Call For Submissions – European Law Blogger Prize 2024
The Editorial Board of the European Law Blog is pleased to announce its first European Law Blogger Prize to celebrate the launch of its new website at beginning of September 2024. The €300 prize will be awarded to the early-career author of the best blog post submitted
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The AI Act and a (sorely missing!) right to AI individualization; Why are we building Skynet?
Blogpost 37/2024
The industry has tricked us; Scientists and regulators have failed us. AI is developing not individually (as humans become individuals) but collectively. A huge collective hive to collect, store and process all of humanity’s information; a single entity (or a few, interoperability as an open issue today as their operation itself) to process…
Vienna calling (Luxembourg) – About the admissibility of an Action for Annulment of the Nature Restoration Law
Blogpost 36/2024
This blogpost is dedicated to legal questions arising from the ongoing ‘coalition crisis’ in Austria, following Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler’s decision to vote in favour of the Regulation on Nature Restoration despite the opposing will of Austria’s Chancellor Karl Nehammer and 7 out of 9 Regional Governments(Bundesländer). While Nehammer is of…
The man in “entry 36”: legitimate expectations, legal certainty and economic sanctions.
Blogpost 35/2024
Disclosure: the author was a member of the Applicant’s counsel team
Introduction
This post concerns a question which ought to be of concern to all who practise in or study EU law: does the EU administrative law acquis provide the Union’s courts with the tools they need to supervise the exercise of…
Predictive Policing in the AI Act: meaningful ban or paper tiger?
Blogpost 34/2024
After years of anticipation, the final text of the Artificial Intelligence Act (‘the Act’) was approved by the Council on May 21st of this year. The landmark regulation, first of its kind, positions the EU at the forefront of the global effort to establish a comprehensive legal framework on artificial intelligence. The Act…
Evading the European Media Freedom Act: Examining Public and Private Control of Media Organs in Hungary and Italy
Blogpost 33/2024
The state of media pluralism around the world stands at one of its most transformative points in modern history. The development of new technologies and the impact of social media platforms have radically reshaped society. Governments around the world have responded in kind. According to Freedom House, governments have shifted from open, laissez-faire…
Regulating the Virtual World as a new State
Blogpost 32/2024
The European Commission has recently published an initiative that aims to regulate virtual worlds and Web 4.0 which is structured around the objectives of the Digital Decade policy programme. Virtual reality (VR) is a relatively old concept that was introduced primarily through gaming environments but given a new meaning through the introduction of…
The Complex Landscape of Asylum Border Procedures in the new Asylum Procedures Regulation
Blogpost 31/2024
At the heart of the negotiations for the New Pact on Migration and Asylum lies one of its most contentious elements: the regulation of border procedures. During the Council negotiations, the Asylum Procedures Regulation (APR) underwent significant modifications, particularly in the provisions that regulate border procedures, to incorporate perspectives from all Member States.…
LGBTIQA+ Equality Ahead of EU Elections: How Many Steps Forward?
Blogpost 30/2024
The history of EU institutions is marked by a long list of statements and political initiatives that endorse the legal claims of the LGBTIQA+ community (see, for instance, Kollman and Bell). Over the past decades, these have gradually been mainstreamed within different areas of EU law. Particularly, the current EU legislative term…
Does the EU’s MiFIR Review make single-name credit default swaps transparent enough?
Blogpost 29/2024
Regulation 2024/791 (“MiFIR Review”) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 8 March 2024. This newly adopted legislation requires single-name credit default swaps (CDSs) to be made subject to transparency rules, only however if they reference global systemically important banks (G-SIBS) or those referencing an index comprised…