
Renan Bendel Vaughan (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of University of Minho and ENDE Research Grant Holder – UMINHO/BIM/2026/40)
Setting the scene: eight days in April, one contradiction
In April 2026, two events gave
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Ana Filipa Ribeiro (master’s student in European Union Law at the School of Law of University of Minho and ENDE Research Grant Holder – UMINHO/BIM/2026/33)
Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCAR)[1] is the European Union’s first comprehensive…