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* By Matthias Hermes, Reza Khabook, Frederic Kupsch, Angelika Nußberger and Nikos Vogiatzis In February 2024, the Academy for European Human Rights Protection, University of Cologne and Essex Law School, University of Essex jointly organised and funded a workshop titled “Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR: A Workshop for Early Career Researchers”….

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How European Leaders’ Obsequiousness Threatens Europe’s Security and Undermines International Law Reflecting on the June 24-25 NATO summit in The Hague – one day after the 80th anniversary of the signing of the UN Charter –, it is difficult not to be overwhelmed by a sense of failure and depression. During the NATO Summit, the…

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40 years since Portugal joined the European Union(or about Constante’s refusal to jump, the dog from José Saramago’s “The Stone Raft”) Pedro Madeira Froufe [Editor of this blog and Coordinator of the Group “Studies in European Union Law” (CEDU), of JUSGOV – Research Centre for Justice and Governance, University of Minho)] I Forty years ago,…

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Yesterday, the CJEU issued a new judgment in the Swiss franc mortgage loans and their unfair contract terms saga, following a referral from a Polish court, in the case known as Lubreczlik (C-396/24). The referral was based on two cases, in which consumers concluded mortgage loans indexed to the Swiss franc rate. In both cases consumers claimed…

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