1. A Principle Born from Crisis Among the novelties of the European Union (EU)’s pandemic response, the “Do No Significant Harm” (DNSH) principle stands out as a novel form of environmental conditionality in the EU…
Cooperation is an essential tool to answer the several challenges presented in the field of the environment. As environmental problems ignore political boundaries, they can be adequately addressed only through cooperation between states. For this…
In December 2024, ombudspersons from Central Eastern Europe gathered at a conference in Budapest and adopted the Budapest Declaration on the Role of Ombuds Institutions in Protecting the Needs of Future Generations, which represents a…
Introduction The principle of prevention, which aims at preventing the occurrence of environmental harm (rather than at remedying it), is a cornerstone of international and European environmental law. Despite being rooted in both systems, the…
Introduction In a contribution to the recently published volume on The Legal Effects of EU Soft Law, edited by Petra Lea Láncos, Napoleon Xanthoulis, and Luis Arroyo Jiménez, which explores new theoretical and empirical angles…