Jaanika Erne

I have heard an Estonian song (Tõnu Trubetsky) about Churches and television masts as direct gateways to human consciousness. Again, some day, after I have defended my Ph.D. Dissertation, I hope to write more about that. But meanwhile, I would put up some videos of my lectures at the Tallinn University as means of influencing consciousness. I […]

I gave a lecture at the Tallinn University today on New Forms of Governance in the EU. I tried to discuss conferral of powers on the EU, the classes of powers that can be conferred, exercise of powers, sources of powers, limits to powers, the principle of subsidiarity, the principle of proportionality, state participation, comitology, enhanced […]

Reading the news about the plane crash in Russia with the Polish elite on the plane, included President Lech Kaczyński, his wife, the former Polish president-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, the Head of State Defence, the heads of all of Poland’s armed forces, the head of the National Security Bureau, the Ombudsman, the president of the Central Bank, […]

As it is not an official holiday in Estonia today, I am giving my second lecture-seminar on EU law at the Tallinn University. I hope to discuss the TEU, the TFEU, the economic policy, CFSP, ESDP, PJCC, the seven institutions and their composition, role, powers, voting mechanisms if applicable, as well as the role and […]

On the 31st of March 2010 was published the Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, the Council, the European Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions – Commission Work Programme 2010. The document begins with indicating „The new era“, and the four main tasks for the new Commission: • Tackling […]

The EU Law Blog informs about the new publication of the consolidated versions of the TEU and TFEU in the OJ, 2010 C 83, p. 1, and of also the consolidated version of the European Atomic Energy Community Treaty in the OJ 2010 C 84, p. 1. In addition, on 31 March 2010, the European […]