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The scientific panel of independent experts (the Scientific Panel) is a body established under the EU AI Act to support the enforcement of rules on general-purpose AI (GPAI) models and systems. It sits within the Act’s broader governance architecture as one of the three advisory bodies, alongside the AI Board ( established under Article 65) […]

A recent judgment of the European Court of Human Rights concerning a TikTok video published by a Georgian self-defined civil activist adds another layer to the Court’s increasingly messy Article 10 case law. The applicant repeatedly insulted public officials in crude and sexually explicit terms while broadcasting to a large online audience. Domestic courts imposed only a modest administrative fine, later reduced on appeal. The ECtHR did not find a violation of the applicant’s right to freedom of

The European Central Bank has told banks to draw up action plans to address AI-enabled cyber threats, warning that emerging models such as Anthropic's Mythos have "potentially profound implications" for the resilience of IT system.

Commission v Hungary must be understood in the context of the European rule of law saga and the ongoing struggle for true European solidarity. The CJEU confirmed the autonomous justiciability of Article 2 TEU even when the link to specific EU Charter provisions or secondary legislation would already suffice. A close look at ASJP case and its antecedents discloses a European society selectively built – protecting some configurations while leaving others outside – with solidarity, as an operative

Antoine Vauchez famously stated that the “constitutionalization of Europe” flourished in the hills of Fiesole. The Academy of European Law (AEL) at the European University Institute organizes an annual Summer Course on the Law of the European Union for two weeks of intensive lectures and exchange. I reflect on this year’s Summer Course as a site where ideas of European society are debated, contested, and further developed. Ultimately, I will critically reflect on what the Summer Course might tel

BRUSSELS — The EU’s biggest lenders should set out how they will tackle risks from cutting-edge artificial intelligence models by the end of October, the bloc’s top banking supervisor said today. Chair of the supervisory board of the European Central Bank, Claudia Buch, told lenders to put in place action plans outlining how they will […]

The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into scientific research workflows, particularly for bibliographic discovery and literature synthesis, raises significant methodological, epistemic and regulatory challenges for the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), especially with regard to disciplinary diversity, multilingual access to sources and the evaluation of results. This paper presents an on-going use case developed within the European project LLMs4EU and the ALT-EDIC infrastructure,

Not all misinformation consequences are equal. Faced by hundreds of thousands of false claims online and offline every day, fact checkers need a robust way to identify the important ones to check. This scalable model—used by fact checkers in trials in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East since 2024—helps forecast the potential imminent and cumulative harms of different false claims and is an early warning system for society that focuses efforts on factually false claims that cause real-world harm

Fact checkers should maintain high standards of accountability because they hold unique positions in society by verifying content that can influence political practices and society as a whole. To maintain these professional standards, fact-checking network organizations such as the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) and the European Fact-Checking Standards Network (EFCSN) have established codes of standards, and fact-checking organizations should comply with them in a substantive way. Th

Major platforms constantly claim to fight disinformation and support the fact checking community, but their transparency reports and the empirical evidence from a survey of expert fact checkers across 21 EU countries show a different reality. This study finds that despite commitments made under EU regulations, expert fact checkers remain largely peripheral actors within the existing platform governance framework, with limited insight into how their work influences platform decisions. The post Ac

This week’s NATO summit in Ankara takes place at a pivotal moment in the alliance’s evolution – and for US–Europe relations. In Ankara, the agenda will rightly focus on defence spending targets and ...

Public institutions increasingly use large language models (LLMs) to answer citizens' questions, often pairing a curated knowledge base with live web search, yet whether the sources behind these answers can be trusted has received little empirical scrutiny. We report a pre-launch expert evaluation of Evrópuvefur, an independent, government-funded service run by the University of Iceland that answers questions about the European Union, conducted as Iceland prepared for its referendum of 29 August

This article was originally published by IAPP linked here. The U.S. Supreme Court’s Slaughter decision may complicate the future of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, making preparedness and business continuity planning increasingly important. In Thursday’s World Cup match between Portugal and Croatia, Croatia held a 1-0 lead until the 68th minute. Then, things changed. Croatia’s [...] The post Thought for the week: What Slaughter and a World Cup penalty have in common appeared first on Connect

Integration Through Law was and remains, in various forms, the major driver of European integration. Constitutional Pluralism arose out of constitutionalisation, counterbalancing the move to neoliberalism in the new millennium. In Commission v Hungary, the Court recognised European society “in which pluralism prevails” as a legal concept. The Court radiates judicial authority at a time when Europe is again in crisis, politically through populism, economically through competitiveness and sustaina

Can one speak of a European society without speaking about private relations? Recent scholarship on European society has largely approached the concept through the lens of public law. Yet societies are constituted at least as much by the horizontal relations between individuals and groups as by public institutions. This blogpost turns to EU private international law (PIL) and will argue that EU PIL brings into view the importance of coordination frameworks for organising a mode of integration ba

On the morning of 4 September, CEPS will convene a public event to launch a report summarising the work of a CEPS Task Force on ‘Next steps for EU law and regulation for the digital world’. The need ...

