A law unto itself. The ECJ and the rot of sovereignty: the case of income taxation.
The paper argues that the European Court of Justice has, on the strength of its perceived mandate to uphold the four freedoms, created a jurisprudential ground for intervention even in areas where the member states nominally retain full sovereignty, and where the right of veto in the Council is the explicit norm. This means that the Court has, of its own accord, adopted an integrative role which h