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By Elisabeth, Furat, Joseph and Matthew Europol’s Accountability: Tension Between Secrecy and Supervision This blogpost addresses the tension between effective policing and democratic oversight in the context of Europol’s extensive data collection used for ‘predictive policing’. This practice raises questions about the balance between security and individual privacy rights in the digital age. This blogpost…
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Der kommenden Woche sehe ich mit einiger Aufgeregtheit entgegen. Das hat mehrere Gründe: Zum einen wird am Freitag mein neues Theaterstück „Ein Volksbürger“ uraufgeführt, mit Fabian Hinrichs in der Hauptrolle und unter der Regie von Nicola Hümpel von Nico and the Navigators. Es geht, wie schon beim „Volkskanzler“, um ein Szenario: Angenommen, es käme einer…
Trust between the EU and the UK is in short supply. This poses risks to British-European security relations, writes Gijs de Vries (LSE). As Brexit unfolds, three issues, in particular, may give rise to tensions: data protection, human rights, and external security cooperation. While the ink on the 2020 EU-UK Trade and Cooperation agreement…
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The European Union (EU) has been at the forefront of the global push towards digital transformation, adopting a plethora of digital regulations aimed at fostering innovation, ensuring economic growth and competitiveness, and safeguarding fundamental rights. As we move into the next legislative cycle, the EU Council – under the leadership of the Belgian presidency –…
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The situation is Western Sahara has already been addressed by numerous authors (here, here and here) and formed the subject of analysis in a plethora of international forums. Nevertheless, almost five decades have elapsed since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) famously stated in its Western Sahara Advisory Opinion that the people of the Territory…
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In an earlier post on this blog (here), I commenced my analysis of the recognition of professional qualifications of migrants at work in the EU by describing and reflecting upon those provisions of EU migration and asylum law governing such recognition. In this blog post, I complete my analysis of qualification recognition by describing and…
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The Power to Organise an Independence Referendum The Scottish Parliament has had the power to enact primary legislation from the very beginning. Its legislative powers are defined negatively. According to section 29 of Scotland Act 1998, it has residual powers over the legislative competences that are not explicitly allocated to Westminster. The latter include the…
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Hugo Partouche, Attorney-at-law (avocat) at the Paris Bar, and Chloé Berthélémy, Senior Policy Advisor, EDRi Photo credit: hacker-silhoutte, via Wikimedia commons *A first version of this article was published in French by Actualité Juridique (AJ) Pénal, Dalloz Revues here. On 30 April 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)…
I had the opportunity to participate in the Inaugural AI Commercial Lifecycle and Procurement Summit 2024 hosted by Curshaw. This was a very interesting ‘unconference’ where participants offered to lead sessions on topics they wanted to talk about. I led a session on ‘Creating friction in AI procurement’. This was clearly a counterintuitive way of…
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