The new EU Succession Regulation in a nutshell
Multinational families or individuals with assets in different states, for example a bank account or a holiday home abroad, have been faced with conflicting (private international) laws which have led to difficulties, delays and uncertainties both during the planning stage of a succession and following a death. Facing this situation, the new EU Succession Regulation (EU) No 650/20121 which is applicable since 17 August 2015 aims to ameliorate and simplify international inheritance rules. However, due to various uncertainties it consequently provides for new challenges in crossborder estate planning.2
TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY School of Business and Governance Department of Law Julia Jääskeläinen EU MIGRATION POLICY COOPERATION APPROACH TOWARDS THE SOUTHERN MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES AFTER THE ARAB UPHEAVALS: the GAMM and the European Agenda on Migration
................................................................................................................................... 3 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................... 5 1. DEVELOPMENT OF EU EXTERNAL MIGRATION POLICY .............................................. 8 1.1. Inclusion of migration into EU’s external affairs ........................................................................ 8 1.2. The revised EU’s external migration policy after the Arab Spring ............................................. 9 1.2.1. The Global Approach on Migration and Mobility ................................................................ 10 1.2.2. The European Agenda on Migration ..................................................................................... 12 2. COOPERATION ON MIGRATION: EU and the Southern Mediterranean countries ............. 14 2.1. Brief overview of the relations of EU and the Southern Mediterranean region ........................ 16 2.2. Relevant EU Actors .................................................................................................................. 18 3. THE POST ARAB SPRING MIGRATION POLICY: aims vs. practice ................................ 21 3.1. Migration and Development ...................................................................................................... 21 3.2. Legal migration channels........................................................................................................... 23 3.3. Human rights ............................................................................................................................. 24 4. IMPACT OF MEMBER STATES NATIONAL POLITICS ................................................... 26 CONCLUSIONS ........................................................................................................................... 27 REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................. 29
Monte Carlo properties of spatial dependence LM tests
This paper compares the power and size of both spatial one-directional and robust to local misspecification LM test using Monte Carlo techniques under different set ups. Confirming the results found in Anselin et al . (1996), under local misspecification the robust LM test improves its size and power of tests. However, under no misspecification, the robust LM test is severely penalized and the usual one-directional LM test has a much better performance.