


Future Of Europe
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The EU Sustainability Directive and Jurisdiction (Part I.)
The Draft for a Corporate Sustainable Due Diligence Directive currently contains no rules on jurisdiction. This creates inconsistencies between the scope of application of the Draft Directive and existing jurisdictional law, both on the EU level and on the domestic
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The EU Victims Rights Directive: A Milestone or Stepping Stone?
The EU Victims’ Rights Directive has been lauded as a landmark achievement in the protection of victim’s rights, setting minimum standards to harmonize victim support across the member states. But its implementation raises questions about whether it represents a milestone
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A Fundamentally Unsound Approach to Fundamental Rights Protection? Where Directive 2019/1 Went Wrong in Empowering National Competition Authorities
There are a number of anticompetitive practices in the European Union (EU), both agreements (Article 101 TFEU) and abuses of dominant positions (Article 102 TFEU). The EU competition law infringements are tackled either by the EU Commission or national competition
European Values
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The EU’s Competitiveness Compass: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly?
The European Commission has unveiled its Competitiveness Compass—a five-year blueprint to boost innovation and strengthen Europe’s economy—which gets the diagnosis right but prescribes the wrong cure. While it rightly flags excessive red tape, lagging innovation, and strategic vulnerabilities to China
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Life as a Minority – New Slovakian Language Law Draft Endangering Hungarian Minorities in Slovakia?
Since decades, minority language usage has been a heavily debated topic Europe-wide. Language is considered the core of cultural identity helping the preservation of heritage, tradition and customs. The importance of minority language usage has caused reason for misunderstanding due
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Defining the “constitutional self” in Montenegro
It seems that in no country does the reveal of the population census results attract as much public attention as in Montenegro. On the 15th of October 2024, top TV stations in Montenegro streamed the long-awaited release of the results
Tech & AI
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The Secret of ChatGPT: Why Does It Lag Far Behind the Agentic Systems of the (Near) Future?
In a previous post, we have already explained in broad and rather abstract terms the capabilities promised by agentic AI systems. Now we will (in a slightly lighter tone) look at the capabilities that perhaps one of the most popular
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2024: Breakthroughs in AI – Innovation, Competition, and the Transformation of Society – Part II.
One of the most striking trends of 2024 was the rapid advance of multimodal Artificial Intelligence. The evolution of technology has gone far beyond text processing: the latest versions of ChatGPT, such as the 4o model and the version with
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2024: Breakthroughs in AI – Innovation, Competition and the Transformation of Society – Part I.
2024 has proven to be a landmark in the world of Artificial Intelligence, with a series of exciting innovations and milestones reshaping industries, the way humans and machines work together, and setting new standards in many areas. Now, at the
Free Speech & Privacy
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TikTok vs. USA: A New Chapter in First Amendment Accountability
In our blog, we have previously explored in detail the dispute between TikTok and the U.S. regarding the platform's potential ban. In December, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the law that forces TikTok’s Chinese parent company,
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Foreign Influence, Censorship, and Free Speech as an Individual Right
Efforts to resist censorship motivated by foreign influence must account for the importance of free speech to the individual. Noah C. Chauvin Foreign efforts to influence domestic politics in a number of European states have led to a range of efforts to
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Darling, Your Consent, S’il Te Plaît—a Short Summary and a Brief Critical Assessment of the French Sharenting Law
A newborn being introduced to the world for the first time—live-streamed on Instagram. A toddler’s—seemingly—gratuitous tantrum filmed and shared with thousands for laughs. A preteen’s medical diagnosis detailed in a heartfelt post for “support and prayers”. A child’s first bath