Five Questions to Lilian Tsourdi Germany is once again controlling all of its national borders, triggering fears that this could put the European project at risk. In Germany, the measures are being discussed as a necessary response to the knife attack in Solingen, where three people were killed by an asylum seeker. At the same […]
Isabel de Paiva (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of the University of Minho) ▪ Competition and free economic initiative structure the regulation of markets. In a legal order that follows and preserves economic freedom – that is, in a market economy, or more precisely, in a ‘social market economy’ […]
If Vodafone and Three merge, it will be the first time that the UK telecoms market would have less than four network operators since Orange and One2One entered the market in the early 1990s. The CMA would nowadays be expected to block 4-to-3 mergers, especially where there is little chance of a new market entrant, […]
Are exploitative contracts part of innovation? 2020 has not only been a year of pandemic. The year has also provided additions to the growing tome of ‘gig economy’ litigation; case law that has largely (though not exclusively) centred around Uber. Employment status has been the focal point of this discussion. Attention should be drawn to […]
In March, the CJEU issued a ruling (Case C-604/22 IAB Europe) that has sparked a lot of discussion. The ruling addresses certain practices related to online advertising in Europe, particularly the collection of personal data for the purpose of behavioural advertising. Facts of the case The Interactive Advertising Bureau Europe (IAB Europe) is a non-profit […]
Federation: The 1960 constitution of the Republic of Cyprus has been characterised as a ‘functional federation’. The reason behind this characterisation is the following. The Constitution established institutions of a common State where the presence of representatives of both communities was compulsory. At the same time, it guaranteed a great deal of (non-territorial) autonomy for the […]
Confiscation of criminally obtained assets can be imposed in civil courts without a conviction. Since this move is controversial, the EU is now seeking strict safeguards and could look to Indonesia as an example. In non-conviction-based confiscation (NCBC) proceedings, a court rules to confiscate assets from an individual without a preceding criminal prosecution. Models of […]
Following weeks of disrupted trade flows, rejected calls to invoke Article 16, security concerns for officials conducting checks required at ports, and a European Commission misjudgement which would have seen Article 16 invoked, enough has been enough for Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP). In a statement issued by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on 2nd […]
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay As reported in earlier posts on this blog, in a 2022 study, I examined the national implementations in the 11 Member States that had at that time transposed Article 15 (the press publishers’ right) and Article 17 (the special copyright liability regime for “online content-sharing services providers” (OCSSPs)) of the […]
There has been a lot of talk about artificial intelligence (“AI”) in international arbitration in recent years. I vividly remember when I gave the keynote speech on “International Arbitration 3.0 – How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Dispute Resolution” at the Vienna Arbitration Days 2018. At the time, people were quite skeptical about the topic, but […]