The EU Inc. proposal of 18 March 2026 (COM(2026) 321 final) promised founders a single, harmonised corporate form covering aspects of corporate, insolvency, labour and tax law. Its most relevant feature for start-ups is the EU Employee Stock Option scheme (EU-ESO). Stock…
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Carbon Certificates under a European Legal Framework: Ready for Lift-off?
Regulation 2024/3012 establishing a Union certification framework for permanent carbon removals, carbon farming and carbon storage in products (hereafter: CRCF Regulation or Regulation) creates a European quality framework for carbon certificates. In this blog post I argue that the CRCF Regulation can…
The Child Is Not the Marriage: A.A. v. the Netherlands and Individual Assessment in the Application of Article 4(4) of Directive 2003/86
A.A. v. the Netherlands sits at an unusual intersection of Strasbourg family-life doctrine and EU family-reunification law. The European Court of Human Rights unanimously found no violation of Article 8 after the Netherlands refused a Yemeni refugee’s request to bring five…
Sanctions, Lawyers, and the Limits of Article 47 CFREU: The Grounds of Appeal in Case C-865/24 P Ordre néerlandais des avocats du barreau de Bruxelles and Others v Council
By Matteo Reed
Since October 2022, EU-based lawyers have been prohibited from providing certain legal advice to the Russian government and to companies established in Russia. This sounds, at first glance, like a narrow and technical restriction buried deep within the EU’s sanctions…
A ‘Section 301 à l’Européenne’ for Semiconductors: Could the Chips Act 2.0 Provide It?
On 22 May 2026, French President Emmanuel Macron called for ‘l’équivalent d’une section 301 à l’Européenne’. Speaking at a European forum on computing power, quantum technologies and semiconductors in Bruyères-le-Châtel, Macron argued that Europe needed a stronger response to foreign actors whose laws and policies…
From Tobacco to TikTok: The KIDS Act and the Expansion of EU Harmonisation Powers
The European Commission published the long-awaited EU KIDS Act on 17 September 2026. This proposal comes after fierce debates in several Member States on the introduction of a minimum age to access social media platforms, often referred to more generally…
Can a Brand Mislead About Its Past: Fauré Le Page and the Limits of Deceptive Trade Marks
This post examines the CJEU’s judgment of 26 March 2026 in Case C-412/24, Fauré Le Page, concerning French trade marks containing the expression “Fauré Le Page Paris 1717”. The Court held that a fictitious founding date may make a trade…
A Victim in One Member State, a Bystander in Another? Case C-24/26 Casotta
On 23 April 2026, the ECJ decided in Case C-24/26 PPU, Casotta, that Directive 2012/29/EU (Victims’ Rights Directive) did not require a victim who had never joined the national proceedings as a civil party, to be informed when the person…
The Manufacturable Employee: What Hortis Misses About Remote Work
The Court of Justice’s July 2026 judgment in Hortis lands squarely on the fault line running through every remote and cross-border hire: does the law that protects a worker follow the place they actually work, or can it be engineered…
One more step in concretizing the value of democracy: Case C 438/24 Erakond Eestimaa Rohelised
Is the imposition of a deposit as a condition for standing as a candidate for the European Parliament (‘EP’) elections compatible with EU law? And if so, under which conditions? These were the questions the European Court of Justice (‘the…