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Tras el referéndum celebrado en el Reino Unido en junio de 2016, en el que una mayoría votó a favor de que el país abandonara la Unión, se ha iniciado un período de incertidumbre para esta y el Reino Unido. Aunque el proceso de retirada de la Unión se recoge en el artículo 50 del Tratado de la Unión Europea, en la práctica quedan una serie de cuestiones poco claras, tanto más cuanto que no hay precedentes de la salida de un Estado miembro de la Unión. El presente análisis en profundidad toma en ...

In December 2015, the European Commission proposed setting up a European Border and Coast Guard System (EBCGS), building on the European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the EU (Frontex). The proposal would introduce a supervisory role and a 'right to intervene' in situations at the border requiring urgent action; expand Frontex's operational tasks and its prerogatives on processing personal data; and reinforce fundamental rights ...

The European Union, like its Member States, has to comply with the principle of the rule of law and respect for fundamental rights when fulfilling the tasks set out in the Treaties. These legal obligations have been framed progressively by the case law of the European Court of Justice. The Court filled the gaps in the original Treaties, thus simultaneously ensuring the autonomy and consistency of the EU legal order and its relation with national constitutional orders. Since the entry into force ...