Professor Colin Murray, University of Newcastle, and Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Zairon, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction The latest spat between the UK and Ireland over the knock-on consequences of the UK’s Rwanda policy exposes the tangled web of EU law and Common Travel Area (CTA) arrangements which now cover the interactions between both countries’ immigration policies. This post considers these interactions and proposals of the Irish Government to legislate in light of the Irish High Court decision in A v Minister for Justice ..read more

  Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway, University of London Photo credit: Sam Zidovetski, via Wikimedia Commons Just before Christmas, the European Parliament and the Council (the EU body consisting of Member States’ ministers) reached a deal on five key pieces of EU asylum legislation, concerning asylum procedures, the ‘Dublin’ system on responsibility for asylum applications, the ‘Eurodac’ database supporting the Dublin system, screening of migrants/asylum seekers, and derogations in the event of crises. These five laws joined the previously agreed revised laws on qua ..read more

  Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway, University of London Photo credit: Ggia, via Wikimedia Commons Just before Christmas, the European Parliament and the Council (the EU body consisting of Member States’ ministers) reached a deal on five key pieces of EU asylum legislation, concerning asylum procedures, the ‘Dublin’ system on responsibility for asylum applications, the ‘Eurodac’ database supporting the Dublin system, screening of migrants/asylum seekers, and derogations in the event of crises. These five laws joined the previously agreed revised laws on qualification ..read more

  Catherine Jacqueson, Professor of EU law and Alberto Barrio, post-doc on the WorkWel-project, Law Faculty, University of Copenhagen Photo credit: conceptphoto.info, via Flickr  Finally, the European Parliament formally adopted the directive protecting platform work on 24 April. It still needs to be formally endorsed by the Council too, but this is more a matter of procedure. Against all odds and at the very last minute, the Directive made it through the legislative rollercoaster. It was the Council which was holding back. It therefore came as a surprise that the Council adopted ..read more

  Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Rock Cohen, via Wikimedia Commons Just before Christmas, the European Parliament and the Council (the EU body consisting of Member States’ ministers) reached a deal on five key pieces of EU asylum legislation, concerning asylum procedures, the ‘Dublin’ system on responsibility for asylum applications, the ‘Eurodac’ database supporting the Dublin system, screening of migrants/asylum seekers, and derogations in the event of crises. These five laws joined the previously agreed revised laws on qualific ..read more

  Dimitrios Kyriazis (DPhil, Oxon), Assistant Professor in EU Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Photo credit: Bela Geletneky, via Wikimedia Commons   In ClientEarth v Council (Joined Cases T-682/21 and T-683/21), the General Court (GC) heard an action for annulment brought by ClientEarth AISBL (and Ms Leino-Sandberg) against a decision by the Council of the EU refusing access to certain documents requested on the basis of the Public Access to Documents Regulation (1049/2001) and the Aarhus Convention Regulation (1367/2006). The GC found a ..read more

Alessandra Fratini and Giorgia Lo Tauro, Fratini Vergano European Lawyers Photo credit:     1 Introduction The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) institutionalises the tasks and responsibilities of ‘trusted flaggers’, key actors in the online platform environment, that have existed, with roles and functions of variable scope, since the early 2000. The newly applicable regime fits with the rationale and aims pursued by the DSA (Article 1): establishing a targeted set of uniform, effective and proportionate mandatory rules at Union level to safeguard and improve the functioning of the in ..read more

      Mattis van ’t Schip & Frederik Zuiderveen Borgesius* *Both authors work at the iHub and the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences, Radboud University, The Netherlands - mattis.vantschip[at]ru.nl & frederikzb[at]cs.ru.nl Photo credit: Gzen92, on wikimedia commons    In a judgment from February 2024 in the case Podchasov v. Russia, the European Court of Human Rights emphasised the role of encryption in protecting the right to privacy. The judgment comes at a time where encryption is central to many legal debates across the world. In this b ..read more

  Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Rachmaninoff, via Wikimedia Commons Just before Christmas, the European Parliament and the Council (the EU body consisting of Member States’ ministers) reached a deal on five key pieces of EU asylum legislation, concerning asylum procedures, the ‘Dublin’ system on responsibility for asylum applications, the ‘Eurodac’ database supporting the Dublin system, screening of migrants/asylum seekers, and derogations in the event of crises. These five laws joined the previously agreed revised laws on qualification of ..read more

    Anurag Deb, PhD researcher, Queens University Belfast, and Colin Murray, Professor of Law, Newcastle Law School Photo credit: Aaronward, via Wikicommons media Extensive provisions of an Act of Parliament have been disapplied by a domestic court in the UK for the first time since Brexit. That is, in itself, a major development, and one which illustrates the power of the continuing connections between the UK and EU legal orders under the Withdrawal Agreement. It is an outcome which took many by surprise, even though we have argued at length that the UK Government has consistentl ..read more