Complaints about the lack of cohesion in the EU’s digital acquis long predate the Digital Omnibus itself. In less than a decade, the EU built a dense stack of overlapping regimes, creating a complex regulatory…
European integration has brought about a multifaceted transformation of administrative law. One of its major aspects is the development of what is referred to as “European administrative law”, which is traditionally understood, in a narrow…
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…
On 25 June 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) delivered its landmark judgment on the Taranto former Ilva steelworks (located in Southern Italy). In case C-626/22, the Grand Chamber strengthened the…
Harmonised rules, decentralised authorities EU law frequently relies on harmonised rules that are applied by decentralised national authorities. Value Added Tax (VAT) provides a clear example of this phenomenon. The relevant legal framework here is…