Author Archive: Urszula Jaremba
Introducing the Foreign Subsidies Regulation: New regulatory regime and enforcement powers for the EU
In this piece, the five-part RENFORCE blog series on the new Foreign Subsidies Regulation (FSR) is introduced by Urszula Jaremba.
The FSR – adopted in December 2022, and due to enter into force next week – is an extraordinary piece of EU legislation. Whereas its primary goal is to address distortions on the internal market brought on by subsidies granted by non-EU governments to undertakings active in the EU, the new rules interact and intersect with various EU regulatory regimes in the areas of antitrust, public procurement, and Common Commercial Policy. At the same time, under this novel regulatory regime, the European Commission is designated new, extensive and exclusive enforcement powers which, in turn, give rise to various questions of institutional and constitutional nature pertaining to the democratic foundations of the European Union.
Whereas this blog post offers a general introduction to this new and fascinating regulatory regime and its main features, other authors (details below) will shed light on the FSR from the perspective of their own academic disciplines.
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Enforcement of European Union values: how should the EU respond to the recent threat to democracy in Poland?
Let’s admit it, things are going wrong in Poland and it can be said that democracy is seriously under threat in the European Union’s sixth-largest Member State. On 23 December 2015, the Sejm – the lower house of the Polish Parliament – passed a highly controversial law, which reorganizes the Constitutional Court. A few days later Andrzej Duda – the president of the country since August 2015 – signed the bill into law. The signing took place after a few weeks of a contentious constitutional crisis and despite of the domestic public outcry, large street demonstrations, concerns from the European Commission and the members of the European Parliament and international criticism.