Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic has, undoubtedly, been one of the greatest challenges humanity has faced in the last century. To date, there have been over 14 million confirmed

cases, over 3 million confirmed deaths, and 223 countries affected. In addition to this overwhelmingly tragic health crisis however, the pandemic – or better, the [...]

On 2 March 2021, the German Constitutional Court (GCC) rejected an application by the Left-wing parliamentary group DIE LINKE (‘The Left’) as inadmissible. The Left group

had filed a complaint against a statement made by the Bundestag (the German Parliament) on 22 September 2016. [...]

Is there an unwritten rule mandating that we read all Advocate Generals’ Opinions opening with a quote from the Game of Thrones (GoT)? If not, it is high time we adopted

one. [...]

The draft Artificial Intelligence Regulation proposed by the European Commission on 21 April 2021 was eagerly anticipated. Its provisions on facial recognition to an even greater

degree, given the heated debate going on in the background between those who support a general ban of this technology in public spaces and those who consider that [...]

                  Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Centre for European Law. Trygve Harlem Losnedahl, Doctoral Research

Fellow at the University of Oslo, Centre for European Law. [...]

Background facts  With a decision issued on the 15th April 2021, the German Federal Constitutional Court (GFCC) declined the request for preliminary injunction against the

promulgation of the domestic act ratifying the 2020 Own Resources Decision (ORD), on which the activation of Next Generation EU (NGEU) depends. [...]

Markus Frischhut*, Jean Monnet Professor, Chair on EU law, ethics and values, Innsbruck, Austria   Technical developments, especially biotechnological inventions in the 1990s,

have led to increasing references in EU law to non-legal concepts such as ‘ethics’ (Frischhut, 2015). [...]

Since its establishment in 2003, Eurodac (European Dactyloscopy System) has played a fundamental role in the digitisation of migration management and border security in the

EU. The Eurodac database contains the fingerprints of all asylum applicants and migrants apprehended in connection with an irregular border crossing. [...]

  Raphaël Gellert, Marvin van Bekkum, and Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius - Dr. Gellert is assistant professor of law, at the iHub, Radboud University, The Netherlands (Twitter:

@gellertraphael) [...]

In what seems like a breath of fresh air for the Polish constitutional landscape, the Court of Justice recently reaffirmed its vital role in safeguarding the founding principles

of EU law in its judgment in C-824/18 A.B. and others v the KRS. On 2 March 2021, the Grand Chamber delivered another verdict that touches upon the rule of law crisis [...]