  Relations between the Supreme Administrative Court and the Judicial Power: A Polish Perspective, by Jan Olszanowski

  Published on

  20 Mar 2026

  4–6 minutes

  

  Introduction Published in Beyond adjudication – Exploring the Multifaceted Role of Supreme Administrative Courts (Edward Elgar 2026), my book chapter explores the position of the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) within the Polish system of judicial power and it examines how administrative justice interacts with the ordinary judiciary. While administrative courts…

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• Conditionality

  Piercing the Shield of the Second-Order Administration: Admissibility and (Rule of Law) Conditionality in Medel and Others v Council, by Johannes Müller

  Published on

  13 Mar 2026

  10–16 minutes

  

  Who can challenge the conditions attached to EU funding? This is the core question the European Court of Justice will decide in the pending Case C-555/24 P, Medel and Others v Council. In this appeal, several associations of European judges are challenging an order of the General Court’s Grand Chamber…

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• Access to justice, National/European law

  Administrative jurisdiction in France, by Bruno Bachini

  Published on

  27 Feb 2026

  5–7 minutes

  

  A jurisdictional dualism strongly anchored in the political and institutional history of the country The strict separation between the two orders of judicial and administrative jurisdiction in France is the legacy of a long historical tradition. This fundamental choice was reaffirmed during the French Revolution with the law of 16…

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• EU Law, Public-private partnership

  Public-private partnerships: the need for a cooperative spirit translated into legal terms, by Kris Wauters

  Published on

  20 Feb 2026

  8–11 minutes

  

  In a forthcoming book Partenariat public-privé : esprit de cooperation (Larcier, based on the PhD I defended at the University of Lausanne in 2025), I argue that public private partnerships (PPP) often produce negative results from a legal perspective. As the PPP phenomenon was introduced in the Anglo-Saxon world in…

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• EU Agencies Corner

  More Data, Less Openness? EU Scientific Agencies & the Transparency Implications of the Common Data Platform on Chemicals, by Matthias Hasler

  Published on

  13 Feb 2026

  10–15 minutes

  

  Introduction On 1 January 2026 the long-awaited ‘one substance, one assessment’ (‘OSOA’) legislative package entered into force. It consists of three legislative acts: Regulation (EU) 2025/2457 and Directive (EU) 2025/2456 regarding the relocation of tasks and improving cooperation among Union agencies in the area of chemicals (‘Relocation Measures’), and Regulation…

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