Tag: Spain
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Javier García Oliva: Catalonia in Spain: The Significance of the 25th September 2015 Elections
Editors’ note: This post is based upon a conference paper presented at the UKCLA conference ‘Debating the Constitution after the General Election’ held at the University of Manchester on 24 June 2015. Parliamentary elections will be held in Catalonia on 25th September 2015, over a year earlier than the scheduled date. This decision was made…
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Javier García Oliva: Catalonia in Spain? The future ahead
After the result of the Scottish Referendum on 18th September 2014, an analysis of pro-independence movements within other members of the European Union could not be more timely. Catalonia is a particularly pressing case, as it has witnessed in the course of the last few months, bitter debates about its future position within the Spanish…
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Dorota Leczykiewicz: Melloni and the future of constitutional conflict in the EU
Constitutional conflict is a leitmotif of the relationship between EU law and national law. Courts of EU Member States are under a dual obligation of loyalty. On the one hand, they need to apply and respect their own laws, but on the other, they also need to ensure effectiveness of norms of the EU legal…