29 January 2024/ By Gesa Kübek and Jonas Bornemann Blogpost 6/2024 Is gender-based violence against women a ground for granting refugee protection under international and EU law? The European Court of Justice (ECJ) essentially addressed this question last week in Case C-621/21, Women who are Victims of Domestic Violence. The…
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25 January 2024/ By Maria Magierska Blogpost 5/2024 On 7 December 2023, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued two landmark rulings against the German credit scoring agency SCHUFA. Both decisions significantly strengthen the rights of a data subject under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in several substantive and…
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23 January 2024/ By Maria Grazia Porcedda Blogpost 4/2024 When the Bulgarian National Revenue Agency (Natsionalna agentsia za prihodite or the ‘NAP’) suffered a malicious data leak in 2019, it joined the growing ranks of organizations affected by cyberattacks. With security often being an afterthought in cyberspace, data breaches have…
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Blogpost 3/2024 While pesticides are argued to be paramount to food security, their pollution poses serious threats to biodiversity, human health, and medium to long-term food security. The alarm bells regarding these risks have been around since the sixties, most notably in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Yet, over the last…
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16 January 2024/ By Ingo Venzke and Laurens Ankersmit By Ingo Venzke & Laurens Ankersmit Blogpost 2/2024 Introduction It is hard to overlook the pervasive influence of advertising that encourages unsustainable behaviour and consumption. As we roam the streets of Amsterdam, every other billboard invites us to escape the drizzling, grey…
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15 January 2024/ By Nicholas Franssen Blogpost 1/2024 Disclaimer: The views in this blog are strictly personal and do not in any way represent an official position of the Dutch government. Judging by the image of a visibly delighted EPPO employee posted on LinkedIn, the mood at 11 Avenue John…
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22 December 2023/ By Editorial Board As we reach the end of 2023, we would like to present the European Law Blog’s top ten most-read blog posts of the year. This list of top ten provides us with the opportunity to celebrate the most popular blog posts, to offer an…
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21 December 2023/ By Lisette Mustert Blogpost 58/2023 On 6 September of this year, the General Court declared the European Data Protection Supervisor’s (EDPS) action to annul two provisions laid down in the new Europol Regulation inadmissible (T-578/22). These two provisions retroactively legalise unlawful data processing activities by the EU…
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Blogpost 50/2023 This blogpost only reflects the views of their authors and not the organisations they represent. Introduction In his second Opinion on the HADOPI case (C-470/21) (short for: Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des œuvres et la protection des droits sur internet), the Advocate General Szpunar seemingly suggests that…
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12 December 2023/ By Charlie Bennett Blogpost 53/2023 An asset with a ‘dual-use’ nature is relatively simple in theory – it is an asset that inherently has the potential for both civilian and military applications simultaneously. Nowhere is this a more prominent feature than in the space industry, within which…