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…
On January 16 the CJEU issued two judgments further interpreting Regulation 261/2004 on air passenger rights, in the cases flightright (C-642/23) and Qatar Airways (C-516/23). flightright (C-642/23) A passenger booked via a tour operator a flight operated by Etihad Airways from Düsseldorf (Germany) to Brisbane (Australia), via Abu Dhabi (UAE) with an open return ticket. The flight from…
Photo by Kevin Snow on Unsplash In a recent decision, the UK IPEC has considered whether the format of a comedy show can be protectable as a dramatic work in copyright. The claim was brought by Joshua Rinkoff (the “Claimant”) for copyright infringement of a comedy show he wrote, produced and acted in called “Shambles”….
Seeing the Agreement in Principle on Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) “modernization” and its leaked full text, the “modernization” misnomer can safely be abandoned. The renegotiated ECT does not rise to the mounting global challenges regarding energy investment, climate action, and sustainable development. The ECT reform process missed the mark in nature, scope, ambition, and speed…
On February 10, 2025, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) released an updated response to the draft Data (Use and Access) Bill (the “DUA Bill”), providing comments on the amendments made to the DUA Bill by the House of Lords. The ICO provided its initial response to the DUA Bill in October 2024. As stated…
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The CJEU held earlier this morning in C‑393/23 Athenian Brewery SA, Heineken NV v Macedonian Thrace Brewery SA (no language versions available at the time of posting than Dutch and French). My post on Kokott AG’s Opinion is here. The AG all in all supported a ready acceptance of forum connexitatis in competition law cases – in the…
Written by Clare Ferguson and Katarzyna Sochacka. The highlight of the February 2025 plenary session was the presentation of the European Commission’s long-awaited 2025 work programme and the subsequent debate. The session also saw a debate on Council and Commission statements on continued EU support for Ukraine, followed by an address by Ruslan Stefanchuk, Speaker of…
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Transparency is an explicit normative choice made in the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights. They place an obligation on the EU Institutions to ‘conduct their work as openly as possible’, take ‘decisions as openly as possible’ and ‘ensure publication of the documents relating to the legislative procedures’ with a view of guaranteeing…
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The Democratic Republic of the Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960. Yet as Georgi Verbeeck explains, debates about Belgium’s colonial past remain far from over. Belgium, like its neighbouring countries, has rediscovered its colonial past. While for a long time there was a certain tendency towards nostalgia and at least a repression of the…
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Ulla Neergaard, Professor of EU Law, University of Copenhagen Photo credit: Gordon Leggett, via Wikimedia Commons *This contribution draws upon Ulla Neergaard’s forthcoming work, “‘Eurarctic’: Colonialism and EU-Greenland Relations” in Hanna Eklund’s edited volume, “Colonialism and the EU Legal Order,” to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. For a more…
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