Image by Nikin from Pixabay In its jugment of 30 April 2024 (C-470/21), the Court of Justice of the European Union answered three questions referred by the French Administrative Supreme Court (‘Conseil d’Etat’), that can be summed up as follows: must Article 15(1) of Directive 2002/58 on privacy and electronic communications be interpreted as precluding…
FTC Announces Proposed Settlement with Security Camera Firm Over Alleged Data Security Failures and CAN-SPAM Violations On August 30, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed settlement with Verkada, a security camera firm, in connection with alleged data security failures and CAN-SPAM Act violations. Under the proposed order, Verkada will be required to implement…
As we go through summer I am trying to catch up with posts I did not find the time for sooner. Readers will know that they may want to keep an eye on my Twitter feed to keep up with recent developments. A failed forum non conveniens challenge in Lunn v Antarctic Logistics Centre International…
The role of the United Kingdom (“UK”), particularly London, and of the European Union (“EU”) in the landscape of investment arbitration has been a central topic of discussions during the London International Dispute Week 2024 (“LIDW”). This post aims to provide a non-exhaustive account of some of the events which tackled this theme. On the…
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Zur Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts in Sachen Ausschussvorsitz Mit dem Einzug der AfD-Fraktion in den Deutschen Bundestag hat die parlamentarische Praxis einen grundlegenden Wandel erfahren: Nicht nur der Ton der Debatten wird rauer, sondern auch die konsensuale Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Fraktionen fällt immer schwerer. Besonders deutlich zeigt sich das anhand der Besetzung parlamentarischer Ämter und Gremien….
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Print this article POST 12 OF THE SERIES OF THE ODYSSEUS BLOG ON THE PACT ON MIGRATION & ASYLUM By Dr Tamás Molnár*, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (Vienna), legal research officer – asylum, migration and borders; Corvinus University of Budapest, Department of International Relations, lecturer on international migration law Setting the scene: Why…
Last week, on May 30, the CJEU gave its judgment in the Conny case (C-400/22) elaborating on the requirement from Article 8 of the Consumer Rights Directive to clearly label an online obligation to pay on a website on a relevant button with the words ‘order with obligation to pay’ (or an equivalent of this)….
If any of you are interested in EU law litigation at national courts, the Court of Justice’s judgment in Eurobolt (C-644/17) is well worth your time. The question at stake concerns whether a national court can request information from an EU Institution in order to rule on the validity of an EU act. Needless to…
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To my mind, this ingenious cinematic moment has always been the best metaphor for the fate of the radical democratic left in Greece—always finding itself in a minority. As a young supporter of Synaspismos and later SYRIZA, I never thought that a party which was struggling to reach the threshold for parliamentary representation would become…
Brexit has removed the EU as an external support system that prevented devolution from escalating and undermining the union. In this edited extract from his new book, State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union, Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen) warns that the Conservative Party’s vision of the UK as a ‘unitary state’ might…
