Law & Justice

Georgia Receives EU and U.S. Support after Arbitrary Sentencing in Conflict Zone

February 09, 2021

Euractiv reports that the European Union and the United States have condemned the heavy prison sentence given to a Georgian citizen by the authorities in the Russia-controlled Georgian region of South Ossetia, calling for his immediate release.
Google Faces Two New Antitrust Lawsuits in the EU

January 27, 2021

Business Insider reports that after already fining Google close to $10 billion in fines for anticompetitive behavior in the past few years, the tech giant is facing new antitrust action in the EU as officials continue to scrutinize the tech giant's data gathering and advertising practices.
Navalny Sentenced to 30 days in Prison

January 19, 2021

A Russian court ruled that opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, be jailed for 30 days following his return home from Germany, where he recovered from a near-fatal poisoning.
Kremlin Critic Nalvany Detained After Returning to Russia

January 18, 2021

Five months after surviving a nerve agent attack, Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny was detained at a Moscow airport after returning from Germany, accused of multiple violations of parole and will be held in custody until a court makes a decision in his case.
Brookings: The CJEU Judges the World on Surveillance and Privacy

January 13, 2021

Cameron F. Kerry, writing for The Brookings Institute, explores the consequences of a July 2020 judgment by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) that invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, the main vehicle that allows transfers of personal data from the European Union to the United States.
Austria Pushes for EU Imam Registry as CVE Measure

January 06, 2021

Austria’s Minister for European Affairs is pushing for an EU-wide adoption of Vienna’s registry of imams as a countering violent extremism (CVE) measure that would allow better monitoring of radical Islamist preaching, Islamic associations advocating violence, and a ban on mosque financing by foreign states and non-state entities associated with radical Islamism.
ECtHR: Rights Violated in First Purge Case from Turkey

December 17, 2020

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled unanimously that the rights of a civil servant who was fired in a purge carried out by the government after a failed 2016 coup in Turkey, were violated, citing the right to a fair trial and the right to respect for private and family life, Article 6 and Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Right.
ECtHR Orders European Countries to Respond to Youth Climate Activist's Lawsuit

December 01, 2020

According to the Guardian, The European Court of Human Rights has ordered 33 European governments to respond to a climate lawsuit lodged by six youth campaigners who declare that leaders in Europe are moving too slowly to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions.
UK Announces Biggest Military Budget in 30 years

November 23, 2020

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced his country’s biggest military increase in expenditure since the Cold War, with plans for a new space command, an artificial intelligence agency, and a reenergized Navy
EU's JHA agencies put Focus on Digitalisation

November 23, 2020

The EU’s Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies came together for a virtual annual meeting, chaired by Eurojust, where they had a first exchange on Artificial Intelligence and digital capacity building and agreed to explore avenues for closer cooperation in order to shape the digital future of law enforcement, border management, and justice.