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An Unwarranted Free Pass for Extra-EU ISDS?
On 31 July 2025, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht or ‘BVerfG’) delivered a decision that revived interest in the German Federal Court of Justice’s (Bundesgerichtshof or ‘BGH’) ruling of 12 October 2023 on the compatibility of investor-State dispute settlement (‘ISDS
#CourtOfJusticeOfTheEuropeanUnion #EuropeanLaw #Germany
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/an-unwarranted-free-pass-for-extra-eu-isds/
We're looking forward to two DiSCourse Seminars with guest speakers from the Netherlands and Finland:
📅 Mon, 23 March, 15:00
💡The Right to a Human Explanation of Algorithmic Decision-Making
👩 Melanie Fink, Leiden University
🔗 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-fink/
📅 Fri, 27 March, 12:00
💡 Narrative Detection in Political Talk. Bringing together Computational Recognition and Narrative Theory
👩 Mari Hatavara, Tampere University
🔗 https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/disc/events/discourse-hatavara/
New on our blog!
Courageous or Naïve about the Reparations Loan for Ukraine?
The widely discussed (see here and here) legal basis for EU’s executive economic measures enshrined in Article 122(1) TFEU is commonly referred to as an “emergency clause”. Once again, this legal basis was eyed for a novel purpose, and one which seems to be the most delicate yet: a reparatio
https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/courageous-or-naive-about-the-reparations-loan-for-ukraine/
🎓 Jetzt für den Humboldt LL.M. bewerben! Ab Oktober 2026 ein Jahr in Berlin deutsches & europäisches Recht auf Englisch studieren – an einer international vernetzten und forschungsstarken Fakultät.
🗓️ Bewerbungsfrist: 28. Februar 2026
Infos zum Programm findest du hier 👉 https://humboldt-llm.hu-berlin.de
Bei Fragen: [email protected]
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Moving Beyond “Berlin Plus”
As Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine in 2022, Europe was reminded that peace on this continent could no longer be taken for granted. Russian production figures for main battle tanks have roughly tripled over the last three years. This reality highlights the essential role of a robust EU–NATO partnership in addressing the escalating military
The Cloud and AI Development Act 'should embed a sovereignty provision that curtails the current “sovereignty-washing” practiced by US hyperscalers in partnership with European firms. Here, sovereignty means fostering genuine competence and capacity inside the Union, rather than relying on complex legal tricks that depend on foreign-controlled technology.'
https://www.techpolicy.press/europe-cant-defend-democracy-on-us-servers/ by Alexandra Geese, MEP (The Greens)
#EuroStack #security #independence #EU #EuropeanLaw #socialMedia #decoupling #nonAligned #EuropeAlternatives #EuropeanAlternatives #nonUS #digitalSovereignty #techSovereignty #dataSovereignty #sovereignty #privacy #dataProtection #dataCenters #energy #dataCentres #BuyEurope #BuyEuropean #Cloud #EUPol #EuropeanPolitics
A hot conversation I overheard with people from work… WhatsApp might start charging you for using it… and there’s a potential new law that European governments are allowed to read all your messages, including those on apps like Signal.
Signal has announced that they will leave Europe if this law takes effect.
Of course, I need to know what we can do about this to keep our privacy… or is this the end of our free speech?
Would Threema and Wire be affected as well?
#WhatsApp
#PrivacyConcerns
#Signal
#FreeSpeech
#Threema
#Wire
#EuropeanLaw
The Austrian Federal Administrative Court has confirmed that the "Pay or Okay" consent model violates European data protection laws, delivering a significant ruling against leading newspaper DerStandard.at on August 18, 2025.
Job - Alert 🎓
⚖️ Postdoctoral Researcher / Senior Research Fellow (m/f/d)
Deadline: 2025-06-30
Location: Germany, München, Bayern
https://www.academiceurope.com/job/?id=7735
#hiring #Postdoc #LegalResearch #TaxLaw #CorporateLaw #PhD #businesslaw #Europeanlaw
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