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Trump Hotel in Washington DC appears to have some lease issues

Pedro Telles

29 Nov 2016

My good friends Steve Schooner and Dan Gordon from George Washington University published a very interesting piece about the legal issues surrounding the lease of the Trump Hotel near the White House.

No ... elected official of the Government of the United States shall be admitted to any share or part of this Lease, or to any benefit

Uh-oh. Let's wait for the tweet from the President-Elect.

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New paper on electronic procurement is out

I have a new paper out on electronic public procurement in the EU, focused on the failures of the current legislative framework with some ideas of what should be done in the upcoming revision of the procurement Directives. Here's the abstract: This paper critiques the EU’s electronic

By Pedro Telles 04 Jul 2025

What does the programme of the Danish EU Presidency say about public procurement?

The Danish EU Presidency has put out its programme for the upcoming semester when Denmark will hold the presidency of the Council of the European Union. The programme is called "A strong Europe in a changing world" but when it comes down to public procurement we are not

By Pedro Telles 26 Jun 2025

New working paper is out

I have just uploaded to SSRN a new working paper on the failure of the successive rounds of Directives in solving the direct cross-border issue. In short, home bias is as almost as present today as it was in the 1960s. For this one I dabbed a bit outside the

By Pedro Telles 19 Jun 2025

The Commission's Q&A on Kolin and Qingdao leaves many questions unanswered

The European Commission put out last week a non-paper on the interpretation and application of the Kolin and Qingdao cases for economic operators coming from third countries. This is a fairly cautious document and probably the most the Commission can do at the moment and in this Q&A

By Pedro Telles 20 May 2025
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