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Brekke et al. on How the Quest for Efficiency is Transforming Judicial Cooperation in Europe

In January 2023, Stein Brekke, Researcher in the Department of Political Science, Daniel Naurin, Professor of Political Science, Urska Sadl, Part-time Professor in the Department of Law, and Lucía López Zurita, Researcher at the European University Institute (EUI), published an … Continue reading

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The EU’s accession to the ECHR: Negotiations concluded at technical level in March 2023

Introduction On 31 March 2023, the Council of Europe published a Press release named ‘Major progress on the path to EU accession to the ECHR: Negotiations concluded at the technical level in Strasbourg’. The so-called ’46+1 Group’ (the Group), which … Continue reading

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Cisco Webex services – The new tool for the protection of personal data

Introduction In July 2023, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) announced in its press release No 128/23 that a decision had been reached upon whether or not the Cisco Webex videoconferencing and related services by the Court of Justice (CJEU) … Continue reading

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DX v Instituto Nacional de la Seguridad Social (INSS), Tesorería General de la Seguridad Social (TGSS), Case C‑113/22, 14 September 2023

Facts of the case In this case, Mr.DX, the father of two children, applied to the Spanish social security system for payment of an absolute permanent invalidity benefit, which he was awarded. However, he had not expressly requested, nor was … Continue reading

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Advocate General opinion in case C-261/22, the European arrest warrant and a mother’s right to family life, and the best interest of a child

Background In 2020, a Belgian court issued a European arrest warrant (EAW) against a woman (GN) who was sentenced to five years imprisonment. A few months later, GN was arrested in Bologna (Italy). At that time, GN’s children were living … Continue reading

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Panov on EU Fundamental Rights, the Foundational Value of the Rule of Law and Judicial Response to the Rule of Law Backsliding

Introduction Stoyan Panov is a lecturer in International Law and European Union law at University College Freiburg, University of Freiburg. In February 2023, he published an article in the Nordic Journal of European Law (vol. 6 (1), p. 60-88) titled … Continue reading

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Spieker on mobilizing democratic values described in Article 2 TEU through Article 10 TEU

Introduction Luke Dimitrios Spieker, a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public and International Law in Heidelberg, published a conference paper in June 2023 in the volume The Rule of Law in the EU: Crisis and … Continue reading

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