Per Aspera ad Astra? Concretising CILFIT from Consorzio Italian Management to Remling

This Weekend Edition of EU Law Live traces the long-standing clarification process of the preliminary reference procedure, the 'jewel' in the Court of Justice's crown, from Consorzio Italian Management to Remling (C-767/23). The Long Read outlines how Remling marks another important step forward in this process, while arguing that the Court has not been able to satisfy all the hopes placed in the judgment. As this contribution shows, some of these aspirations were unrealistic from the outset: the structural limitations inherent in the preliminary reference procedure arguably cannot be overcome as long as individuals do not have a right to obtain a preliminary reference and the CILFIT criteria remain unaltered.