The use of algorithms by public administration is nothing new on the horizon. In 2019, Algorithm Watch started the project ‘Automating Society’, which has resulted in two
annual reports mapping the usage of ADM operations by Member States throughout the European Union (EU). [...]
With its recent judgment of 2 February 2021 the Grand Chamber of the CJEU has for the first time recognised the right to silence of natural persons during administrative investigations
concerning insider trading, when their answers may establish their liability for an offence punishable by administrative sanctions of a criminal nature or their criminal [...]
Lorna Woods, Professor of Internet Law, University of Essex Background Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the data protection Law Enforcement Directive
(LED) personal data may not be transferred outside the EU unless adequate safeguards are in place (eg via standard contractual clauses). [...]
Eleanor Sharpston QC, former Advocate-General of the CJEU Eleanor Sharpston QC, former Advocate-General of the CJEU Case C‑194/19 H.A. v État belge is a Grand
Chamber case which was allocated to me as Advocate General in 2019. As usual, my team and I worked on it thereafter in order to prepare an Opinion. [...]
Despite frustration with Polish legislation increasingly threatening the independence of the Polish judiciary and the political stalemate to act effectively upon it under Article
7 TEU, the CJEU in L and P (Joined Cases C-354/20 PPU and C-412/20 PPU) does not appear to cave in to any pressure. [...]
Patrícia Cabral, Legal Policy Officer, European Network on Statelessness* The enjoyment of LGBTIQ* rights varies across Europe, including the recognition of same-sex partnerships
or marriages and the recognition of legal parentage between children and those who raise them as parents – regardless of biology, gender or sexual orientation. [...]
On 3 December 2020, the CJEU issued an Advocate General’s Opinion on the Case C-559/19 European Commission v Kingdom of Spain, on the deterioration of the Doñana natural
area. This case deals with the interpretation of the Water Framework Directive and Habitats Directive for the protection of groundwater and connected wetlands. [...]
In an action for annulment in relation to Article 17 of the Directive on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market (Directive (EU) 790/2019, CDSM Directive),
currently pending before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the Republic of Poland argues that an obligation for specific online platforms leading [...]
Chris Nash, Director, European Network on Statelessness* Last week the European Network on Statelessness launched its detailed analysis of the EU Pact on Migration
and Asylum. Our commentary focuses on the impact the proposals set out by the European Commission in September (discussed hereand hereon this blog) would have on [...]
Western thinking tends to be linear; each moment, each chapter of life, each policy or each historical period is allegedly superseded by others thereby leading to the fading
of what preceded it. This succession is often accompanied by the (Western) belief in an upward move or in a more advanced dimension. [...]
