European Coal and Steel Community

1. Which theoretical account best explains the role of the European Court of Justice? The European Court of Justice (ECJ), first created by the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 is situated in Luxembourg. The court’s main objectives were the interpretation and the consistent and uniform application of the treaty across all Member States. With the exception of the Maastricht Treaty (1992) the ECJ has gained influence through the different treaties over time. The ECJ unlike any other international

“The Court of Justice of the European Union and the General Court are the judicial arms of the EU”. Critically analyse with reference to the function, personnel and procedures of these two EU courts. Since the UK joined the EU in 1973 under Edward Heath the UK legal system has been inferior to the EU legal system. The EU’s main judicial arms are the Court of the Justice of the European Union (CJEU) which was established under the European Coal and Steel Community Treaty (1951) and the General Court

An Analysis of the Powers of the European Parliament History of the European Parliament: On the 18th April 1951 the Ministers representing France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg signed in Paris a treaty which established the European Coal and Steel Community, the ECSC was born. The most important feature of the ECSC was its supranational character, it was a supranational organization. It was aptly described as a 'quasi federation in an important economic

The Constitutionalisation of the Treaties by the European Court of Justice Introduction ============ On it's formation in 1957 the European Economic Community Treaty[1] was seemingly another international treaty to which the six original Member States[2] had signed. In the realm of international law such treaties are binding merely on the governments of Member States which have signed them. In it's essential provisions, the Treaty made reference only to the

The European Union (EU) is an economical and political union of nations, established in 1993, The predecessor to the European Union was the European Economic Community (EEC), which was formed soon after the second world war by the six countries: France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. Its initial rationale was that the previous two European wars had been due to economic competition between nations, and then this thus 'caused overly aggressive fear of the territorial aspirations

the Soviet Union’s implosion in 1991, there has been an increased sense of nationalism throughout the world; no other entity exemplifies this more so than the European Union. Since the end of the Second World War, there has been a continued effort to create a more interdependent and united Europe. Starting out as the European Economic Community in 1958, then revitalizing the

On September 6, Belgium officially submitted its request to the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) for an opinion about the compatibility of the Investment Court System (“ICS”) with EU law. This request - result of a Belgian internal political compromise intended to lift Wallonia's veto on the conclusion of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) – seeks clarification and asks the CJEU to shed light on the reformed system of dispute settlement between States and

how to transpose directives into national laws. A directive is a legal act of the European Union, which requires member states to achieve a particular result without dictating the means of achieving that result. It can be distinguished from regulations which are self-executing and do not require any implementing measures. 1.5.1 Primary Legislation: Treaties of the European Union The first sources of Community law are the three Treaties (ECSC, EURATOM and EEC) with the various annexes and protocols

In contrast, the Republic of Hungary contributed only € 0.946 billion to the EU budget in 2015. The stark contrast between the two amounts indicates the drastic extent to which the Republic of Hungary benefits from its membership in the European Union. To continue with this analysis of the Republic of Hungary’s compatibility with the EU, the uncertain or rather incompatible characteristics between them must also be discussed. Many of the concerns that stratify Hungary from the EU in modern

A view of the Greek Orthodox Church Greece is the only Orthodox country that became a member-state of the European Union, while its history manifests a strong engagement with West European culture and politics. By offering evidence of the manner in which Orthodoxy is shaping the domains of culture, society, ethnicity and politics, our goal is to allow scholars and researchers to use the Greek experience as a means for fleshing out some of the institutional characteristics and cultural attributes