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Hilde Hardeman, head of @EULawDataPubs has co-launched the anniversary book ’70 years of EU law: A union for its citizens’ together with Daniel Calleja Crespo, head of the @EU_Commission's Legal Service and senior lawyers from @EUCourtPress and Luxembourg's judiciary.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359943871983616
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For 70 years, #EULaw has been the driving force behind Europe's integration from an economic union to a union for its citizens, including EU citizenship. This almost 400-page work tells the story about it in the making, step by step. #GoodRead
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359948699668482
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Made to celebrate 70 years of #EULaw, the book’s aim, said Daniel Calleja Crespo, is ‘to inform citizens of their rights under Union law, regardless of their age and occupation, and to introduce them to this law and its achievements since its creation.’
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359952797503505
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The book looks, in 5 parts, at what the EU means for us in terms of (1) fundamental values, (2) rights, (3) improvements to our lives, (4) fair market competition and (5) the @EU_Commission’s central role in #EULaw. It closes with a look into the possible future of EU law.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359957386072080
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📃Van Gend en Loos. 📃Costa v E.N.E.L. 📃Defrenne v SABENA ... and many other trailblazing cases are explained. The book also shows what life was like without EU law, very different to now.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359961571946497
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Allan Rosas, former member of the Court of the Justice of the EU and former deputy head of the @EU_Commission’s Legal Service highlighted the dynamic evolution of case law which has interpreted #EULaw and conferred rights for citizenship, social security, travel and more.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359966152167431
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Francis Delaporte, President of the Administrative Court of Luxembourg & Vice-President of the Constitutional Court of Luxembourg, spoke about Luxembourg’s easy acceptance of EU law as the country has been accustomed in history to the supremacy of international law.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359974645633037
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@HardemanHildeML, head of @EULawDataPubs, highlighted her Office’s role in making law accessible and understandable through the @EURLex website, the ‘Summaries of EU legislation’, the new ‘EU Law in Force’ website and through the Digital European Legal Space.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359978852519941
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With the Digital European Legal Space, which @EULawDataPubs has been tasked to implement, we want to help turn EU law into reality, and to help all in society understand and reap the benefits of it in every aspect of their lives, says @hardemanhildeml.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359982988152835
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Aimed at a wide audience, lawyers & the curious, this story of EU law over 70 years is of great importance today & for the future. It needs to be understood, remembered & shared.
Download or order: https://europa.eu/!hCNTTR
See @UE_Luxembourg's zoom: https://europa.eu/!bCddMv
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359987039801352
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The speakers also addressed challenges.
Maciej Szpunar, First Advocate-General of @EUCourtPress, said that despite progress on fundamental rights challenges remain, such as those related to the digital revolution and the preservation of the #RuleOfLaw.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EULawDataPubs/status/1623359970484924416