EU Steps Forward

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EU Steps Forward

22.05.2025

Yahel Gerlic Rimon Weiss

Corporate accountability is increasingly recognized as essential in addressing the twin triple planetary crises of climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. As transnational corporations (TNCs) dominate global supply chains, their...

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Between a Soft and a Hard Place

20.05.2025

Cristina Elena Popa Tache Cătălin-Silviu Săraru

International financial governance is characterised by an increased proliferation of non-binding instruments (‘soft law’). The European Union (EU) stands out as an influential actor in this trend, both through the...

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Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns

The Processing of Health-Related Data in the Incoming European Travel Information and Authorisation System

11.02.2025

Francesca Tassinari

The European Travel Information and Authorisation System (ETIAS) requires visa-exempt third-country nationals (TCNs) to complete an online application form to enter the Schengen Area for a short-stay visit. While applicants...

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Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns

Under EUROSUR’s Watchful Eye

11.02.2025

Irene Baceiredo-Macho

The processing of migrants’ personal data by FRONTEX has raised many concerns over the past years, prompting the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) to investigate the matter on several occasions....

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Divergent Digital Futures

17.01.2025

Rudraksh Lakra

In the last decade, countries have made efforts at both regional and international levels to clarify their positions regarding the application of international law to information and communication technology in...

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The ECT’s Long Road to Modernisation

19.12.2024

Johannes Tropper

On 3 December 2024, the Energy Charter Conference (ECC) adopted the amendments to modernise the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT). It was concluded in the 1990s mainly to protect energy investments,...

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The Conundrum of the Komstroy Declaration

27.11.2024

Kartik Sharma

The European Union (EU) appears relieved by the CJEU’s Komstroy decision, viewing it as a means to exit all pending and future intra-EU arbitrations under the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT)....

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Die europäische Verteidigungspolitik am Scheideweg

18.11.2024

Kassandra Langguth

Der Aufstieg autoritärer, rechtsnationaler und/oder populistischer Parteien in den Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union hält schon seit mehreren Jahren an. Eine Stagnation dieser Entwicklung ist für die nahe Zukunft nicht abzusehen....

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Adding to the List

24.07.2024

Moritz Rhades

International support for Israel has been declining in light of the duration and scale of its military offensive in Gaza. Recent events have contributed to this trend, culminating in the...

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The EU’s ‘My Way or the Highway’ Approach?

09.03.2024

Kartik Sharma

The multilateral trading system continues to be in an uncertain state due to the ongoing Appellate Body crisis. The US has been incessantly blocking new judicial appointments over systemic concerns...

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Extraordinary, Extraterritorially

13.12.2023

Moritz Rhades

It is well known that the European Union (EU) uses its economic levers to maximize pressure on the Russian Federation. In order to reach its goals, the EU not merely...

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The ICJ’s Only Friend in Ukraine v. Russia

07.10.2022

Alexander Melzer

On 18 August 2022, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’ or ‘the Court’) issued a press statement announcing that the European Union (‘EU’ or the ‘Union’) had furnished the Court...

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Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges

The dark side of digitalization

30.11.2016

Cristina Verones

It is difficult to imagine today’s world without digitalization. We are shopping online, write messages to our friends on WhatsApp, let the world know what we think about a newly...