By Leonardo Munhoz, Researcher at Observatório de Bioeconomia da Fundação Getulio Vargas, São Paulo, and Jorge Rezende, law student at Fundação Getúlio Vargas Traceability for livestock activity is becoming increasingly essential as worldwide demand for exports and more conscious consumption from a socio-environmental perspective grow. For example, in 2023, the European Parliament adopted the Deforestation…
T-Mobile to Spend 31.5 Million Dollars to Settle Multiple FCC Investigations Related to Recent Data Breaches On September 30, 2024, the Federal Communications Commission announced that T-Mobile has entered into an agreement to settle multiple data protection and cybersecurity investigations stemming from data breaches in 2021, 2022 and 2023. The breaches involved the personal information…
Introduction The introduction of new technologies have always thrust the issue of Public Procurement into the spotlight, subtly or otherwise. Recently, the Overton window in tech circles has been dominated by one discussion uber alles: Artificial Intelligence. So far, AI has already obtained credible influence in the way public procurement tenders can be drafted and…
What to do if you are served with a German Default Judgment? In German civil litigation cases, the court will immediately issue a default court order (Versäumnisurteil) against any party that does not appear for a court hearing unless that party (claimant or defendant) is properly excused. This is why every German litigation lawyer worth…
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Written by Guillaume Ragonnaud. The EU automotive sector has a century-old tradition of producing vehicles with internal combustion engines. It enjoys a global reputation for mechanical engineering excellence, quality, design and creativity. Today, the sector is at a crossroads: the green transition, digitalisation and global competition (in particular China’s emergence as a leading global auto…
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It seems to be a never-ending series with countless episodes: the puzzle of the EU’s accession to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) remains on the EU’s agenda. It continues to be there not least because of the constitutional imperative under Article 6 TEU, which was inserted in the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007….
There has been speculation about the prospect of Armenia breaking with Russia and developing a closer relationship with the EU. Taras Kuzio argues that despite positive statements about European integration from Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, Armenia remains closely tied to Russia. Over the last few years, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has repeatedly floated the…
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The EU body of law counts more than 100,000 pieces of legislation and some argue that the legislative activity of the EU has been declining. However, are these laws being followed and do they bring the expected results? To answer these questions, it is important to investigate relevant implementation processes. Enforcement is a process of…
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Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: mikemacmarketing, image via vpnsrus Full disclosure first: After exactly ten and a half years, I stopped posting on X (formerly Twitter) on August 10, 2024. I could not accept the owner’s view that those encouraging race riots in Britain online should not be punished, his…
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Print this article POST 14 OF THE SERIES OF THE ODYSSEUS BLOG ON THE PACT ON MIGRATION & ASYLUM By Lieneke Slingenberg, Professor of Migrants and the Rule of Law, at the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Almost eight years since the Commission issued the proposal, the recast…
