Blogpost 40/2022 On 24 August 2022, Italy was ordered by an international arbitral tribunal established under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) to pay EUR 240 million to the

English gas and oil company, Rockhopper. The reason for awarding damages to Rockhopper was Italy’s decision to prohibit further drilling for oil and gas within [...]

Blogpost 39/2022 1 by César Augusto Fontanillo López and Abdullah Elbi Synthetic data is attracting increasing attention from technicians and legal scholars in recent years.

This is especially noticeable among entities and people working on data-driven technologies, particularly in the artificial intelligence application development and [...]

Blogpost 38/2022 On 1 August 2022, in Case C-184/20, by responding to a referral procedure brought by the Regional Administrative Court of Vilnius, Lithuania, the Court of

Justice (hereinafter Court) addressed two prominent issues of data protection law, namely the balancing of transparency obligations with data protection rights, as [...]

Blogpost 37/2022 The European Commission proposed on 17 April 2018 the “E-Evidence” legislative package (E-Evidence) to overcome the widely discussed issues relating to

the traditional instruments for cross-border gathering of electronic evidence (K. [...]

The limited direct access of individuals to the CJEU is, and has been, the cause for much debate in EU law. However, in the recent Nord Stream 2 judgment, the Court of Justice

confirmed that it is not quite as limited as the General Court had laid it out to be in its 2020 order. [...]

Over the past year, the European Union’s ambitious digital regulatory agenda has steadily advanced. The EU adopted the far-reaching Digital Markets and Digital Services Acts,

and it is completing negotiations with the United States on a revised data transfer regime, christened the Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TADPF), that was [...]

Alessandra Fratini and Giorgia Lo Tauro – FratiniVergano, European Lawyers and – FratiniVergano, European Lawyers Photo credit: Martin Firrell, via Wikimedia Commons

Introduction [...]

              Anna Mosna, postdoctoral researcher at the Leuven Institute of Criminology (LINC), KU Leuven and Giulio Soana, Ph.D. candidate at Luiss University and

KU Leuven [...]

In our latest Saar Blueprint Maxime Dubreuil analyzes the CJEU-Judgment of 21. Dec. 2021 and the role it plays in protecting the EU fundamental values such as the Rule of Law

and the Primacy of EU Law. [...]