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EUROPEAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC LAWVol. 26_3/2014 (93) This ERPL issuestarts by an articleon social rightsand sets out theobjectives that haveto be attained. Thesecond article, byway of comparisonof the Greek andBritish systems,tries to evaluate theeffectiveness of theFixed-term Parliaments Act, which was passed in 2011 by the UK Parliament as a responseto the abusive recourse to dissolution. The third article looks at the Federal Republic of Germany in comparison with other federations in view of the basic federal idea and the distribution of competences and powers between federation and Länder. The principle of transparency in EU law is the theme treated in the last article included in this ERPL issue. In the section of chronicles on Constitutional Law, Austria, Northern Ireland, Slovakia, Turkey and Ukraine are represented whereas, in the section of Administrative Law, the reader can nd chronicles coming from Belgium and Portugal. In the section of Jurisprudence, developments on the CJEU Jurisprudence and on Portuguese Constitutional Jurisprudence are chronicled. This ERPL issue is concluded by the Book Reviews Section, in which two Book Reviews chronicles presenting and commenting on latest editions in Austria and Ukraine respectively are included. In addition, reviews on important public law books received by the EPLO Library are included in this section.Vol. 26_4/2014 (94) This ERPLissue starts by thespeech presentedby José ManuelSérvulo Correia,Professor Emeritusat the Facultyof Law of theUniversity of Lisbon,on the occasionof the ceremonyof attribution toProfessor Sérvulo Correia of the title of Doctor honoris causa of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens. In the section of articles, there are ve articles treating topical public law issues. The rst study describes the current role of the European Court of Auditors in the context of audit on public nances ofthe States and of the European legal system. The second article analyzes the problem of con icts between national res judicata andan external body of rules (at international or supranational level, within the EU and ECHR systems). The principle of institutional balance is examined in the third article in this ERPL issue, which maintains that this principle which has been used by the Court of Justice since the beginning of the European construction, could be used in a more systematic way asit is a key to understanding the institutional system of the Union and its evolutions and it can apply to all new issues originating from the Lisbon Treaty. The fourth article provides an evaluation of the legislation, case lawand the aftermath of duress that vulnerable asylum applicants experience until theirstay has been regularized. The relevantACTIVITY REPORT 2016 135