European Union

The European Investigation Order into Criminal Matters Collecting evidence is at the core of any criminal proceeding. It enables policing authorities to identify potential offenders, helping to demonstrate a perpetrators guilt or innocence. National borders are not a consideration when criminal activity occurs. Criminal cross-border activity investigation requires cooperation between prosecutors, judges and the European Union across the borders. Transnational criminal activity is on the…

A Wave of Syrian Immigrants As the Islamic militants dominate Syria, millions of people are making their way into Europe in a search for a better life. For the past few years, European countries, primarily, countries in the European Union (EU), have been coming up with ways to handle the financial, and economic pressure posed by these refugees. The president and CEO of the EU are satisfied by their effort towards resolving the crisis. However, some countries find it difficult to abide by the…

obligations and restrictions of EU law will be incorporated into UK law; one of these powers are present in the ruling of Costa v. ENEL in which every court can enforce EU law regardless of the local state not allowing it. The supremacy of the European Community law is supported by the judgement in the Factortame case, “ Where a national court that the ‘sole obstacle which precludes it from granting interim relief is a rule of national law’, then the court ‘must set aside that rule’”; at an…

The increase in migration rates is due to three events that have taken place over the course of the past twenty years. The first one being the expansion of the European Union in 2004. Through the expansion they included ten small post-communist countries that were very poor, and when they officially became a part of the E.U. many citizens that lived there left to go find better job opportunities in countries such as…

within the globe to come into a trade agreement with other nations. It is an open organization that allows governments to settle trade disputes amongst themselves. Currently, it has 153 countries affiliated to it. European Union (EU) is a regional economic group that involves European nations who engage in trade amongst member countries. The Euro is one of the binding factors apart from being the reason behind the ambitious nature of these nations in terms of trade. It has 27 member countries.…

There are some theories that the United Kingdom being involved in the European union restricts the idea of parliament sovereignty, this being that the fact parliament is no longer the supreme law maker, as they have to involve European laws into the United Kingdom so the fact that parliament didn't make the law goes against the quote 'What the Queen in Parliament enacts is law'. The British constitution…

legal sovereignty is the EU. As epitomised by the Factortame case of 1990 and, more recently, the 2008 Coleman case, European Law ultimately takes primacy over UK law. In terms of sovereignty however, this is directly counteracted with the UK’s ability to withdraw membership at any time and restore its own sovereignty (as recognised in 1972 during negotiations regarding the European Community). It is important to firstly outline a few ways in which EU sovereignty has disadvantaged Britain. In…

Parliament and the effects of the UK leaving the European Union. Triggering Article 50 without Parliament’s consent is considered…

European Union The author Harm de Blij of the book “why geography matters more than ever” stated that Europe is one of the most important part in the world and the place where WW one and WW two started. After the WW two, as European countries were losing the wealth and influence worldwide, the EEC came out with the first six countries. The EEC had been developed into a brand new organization which called “the European union”, and almost 30 countries have joined the EU. The EU is currently…

assist Greece. It will be risky to allow Greece to fail. Most of the European countries own billions of Greeks debt for instance Germany €68.2 billion, France €43.8 billion, Italy €38.4 billion and Spain €25 billion. Allowing Greece to collapse will cause its debt to default thus wasting billions of taxpayers’ money resulting the government to answer to its population. Apart from that, the Greek’s debt is not only own by the European governments, private companies and banks also held them. The…