Every now and then, in some corner of the world, a legal news item linked to pro-secession lawsuits pops up. On this occasion, a UK Supreme Court decision made on 23 November 2022, has once again put the spotlight on the Scottish independence movement. Some lessons from the UK could be useful for Spain and, above all, shed light on some constitutional complexes.

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New Independence Referendum in Scotland? Is the United Kingdom moving closer to continental Europe?

Over the past two years, the world has been faced with a crisis of an unprecedented magnitude: the coronavirus pandemic.

Nurse in a Moscow hospital

Should there be a push for more integration in EU health policy?

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and the threat of realism in Europe

Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is facing its most serious political crisis since the end of the war in 1995. Due to failed electoral reform negotiations, there is a potential threat that Croat parties might boycott state institutions and block the budget from being passed. This would prevent the 2022 general elections from taking place in October. Amidst the threat of secession by the main Serb parties, this political crisis could lead toward complete institutional erosion and effective dissolution of the state, which has been propped up by international actors for the last 26 years.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Streamlining a tangled web: Towards a truly democratic Bosnia and Herzegovina

“Kyiv is under siege and so is democracy!“ Ukraine as a new EU member? The return of politics to EU integration

European integration, territorial and cross-border cooperation are the main topics of a series of webinars and a scientific conference organized by the EGTC/Euregio Tyrol-South Tyrol-Trentino, the Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino, Eurac Research (Institute for Comparative Federalism and Center for Autonomy Experience) and the University of Innsbruck, within the framework of the 50th anniversary of the second Autonomy Statute of the Trentino-South Tyrol region.

Elisa Bertò, Reykjavik 2019

European integration: Cross-border policies of three territories

I found the Swiss federal spirit! It is in Swiss Cinquième Ligue of football

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Discovering subnational paths to climate change integration: an Austrian way

This two-episode blog article was born for two reasons. The first is that I have had several discussions with colleagues and professors about my own region, and I have often noticed puzzled reactions when I describe how Aosta Valley actually is from my insider point of view. The second is that, when I set out to study the legal and political literature on Aosta Valley, I understood those questioning stares. 

The first episode provides a picture of Aosta Valley’s linguistic context by focusing on legal provisions and actual practice.

Aosta Valley

Languages in Aosta Valley – An initial less conventional picture from the inside

On Germany’s federal elections, 26 September 2021

Stability "über alles" or (cautious) change?

During my studies in Bologna, Italy this school year, Covid-19 was an inescapable presence and topic of conversation. Depending on case levels, we were in and out of lockdowns, as in much of Europe. When vaccines started getting approved and the rollout slowly began, we watched with envy as our friends in the United States started getting vaccinated and returning to a semi-normal life as our weeks in the *zona rossa* stretched on. 

Covid 19 business closure in Seattle Washington

Political communication and vaccination rates: Covid-19 insights from the US

The Fundamental Rights of the EU on the 20th anniversary of the Charter

Countries choose different paths when reckoning with painful and contested histories. Spain is currently at an inflection point that could change how it handles the legacy of its still divisive past with the proposed Democratic Memory Act. 

Sagrada Família, Barcelona, Spain

The Democratic Memory Act: Spain tackles its past once again

(No) Més que football

The necessary reform of local administration in Spain

The 20th of all EU-r rights: equality and how the Charter contributes

An attentive follower of French politics might have noticed that a presumed dead subject has recently re-emerged at the forefront of political debate in France, almost provoking an internal scandal in the governing party of president Macron: the teaching of regional languages.  

The equality-plurality paradox in language matters and how France and Italy deal with it

Chronicling Hungary and Poland’s crises

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