Month: October 2026

The Council General Secretariat: The Civil Service That Keeps the File

The Council General Secretariat (GSC) is the part of the Council machinery that most practitioners encounter indirectly: in the document number on a working party note, in the chair’s brief, in the archive entry that lets a file …

Article 260 TFEU: What Happens When a Member State Ignores a Court Judgment

When a Member State loses an infringement case before the Court of Justice, the judgment does not enforce itself. Article 260 TFEU supplies the mechanism for what happens next — but it is not a single escalating ladder. …