30 July 2026
A Right Not to Move
What does Union citizenship, traditionally dependent on a cross-border element, offer to those who have never exercised their right to free movement? For more than a decade, the position of “static Union citizens” has remained confined to the exceptional protection recognised in Zambrano. In its recent judgment in Safi, delivered on 4 June 2026, the ECJ extended those limits. The judgment established that Union citizenship protects static minor Union citizens from being forced to move within the Union. In doing so, the Court implicitly recognised a right not to move. Continue reading >>
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06 July 2026
Private International Law and European Society
Can one speak of a European society without speaking about private relations? Recent scholarship on European society has largely approached the concept through the lens of public law. Yet societies are constituted at least as much by the horizontal relations between individuals and groups as by public institutions. This blogpost turns to EU private international law (PIL) and will argue that EU PIL brings into view the importance of coordination frameworks for organising a mode of integration based not on unification, but on interdependence. Continue reading >>
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