Recently, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance shocked Europe with his speech at the Munich Security Conference, signalling a diminishing sense of shared values between the U.S. and Europe. This was further reinforced by last Friday’s press conference in Washington, where a row between President Trump and President Zelensky confirmed that America’s commitment as leader of … Read more
Today, Finance Watch, a non-profit association dedicated to reforming finance in the interest of European citizens, published a ground-breaking report: ‘Artificial intelligence in finance: how to trust a black box?‘ authored by its Chief Economist Thierry Philipponnat. As AI-powered systems increasingly drive financial decision-making in areas such as credit assessments, insurance pricing and investment products, … Read more
On February 27, 2025, the CJEU delivered an important judgment on the interpretation of Article 15(1)(h) and Article 22 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on General Data Protection (GDPR) in C-203/22 CK Magistrat der Stadt Wien v Dun & Bradstreet Austria GmbH. The facts The mobile phone operator refused CK’s request to conclude or extend the mobile telephone contract for a monthly … Read more
In a single paragraph, at page four of the recent ‘Competitiveness Compass’, the European Commission briefly presents the ‘28th legal regime’. The latter is an additional, optional legal framework that is meant to provide ‘a single, harmonised set of EU-wide rules’, ‘including any relevant aspects of corporate law, insolvency, labour and tax law’. This legal … Read more
I. HALLUCINATING TRUTHS Think of Open AI’s ChatGPT inferring an individual’s birth-date or bibliography incorrectly, Google’s Bard erroneously reporting a member of the Dutch Christian-Democratic party as running to be leader of another political party or more recent concerns voiced about the factual accuracy of DeepSeek’s answers. These are all instances of a widely reported … Read more
