Category: European Law

The CJEU confirmed this morning in C‑339/22 BSH Hausgeräte GmbH v Electrolux AB (no language versions other than French and Swedish at the time of posting) that in principle Brussels Ia’s exclusive jurisdictional rule for registered intellectual property rights (A24(4) has no reflexive effect. [I suggest below that the reasoning extends to all of A24)….

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Written by Maria Margarita Mentzelopoulou and Anita Orav. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 forced millions of people to flee Ukraine. To date, approximately 6.8°million people have had to seek refuge, mostly in the EU and its neighbourhood. The EU responded rapidly in March 2022, activating the Temporary Protection Directive (TPD) for the…

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In a single paragraph, at page four of the recent ‘Competitiveness Compass’, the European Commission briefly presents the ‘28th legal regime’. The latter is an additional, optional legal framework that is meant to provide ‘a single, harmonised set of EU-wide rules’, ‘including any relevant aspects of corporate law, insolvency, labour and tax law’. This legal…

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Friedrich Merz looks set to become the next German chancellor after leading the CDU/CSU to victory in Germany’s federal election. Florian Stoeckel writes that given the pace of international events, having new leadership in place quickly would be advantageous for both Europe and Germany. Germany’s election results are in, and as anticipated, the conservative CDU/CSU…

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   Tiago Sérgio Cabral* ** PhD Candidate at the University of Minho | Researcher at JusGov | Project Expert for the Portuguese team in the “European Network on Digitalization and E-governance” (ENDE). Author’s opinions are his own. Photo credit: Salino01, via Wikimedia Commons   Introduction to AI Literacy under the AI Act   Under Article…

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Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity   In her post “Empire by Purchase: From Manhattan to Greenland (1625-2025),” Janne Nijman examines the historical and contemporary practice of nations acquiring territories through financial transactions. The author discusses U.S. President Trump’s expressed interest in purchasing Greenland and contextualizes this within a broader historical framework of territorial acquisitions via purchase, such…

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On 27 February 2025, a public conference will be organized on the Court’s Knowledge Sharing Platform (ECHR-KS). This conference will be part of an event to launch the new language versions of the platform (Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian). During the conference speakers will explain how users (legal professionals, academics and journalists) can best navigate through…

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Last week, the General Court of the EU (“Court”) released a set of seven significant judgments concerning the EU’s restrictive measures (sanctions) against Russia.[1] The Court has partially dismissed sanctions imposed by the Council of the EU against Alexander Shulgin, while it has maintained sanctions in the six other cases. The judgments are particularly important…

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Warum Art. 34-35 DSA den systemischen Risiken dieses Bundestagswahlkampfs kaum abhelfen konnte Die Integrität der anstehenden Bundestagswahl und zukünftiger europäischer Wahlen ist von Einflussnahmen über soziale Netzwerke bedroht. Eine Abhilfe soll der Digital Services Act (DSA) darstellen, der nicht nur von Bundesdigitalminister Wissing als ein „scharfes Schwert“ gegen Wahlmanipulation angesehen wird. Die erst 2024 vollständig…

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Maria Clara Pina (master’s student in Human Rights at the School of Law of the University of Minho) I. Currently, in the so-called era of techno-solutionism,[1] digital technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), have become widely used.[2] We are witnessing the emerging but rapidly evolving phenomenon of border management and control through the use of new…

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