Projects
Recharge - Human rights en Eu external relations and internal policies. KU Leuven
From the Leuven Center for Global Governance Studies we coordinate an application for the FP7 Cooperation Work Program. We work together with a number of leading foreign research groups with specializations in human rights, European policy and globalization, given the multidisciplinary focus of the project. Against the background of the complex, globalized world, the initiative aims to investigate changing patterns and future trends in the ...
H2020: BRIDGES: Bruggen om de productie en impact van migratieverhalen te beoordelen (OZR EU BONUS) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Refining the scope of application of EU fundamental rights in light of the diversification of EU law sources KU Leuven
The European Union protects fundamental rights through a variety of sources, including the Charter of fundamental rights and the general principles of Union law enshrined by the Court of Justice. However, unlike other national or international legal systems, EU fundamental rights do not bind the Member States in all situations. A link to EU law must be demonstrated in order to be able to invoke these rights before the Court of Justice of the ...
EU standards for judicial appointments – A clarification, revision and further development of EU legal requirements KU Leuven
Every judiciary depends on persons adjudicating legal disputes. Judicial appointment procedures are therefore a key feature in the organization of every state. Whilst designing such procedures was originally considered as inherently domestic area, states nowadays face an increasingly internationalized concept of judicial independence setting more and more standards for national judiciaries. In Europe, with the “constitutional backsliding” of ...
EU relations with the Global South - EU Development Policy Ghent University
The project will contribute to the ongoing research on the EU’s relations with the so-called ‘Global South’, with a particular focus on EU development policy. The project will engage in critical research on EU development policy, building on an already established research agenda on change and continuity in EU development policy. Drawing on the literatures on paradigm change and post-development, this agenda proposed four key questions for ...
Succesfully mainstreaming gender in Eu development cooperation and the role of the EU, the partner country and civil society. a best and worst ases analysis. Ghent University
The research seeks to which factors contribute to successful gender mainstreaming of EU development aid by analysing best and worst-case practices. The first hypothesis focuses on factors related to the preferences and intrests of the EU; the second hypothesis concentrates on internal political and goverance factors in the partner wountry; and the third hypothesis expolres the role of civil society.
EU decision-making with regard to international negotiations in first pillar domains: a comparative principal-agent analysis. KU Leuven
Article 19 TEU as the cement of the EU shared judicial space: An analysis of the CJEU’s case-law KU Leuven
In the recent years, the European Union (EU) has suffered of several crises that have put at strain its founding values and called for a strong response. One among other crises is the so-called “rule of law backsliding” or “rule of law crisis” that is threatening the very foundations of the EU legal order. The EU is built on the idea that founding values are common to the Member States and that the commitment to upholding them is shared ...
The right to social security in the European Union: a comparative analysis on the basis of the constitutional traditions common to the EU Member States, the European Convention on Human Rights and the European Social Charter. KU Leuven
The outbreak of the financial and economic crisis had a severe impact on national economies worldwide, including those of the member states of the European Union (EU). Several EU member states with financial difficulties received financial support by the EU institutions. In return, they were obliged to reduce public spending and as a result, national social security systems were drastically reformed. Since the financial and economic crisis, ...