Area of Freedom Security and Justice

This post discusses the ban on predictive policing in the AI Act and seeks to demonstrate the potential limitations of its effectiveness through a critical analysis of this provision.

This blog analyses the cases E.D.L. and the Opinion of the AG in GN, and discusses their influence on the two-step test, the future of mutual trust and protection of fundamental rights in surrender cases.

This post, after a brief overview of the scope and main features of the MiCA Regulation, will make some remarks on two outstanding issues: the doubtful rationale behind the scope of the Regulation, and its choice not to deal with decentralisation.

This blog post will provide a short recap of the Oral Hearing in the case G.K and Others, which took place before the Grand Chamber on 27 February 2023.

This post examines the most evident shortcomings of the current ethics frameworks for members and staff of the EU institutions involved in the legislative procedures.

This post deals with the former category of proportionality, the current issues, and the future perspectives, and analyses the Italian practice regarding the notion of “prospective proportionality”.

This contribution focuses on the new data processing powers of Europol.

The aim of this contribution is to discuss the interpretation of 'extraordinary circumstances' found in current case-law and what the recently decided case adds to it.

This post seeks briefly to summarise the background and the Political Declaration before outlining the sides’ opening negotiation gambits and noting three paradoxes.

The purpose of this post is to summarise the Court’s legal reasoning and to give a brief overview of the implications the judgment might have for Germany, German EAWs, and other Member States.

This post scrutinizes the role of different European and Maltese institutions on the Pilatus Bank scandal and studies certain problematic aspects of whistle-blowing, banking supervision and money laundering legislation.

This post argues that Prof. Capaldo’s argument in her blogpost presupposes a particular understanding of human rights, and that this understanding of human rights is problematic from the perspective of democratic theory.

This blogpost intends to present the context of this procedure and the main elements of the AG’s opinion before analysing them.