Ecosystems The 2023 Booking/eTraveli merger prohibition by the European Commission (EC) was the first EC merger prohibition concerning digital platforms. Booking offered primarily a hotel online travel agency (OTA), amongst other smaller offerings in flights and car rentals, while eTraveli offered a flight OTA. The concept of an ‘ecosystem’ that was used in the Commission’s […]
Salvo Nicolosi and Türkan Ertuna Lagrand, University of Utrecht Photo credit: USAID, via Wikimedia Commons Just a couple of weeks after the Taliban regime in Afghanistan announced a new decree prohibiting women from being heard when speaking outside their homes, on 4 October, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) […]
Print this article POST 19 OF THE SERIES OF THE ODYSSEUS BLOG ON THE PACT ON MIGRATION & ASYLUM By Ulrike Brandl, Associate Professor at the Department of International Law and International Organisations, Faculty of Law, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg AUDIO VERSION AVAILABLE HERE Introduction The rules in the New Pact on Migration and […]
The American people have spoken: Donald Trump won the presidential election in a landslide, securing himself a second term in the White House that is due to begin on January 20th next year. The Republican nominee’s resounding victory comes with major implications for the war in Ukraine: Shortly after the election, the Wall Street Journal […]
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On 5 and 6 December this year, Mikael Rask Madsen (director of iCourts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen) and Cormac Mac Amhlaigh (Law School of the University of Edinburgh) are organizing a two-day workshop entitled ‘‘Taking Ambivalence Seriously’: The European Court of Human Rights and Democracy Promotion‘. The conference will focus on the role of the […]
In response to the challenges posed by global conflicts, particularly Russia’s war with Ukraine, the Council of the EU and European Parliament (EP) have made a landmark agreement to criminalize the violation of EU sanctions across Member States. This agreement marks one of the most significant achievements of the EU’s commitment to uphold a unified […]
This week, Verfassungsblog all eyes were on EYES EVERYWHERE, our Focus symposium on state and private mass surveillance under the EU Charta. At its core is the question of balancing security interests with fundamental rights in an increasingly digitalized world. The symposium offers nuanced perspectives on how far democratic societies can go in the name […]
Ana Cardoso (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho) Last Monday, 25 November, marked the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. The President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, stressed that MEPs “stand with those abused, traumatised, bullied and brutalised”, as Parliament buildings were illuminated as part of […]
A few years ago, digital services were mainly subject to horizontal rules (i.e., rules that apply to all sectors of the economy), such as competition rules, consumer protection regulation, and data protection regulation. Until recently, these rules were not well-equipped to address the challenges posed by digital technologies. As regards sector-specific instruments, digital services were […]
Alas, this has not exactly been the modus operandi of the Brexit negotiations. The Member States have long agreed on what the basic parameters of the Withdrawal Agreement should be: protection of the rights of EU citizens living in the UK and UK citizens’ living in the EU; the financial settlement; and ensuring that the […]