On February 20, 2025, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published its annual Tech Horizons Report (the “Report”), which explores four key technologies expected to play a significant role in society over the next two to seven years. These technologies include connected transport, quantum sensing and imaging, digital diagnostics and therapeutics, and synthetic media. The…
The extent and limits to the Commission’s duty to assess the compatibility of State aid measures with other rules of EU internal market law, and public procurement rules in particular, continues to heat up (see earlier comment here). According to the Court’s press release, today’s Opinion of AG Medina in Austria v Commission (Centrale nucléaire…
I am much pleased that Dr Brooke Marshall has accepted to write on CJEU Lastre for the blog. Dr Marshall has written the guiding volume on the issue (highlights of the book’s launch are here). True to form, her analysis below is as complete as it is on point, and a most excellent addition to…
Written by Ionel Zamfir. 8 March, International Women’s Day, is a good opportunity to take stock of progress and challenges for women’s rights and gender equality. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, adopted in 1995, at the fourth World Conference on Women, by 189 states and the EU…
I. HALLUCINATING TRUTHS Think of Open AI’s ChatGPT inferring an individual’s birth-date or bibliography incorrectly, Google’s Bard erroneously reporting a member of the Dutch Christian-Democratic party as running to be leader of another political party or more recent concerns voiced about the factual accuracy of DeepSeek’s answers. These are all instances of a widely reported…
Hungary has repeatedly threatened to block EU aid for Ukraine during the Russia-Ukraine war. Patrick Müller and Peter Slominski explain that this approach is indicative of a “hostage-taking” bargaining strategy in which the threat of a veto is used to gain concessions in other policy areas. Populist radical right parties in power have gone to…
This blog post is based on the book Van hard naar hart? Handhavers over de menselijke maat in de Participatiewet. This research is funded by the Gratama stichting. Introduction Over the past fifty years, enforcement of social security legislation in the Netherlands has been subject to big changes. The first change is from the assumption…
Dr Meltem Ineli Ciger, Associate Professor, Suleyman Demirel University Photo credit: Odessa Opera and Ballet Theatre, by Konstantin Brizhnichenko, via Wikimedia Commons On 27 February 2025, the Court of Justice delivered its judgment in Case C‑753/23 (Krasiliva). This is the second ruling on the Council Directive 2001/55/EC of 20 July 2001 (Temporary…
Editor: Ana Salinas (Universidad de Málaga) 1. Message of the President Dear ESIL Members, On behalf of all the members of the Board, I wish you all a wonderful new year. Our field, international law, has been in full swing in recent months, not only with important events, but also with political and governmental changes that are…
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Recurring breaches and non-enforcement of international law have persisted since the adoption of the UN Charter and the establishment of the post-World War II (WWII) legal order, which remains in place today. Scholars have repeatedly issued death certificates to Article 2.4 of the UN Charter and have raised fundamental questions about the weaknesses of this…
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