On May 13, 2025, just before midnight, a FIDESZ deputy tabled a new bill before the Hungarian Parliament. The bill seeks to enhance “sovereignty protection measures” – launched in December 2023 by Act ...

On 14 May 2025, the General Court of the EU ruled in favour of The New York Times in the much-awaited Pfizergate case, annulling the European Commission’s decision to withhold the SMS text messages ...

Guatemala, Wednesday, April 23, 2025: Public prosecutors execute an arrest warrant against Luis Pacheco, the Deputy Energy Minister and former president of “48 Cantones” – a traditional self-governing ...

The Supreme Court has lately been advancing a “unitary theory of the executive” that undermines these foundational administrative-law frameworks. The theory strengthens the Trump Administration’s hand ...

Only a vigilant democracy can be a resilient democracy. The public also deserves to know why the publication occurred at this ...

They allow Member States to subject applicants who are nationals of – or, in the case of stateless persons, were formerly habitually resident in – designated safe countries of origin to an exceptional ...

The first condition (para. 57 of the Opinion) is that the claimant presented prima facie evidence to support their allegations. If the claimant’s account lacks consistency, coherence, or credibility, ...

Leaving the issue to continue to “percolate” through the lower courts, as the Attorney General Sauer suggested, would leave millions in limbo about their citizenship status, and with it, their ability ...

This ruling offers an excellent illustration of the Court’s flawed understanding of the role of humor and satire in the protection of free speech. The ECtHR’s doctrine on this matter suggests that ...

Article 14 (2) of the Dutch Nationality Act (in Dutch: Rijkswet op het Nederlanderschap) allows for the revocation of Dutch nationality of those who are convicted of terrorism-related crimes. However, ...

Legal scholars and political scientists are experiencing nowadays a form of linguistic awkwardness, if not vertigo, as the very words (judicial independence, rule of law, separation of powers, ...