The Commission’s mission to downgrade wolf protection Killing wolves must be made easier. That is the gist of a proposal, filed by the European Commission on 7 March 2025, to amend the appendices of the Habitats Directive. The amendment would remove the strictly protected Annex IV status which wolves currently enjoy in most Member States, … Read more
On Tuesday this week, the European Court of Justice rendered two judgments (here and here) on whether Article 22 TFEU gives mobile EU citizens the right to join a national party in order to exercise effectively their right to stand in municipal and European elections. The Court’s judgments are groundbreaking. However, this is not because … Read more
Summaries of judgments made in collaboration with the Portuguese judges and référendaire of the General Court (Maria José Costeira, Ricardo Silva Passos and Esperança Mealha) Judgment of the General Court (Third Chamber, Extended Composition) 18 December 2024, Case T-776/22 TP v Commission Public procurement – Financial Regulation – Exclusion from the proceedings of awarding of … Read more
João Pedro Sousa (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of the University of Minho) 1. Introduction Protecting personal data is a cornerstone of the European Union (EU) legal framework, safeguarded by Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (CFREU) and Article 16 of the Treaty … Read more
The current events in the US, especially the takeover of executive branches by the non-elected private citizen Elon Musk, rightfully described as an “AI Coup”, left legal scholars and other constitutional experts in a state of shocked disbelief. From a European perspective, many consider such a development unthinkable. However, we should not be too certain … Read more
