European Union Law and Government

RCC is proud to announce a special event for RCC Fellows. Please join us for an off-the-record conversation with Joaquin Almunia about current issues and the political situation in Spain, Europe and the World. RSVP is required for this event. Please note...

Henry Timms will discuss the ideas of his most recent work, with Jeremy Heimans: New Power: How Power Works in our Hyperconnected World—and How to Make it Work for You,featured as the Big Idea in the Harvard Business Review and by CNN as one of the ten...

Join Professor Jose M. Martinez as he discusses options for legal careers in the European space and in the European Union. This informal discussion will center around career paths working within the European Commission and other European Institutions as...

Cross-border dispute settlement through arbitration keeps growing at the global level, especially on bilateral investment and international tax matters. Yet, the recent Achmea judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union establishes legal...

In 2016, the Paris Climate Agreement limited the increase of the global average temperature to 1.5 °C. The governance architecture to make these goals a reality has been bottom-up, fragmented and poly-centric. Two years after Paris, the EU has reformed...

The event intends to analyze the impact of corporate taxation on the EU-US relations in the light of global competition. In particular, the focus is on the EU reaction to Trump’s taxation and commercial strategy and on global competition in the...

The protracted Brexit negotiations have shown the current gap between two paradigms of international economic cooperation. Internally, and with a small group of neighbors, the EU operates a market integration system, which has developed over several...

During the Eurozone debt crisis, the voice of Spain was missing in European affairs. The focus was on internal reforms. Over the past years, however, Spain is growing above average rates and the new socialist Government of Pedro Sánchez is keen to have a...

The RCC and Harvard Spain are proud to announce a special event for RCC Fellows and Harvard Spain students. Please join us for an off-the-record conversation with Joaquín Almunia about current issues and the political situation in Spain, Europe and the...

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued its much-anticipated decisions on two requests for preliminary rulings concerning whether the prohibition on wearing headscarves at the workplace constitutes discrimination (C-188/15 Asma Bougnaoui, ADDH v...