Beligh Nabli is a Senior Lecturer in Public Law at the University of Paris XII. His Ph.D thesis “L’exercice des fonctions d’Etat membre de l’Union européenne » (December 2005, European University Institute, Florence), was published in 2007 (Dalloz, 667 p.). Beligh has an LL.M. (D.E.A.) in Public Law and a LL.M. (D.E.S.S.) in European Law of the University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne). He also has a graduate diploma of the Institute of International Studies at the University Paris II (Panthéon-Assas).
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The severe crisis in the euro area in the first half of 2010 has raised concerns about the sustainability of the euro area and the future of the single currency. This crisis has economic causes, in particular a considerable level of indebtedness and widening competitiveness gaps within the (...)
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Les enjeux et perspectives de la contribution au service public de l’électricité, DIEFENBACHER Michel and LAUNEY Jean, Rapport d’information de la commission des finances de l’Assemblée nationale, n° 2818, 28 September 2010, 48 p. Parliamentarians remain attentive to developments in the strategic (...)
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These two parliamentary reports published at the same time relate the development of La Poste’s legal status to the requirements of Community competition law. Their successive and complementary presentation will nonetheless make it possible to draw common conclusions and analyses. Information (...)
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On 17 June 2009, Senator Jean Bizet presented his report to the European Affairs Committee of the Senate on the state of transposition of Directive 2006/123/EC of 12 December 2006 on services in the internal market (hereinafter "the Directive"). The transposition of this directive, "not like (...)
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French parliamentarians are particularly attentive to developments in the national and European energy sector. This mobilisation reflects an awareness of the political and economic stakes involved in energy independence and security. The report presented by Mr André Schneider and Mr Philippe (...)
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The financial crisis that began in August 2007 was very late in mobilizing international leaders. At the time when the crisis was reaching its climax, after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the very effective reaction of European countries, under the French Presidency, and of the European (...)
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The subprime crisis has been marked by a growing awareness of the role of sovereign wealth funds. Reflecting the imbalances of industrialized nations, their investment strategies are diversifying and their assets could reach 12 trillion dollars in 2015. Their relative opacity makes the (...)
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In the current context of the international financial crisis, it is interesting to note the way in which the national representation approaches the strategic and complex phenomenon of sovereign wealth funds. These new players in the international financial markets have asserted themselves over (...)
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The "third energy package", presented by the European Commission in September 2007 (see No. 4-2007Concurrences, Regulations column, pp. 135-137), constitutes a new stage in the liberalisation of the internal energy market. This new wave of Community texts is part of a process that deserves to (...)
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The report on "Europe in a globalised world", prepared by Laurent Cohen-Tanugi, was commissioned by Christine Lagarde, Minister for the Economy, Industry and Employment, and Xavier Bertrand, Minister for Labour, Social Relations, the Family and Solidarity in November 2007 to take stock of the (...)
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Parliamentary reports are often praised for their pedagogical quality and their art of putting things into perspective. The report by Claude Birraux MEP on the bill authorising the ratification of the Act revising the Convention on the Grant of European Patents is proof of this. As a reminder, (...)
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The European directives and regulations adopted in 1996, 2003 and 2005 relating to the completion of the internal electricity market are gradually establishing a competitive European electricity market while respecting the specific characteristics of national markets. The French transposition (...)
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With contributions from leading scholars from all over Europe and the US, this book covers the major areas of substantive competition law from an evolutionary perspective. The leitmotiv of the book has been to assess the dividing line between safeguarding and regulating competition, which it (...)
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By mission letter of 22 June 2004, the Minister of State, Minister for the Economy, Finance and Industry, convened the group of experts provided for in the agreement signed on 17 June 2004 between the main operators in the large-scale distribution and industry sector. The mission letter invited (...)
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The book that caught our attention is soberly entitled "State Aid". It is the result of an international colloquium organised on 13 October 2004 by the Institute of European Studies of the Université libre de Bruxelles in collaboration with the Permanent Representation of Belgium to the EU. This (...)
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The fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of the administrative courts has been worthily celebrated in several colloquia in France, including that of Grenoble, by virtue of a true tradition. Indeed, in 1974, 1984 and 1994, Grenoble had already been a privileged meeting place around the (...)
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The Institut Montaigne is a laboratory of ideas, a "French-style think tank" whose work feeds and enriches public debate. The report that has caught our attention provides an initial assessment of the overall economic and social strategy defined by the Lisbon European Council of 23 and 24 March (...)
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