Ricerc@Sapienza

By Order of 28 February 2017 in case T-192/16, NF v. European Council, the General Court dismissed as inadmissible an action for annulment brought against the s.c. EU-Turkey deal concluded on 18 March 2016. In the view of the General Court, independently of its binding nature, the deal is to be attributed to the Member States and not to the EU. This Insight examines the technical shortcomings of this conclusion, and its controversial political wisdom.

Cantharus (PAA 563810) was a poet of OLD COMEDY, who probably won a victory at the City DIONYSIA in 422 BCE (inferred from plausible restorations of IRDF 2318.582 and 2325C.26). We possess five play-titles and thirteen quotations, totalling seven lines plus a few isolated words.

The frequency of flood events has increased across most of the U.S. Midwest in the past 50–70 years; however, little is known about what is driving these changes. Using an observation-driven approach, we develop a statistical framework to attribute the changes in the frequency of flood peak events to changes in the climate system and to land use / land cover. We focus on 287 U.S. Geological Survey sites with at least 50 years of daily discharge measurements between the second half of the 20th century and the present.