When AI Rules Diverge
23.04.2026
AI regulation is splitting across major jurisdictions. This post examines divergent AI regulations across jurisdictions, particularly in the EU, US, and China, and how such divergence generates compliance costs, liability uncertainty, and...
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From Ambition to Dilution?
26.03.2026
Ysaline Reid
Gauthier Michiels
On 25 October 2025, the European Commission (‘EC’) put forth a proposal to amend the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation 2023/115 (‘EUDR’). After two months of negotiations at the European Union...
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To Regulate or Not to Regulate?
19.01.2026
The Digital Omnibus Regulation Proposal and the Digital Omnibus on AI Regulation Proposal, both presented on 19 November by the European Commission, are certain to attract substantial attention from commentators...
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Sicherheit um jeden Preis?
26.11.2025
Die aktuelle Diskussion über die „EU-Chatkontrolle“ verdeutlicht ein zentrales Spannungsfeld des Sicherheitsrechts: Was als Maßnahme zum besseren Schutz von Kindern vor sexualisierter Gewalt vorgeschlagen wurde, ist zu einem Streitpunkt über...
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EU Steps Forward
22.05.2025
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
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
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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- Advanced Digital Technologies in Migration Management: Data Protection and Fundamental Rights Concerns
AI and Asylum in the EU Legal Framework
10.02.2025
In recent years, the European Union’s asylum system has seen the gradual integration of AI tools aimed at streamlining certain processes optimizing workflows. Since the stakes in asylum cases are...
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Divergent Digital Futures
17.01.2025
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
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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Eurocentrism in Ukraine’s Ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
16.12.2024
Ukraine’s ratification of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (hereinafter, the ICC Statute) has reignited the war of words over the pros and cons of this decision. Domestically,...
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The Conundrum of the Komstroy Declaration
27.11.2024
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
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
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
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
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
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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The Energy Charter Treaty and its (in)compatibility with EU law
17.12.2020
Belgium is on the move again. After having submitted a request to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) for an opinion on the compatibility of the Comprehensive...
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- Rights of Nature: Obstacles and Challenges
The dark side of digitalization
30.11.2016
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...
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