When the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic swept through Italy, the country looked outside its borders and received aid from two major world powers: China and the United States. Giulia Sciorati and Frank Maracchione show that this historical moment offers a compelling case study of how international aid can dramatically shift public opinion in … Read more
Technology is seen as critical in ensuring data privacy, particularly as more organizations adopt cloud-based solutions for sensitive workloads. By exploring the use of confidential computing, Core42 and AMD aim to address the increasing demand for secure, compliant cloud infrastructures, especially in regions with strict data sovereignty regulations. The collaboration is timely, as the UAE … Read more
Do European fiscal rules make it easier for governments to “sell” spending cuts to their voters? Drawing on a survey experiment in Italy, Alessia Aspide finds such rules have little impact on domestic support for austerity policies. The NextGenerationEU initiative, launched amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with its focus on investments, represented a ground-breaking departure from … Read more
The UK Government has recently published its official response (the ‘response’) to the public consultation of March 2023 on its ‘pro-innovation approach’ to AI regulation (for an initial discussion, see here). The response shows very little movement from the original approach and proposals and, despite claiming that significant developments have already taken place, it mainly … Read more
On 11 April 2024, AG Campos Sánchez-Bordona delivered his Opinion in NFŠ (C-28/23, EU:C:2024:306). The NFŠ Opinion is very interesting in three respects. First, in addressing some aspects of the definition of public works contracts that keep coming up in litigation in relation to relatively complex real estate transactions. Second, in addressing the effects of … Read more
