And yet, a common question seems to be asked: in the face of authoritarian determinism, what can be saved of the democratic process? Until when does it make sense to hold on? For some historians, in ...

This is the conflict – a “no win” – in which progressives experience the Court’s current engagements with these issues.

In this regard, it seems commonplace to remark that an association agreement concluded by the EU can only be suspended through unanimity in the Council (see e.g. here, here and here ). This assumption ...

But while satellite dependency may be enough to turn the tide of a battle, it is nothing compared to the truly frightening reliance on cloud computing providers. A handful of American tech giants ...

On 10 July 2025, the European Commission published the final version of its Code of Practice for General-Purpose AI (GPAI) – a voluntary rulebook developed by a group of independent experts and more ...

With Like Company v Google, the first groundbreaking AI copyright case is now headed to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). In this case, a Hungarian press publisher challenges Google ...

I had the honour of being awarded an honorary doctorate in law by the Faculty of Law at the University of Münster. I was ...

However, the Court drew an important distinction: the confiscation did not serve to “prevent the illicit acquisition of property through criminal” acts but to “preserve integrity in public office by ...

Russia ceased engaging with the Court in March 2022, in the context of its expulsion from the Council of Europe in the wake of its war of aggression. Elsewhere, international proceedings between ...

This decision, aka the F-35 carve out, was based on advice from the Defence Secretary and the Foreign Secretary. According to the Defence Secretary, due to the nature of the partnership laid down in ...

Scholars of authoritarianism discuss two “soft guardrails” of democracy: 1) “mutual toleration” — a shared understanding that people and parties with different views and values must respect one ...

First, İmamoğlu’s university diploma, a constitutional requirement for presidential eligibility, was revoked by an administrative decision of the university president’s office. The very next day, ...