The European Lawyer

Extracting value

The oil industry is never far away from legal action. The very nature of pumping liquid gold from deep and remote crevices of the earth

Outdated independence

Independence has been a theme of this publication since its launch nearly a dozen years ago. Independence of thought and analysis &ndas

Club benefits

The EU has come a long way since 1952, but its future is now subject to speculation from many quarters, especially with the turmoil in

Fire sale

Italy is trying to have its cake and eat it in response to a political and public outcry over the loss of several ‘national treas

Best of the bailout bunch

Ireland

Schoolchildren across the US are taught to proclaim ‘God bless America’ at every imaginable opportunity. But currently the

Clash of principles

United Kingdom

In today’s global village, one man’s comments in the still relatively remote Persian Gulf jurisdiction of the United Arab E

One-nil to the publican

Sport accounts for more than three per cent of world trade and in the EU the sector is now worth 3.7 per cent of the combined GNP of th

Competing interests

Across Europe the impact of the global financial crisis has varied – the eurozone crisis caused Greece, Portugal and Ireland to r

Speaking in tongues

Companies today are more likely than ever to operate on a global scale – large corporations frequently have operations in three o

In or out?

In the UK’s recent review of civil litigation costs last year, the report’s head, Appeal Court judge Lord Justice Jackson,

Celling out

Europe’s Court of Justice several weeks ago issued its long awaited decision in the Brüstle v Greenpeace case concerning the

Desert tax

Portugal

Portugal is attempting to bring investment to the so-called emerging countries, and not just Portuguese-speaking regions, but all those

Keeping secrets

Estonia

Estonia’s Data Protection Inspectorate issued guidelines at the beginning of this year on data protection in employment relations