When – first in the Netherlands, and later in other countries such as Belgium and Luxembourg - laws were adopted to legalize euthanasia, the selling argument was that this was a decisive step forward in order to ensure everyone's self-determination. The ECtHR's recent decision in the case of Gard and Others v. the United Kingdom reveals quite…

Jakob Cornides, JurD, serves as an official in the European Commission's Directorate General for Trade. The views expressed in this contribution are the author's, and are in no way attributable to the institution where he is employed. In this year’s “State of the Union Address”, delivered on 11 September 2013 at the…