Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Mstyslav Chernov, via Wikimedia Commons Hamster idiom credit: Adam Sharp (Thanks to Zoe Gardner for discussion of the case; the following analysis is my own) Introduction Remember the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015-16? One part of the EU’s response to it was to negotiate a … 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
Yesterday was a big day for UK consumers when the new rules on compensating victims of authorised push payment fraud (APP fraud) came into force. APP fraud is when consumers are tricked into sending money to the fraudster. It can happen in various ways, e.g. via impersonation fraud, romance fraud or email takeover fraud. The … Read more
Meta cannot target a user’s sexual orientation in its personalized ads — even if they are openly queer and make public statements about the subject, the European Union’s highest court ruled Friday. The case was brought from longtime Meta antagonist Max Schrems, as Wired reports. The Austrian activist, whose separate privacy case recently led to … Read more
Alessandra Fratini and Giorgia Lo Tauro, FratiniVergano European Lawyers Photo credit: Namakkalshowroom, via Wikimedia Commons Introduction On 30 May 2024, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued its judgment in Conny (Case C-400/22), which concerned the labelling requirements for online order buttons under Article 8 of the Consumer Rights Directive … Read more