Access Now joins more than 20 human rights organizations and individuals in condemning Pegasus spyware attack against Stelios Kouloglou, Greek journalist and then-Member of the European Parliament The post Same government, more victims: Access Now calls for an urgent investigation into hacking of MEP appeared first on Access Now .

CDT Europe is publishing a joint statement with civil society organisations and individual signatories calling on the EU institutions to regulate spyware technologies after the 2026 Citizen Lab revelations. On 3 July 2026, a forensic analysis by the Citizen Lab revealed that Stelios Kouloglou, former Member of the European Parliament and investigative journalist, was targeted […] The post Joint Statement: Pegasus in the European Parliament, the EU Must Act Now appeared first on Center for Democr

[New Report] 2026 State of Fintech in Europe – Exploring Payments, Wealth, Lending, and more

We are facing a storm of geopolitical instability, economic coercion, AI and climate change – and it’s likely to get worse. But by working more closely with Europe and seeking greater cooperation ...

A landmark case is forcing Brussels to decide whether opening Google's search data to rivals can boost competition without undermining Europeans’ privacy.

Parliament president and EU countries are playing procedural politics to pass a law to scan internet services for child abuse material.

These activities are directly based on the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, the recommendations and findings of the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI), the ...

Parliament's final plenary session before the summer recess will see Members discuss the priorities of the Irish EU Council Presidency alongside key decisions on enlargement, foreign affairs, passenger rights, agriculture, competitiveness, environmental crime and the EU budget.

For many observers, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s speech on the future of NATO, delivered in Brussels on June 18, 2026, constituted a perfect example of how the Trump administration is angrily abandoning the longstanding U.S. commitment to European security. The prevailing picture is that the administration is eager to shift the burden of Europe’s defense and is thus moving to withdraw U.S. forces from the continent, even though Europe is moving to do more militarily. Hegseth stated, “we’r

The complexity of waste disposal regulations across European countries poses significant challenges for the residents and hinders the transition to a Circular Economy. In Germany, the proper sorting and disposal of household waste remains challenging across municipalities. Consequently, substantially reducing incorrectly disposed waste is vital for improving waste management and advancing the Circular Economy. AI-based waste sorting solutions can support residents through user-friendly tools, su

The society and emerging risk-based regulatory frameworks for AI underscore the need for rigorous risk assessment to ensure safe and reliable AI systems. In response to this imperative, this paper presents an overview of AI risk assessment (identification and analysis) and management methodologies. It begins by reviewing the worldwide regulatory landscape that drives the need for systematic AI risk assessment. Then we characterize the spectrum of AI-related risks identified in the literature, fr

New EU AI guidance sets practical expectations for labelling, deepfakes and AI-generated content transparency. In Brief Companies are increasingly using AI to create or modify content across marketing, communications and customer-facing channels. As EU transparency obligations under the AI Act move closer to application, this raises practical and operational questions around when AI-generated or AI-manipulated [...] The post New EU guidance on AI transparency: what should companies be doing from

Big Data & Society, Volume 13, Issue 3, July-September 2026. The regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) is a prominent issue in both the European Union (EU) and the United States of America, but with distinct approaches to the governance of this rapidly evolving field. The EU has developed a comprehensive ...

Ireland takes the reins of the Council’s policy negotiations at a moment of political possibility.

Trump's power to fire regulators undermines independent oversight, European privacy groups argue.

Dublin takes on the six-month presidency just before the French election grinds EU decision-making to a halt.

The European Commission wants to treat cloud computing as a gatekeeper market. That is the wrong diagnosis, and it would lead to the wrong cure. The Commission’s preliminary view that Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be designated as Digital Markets Act (DMA) gatekeepers for cloud-computing services is more than another skirmish in ... Brussels Goes Gate-Hunting: AWS, Azure, and the DMA’s Cloud Problem The post Brussels Goes Gate-Hunting: AWS, Azure, and the DMA’s Cloud Probl

Call for Tenders: European Data Market Study 2027–2028 dumimar Tue, 06/30/2026 - 14:43   Opening: 29 June 2026   Closing: 12 August 2026 This call for tenders will fund the European Data Market Study 2027–2028, which will provide quantitative evidence on the EU data market and data economy at large. AdobeStock © Miha Creative The study will build on data collected since 2014 and support evidence-based policymaking by monitoring key trends, measuring progress towards EU digital policy o

Large language models (LLM) trained on web-scale corpora generate output that may infringe copyright, yet existing technical safeguards focus narrowly on verbatim memorisation. EU copyright doctrine applies a broader standards: substantial similarity, which extends to stylistic choices, narrative structure, and creative elaboration. This mismatch between what current methods detect and what the law protects leaves a significant compliance gap. We introduce PSALM, an LLM-as-a-judge framework that

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Tension over digital regulation clouds ongoing talks to launch a new EU-U.S. tech "dialog."