On 22 July 2010 the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave its advisory opinion on the initial question: ‘Is the unilateral declaration of independence by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government of Kosovo in accordance with international law?“ The advisory opinion was requested by the General Assembly (GA) on 8 October 2008. The ICJ established that […]

On my last day in Budapest, I bought a book from the University Bookshop: Daniel A. Bell. Beyond Liberal Democracy. Princeton University Press Princeton and Oxford, 2006. Most books are nowadays also available as e-books, but I wanted to read something on my travel back to Estonia, and strangely the CEU bookshop cannot be characterized […]

Preparing for the CEU exam, and trying to answer the question about the impetus for the new European Council Presidency, I first started to think about the Belgium Presidency of the Council of the European Union that began on 1 July 2010 and is paving the way for the Hungarian Presidency from 1 January to 30 […]

I attended the conference „New Values after the Lisbon Treaty“ today, 7 July 2010, organized by the Pázmány Péter Catholic University. The conference began with registration and welcome buffet (Hungarian kitchen – food as part of identity), and was structured as follows: 14.00-14.10 Welcoming words by György Fodor, Rector of the Pazmany Catholic University 14.10-14.30 Message of […]

  On July, the 4th, I depart for Budapest, with the aim to participate in the Advanced Course in European Union Legal Practice (Special Lisbon Treaty edition). The course has been worked out and is conducted by the Department of Legal Studies, and the Summer University of Central European University (CEU), and the Total Law Team. The course […]

I am revising one of my articles that I had proposed years ago to an Estonian social science journal. The article is about making of primary and secondary laws in the European Union in the context of universal and state-centred theories. Looking for the appropriate contextual framework, and hoping to bring clearly out distinction between human […]

How does Estonia look like in midsummer? I recently did find the nicest photos about that from one of Evelin Ilves’, the Estonian President’s  wife’s, web pages. As it was technically impossible to refer to that website otherwise, I have made a link to that web page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/album.php?aid=18620&id=119700418047863&ref=mf Unfortunately, You may first be required to log in to Facebook (after logging […]