Rekindling the ultra-vires debate? Most lawyers in the field of European Union law seem to have reached an (unspoken) consensus that breaches of the principle of conferral of powers (Art. 5(2) TEU) either do not occur or can not be successfully challenged before the ECJ anyway. Contrary to this, Advocate General (AG) Emiliou’s Opinion from … Read more
The European Data Protection Board Guidelines on pseudonymisation were adopted on January 16, 2025, and are open for consultation until February 28, 2025. The EDPB has been working on this piece of guidance for several years. Initially, they were intended to be part of a broader set of guidelines dedicated to both anonymisation and pseudonymisation, … Read more
Ana Cardoso (PhD candidate at the School of Law of University of Minho) I. The European Union (EU) is one of the most active actors in the field of environmental protection worldwide.[1] However, today some of the EU’s most important partners – namely the United States of America (USA) – have adopted highly protectionist positions[2] … Read more
Introduction On the 29th of January this year, the General Court dismissed the Irish Data Protection Commission’s (DPC) action seeking to annul parts of three decisions issued by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) (Joined Cases T-70/23, T-84/23, and T-111/23). In these decisions, the EDPB directed the DPC to expand its investigation into the data … Read more
Fueled by rapid technological advancements, demographic changes and shifting consumer expectations, the Life & Annuity industry is set for several transformative changes in 2025. Swiss Re forecasts average global real premium growth of 2.6% in 2025 and 2026, with life insurance projected to expand globally by 3% annually— more than twice the pace of the … Read more
