This Saar Brief explores how the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), while designed to fast-track the green transition, may inadvertently weaken corporate accountability for human rights and environmental impacts. It calls for integrating binding due diligence and human-rights obligations into the EU’s climate framework to ensure that the transition is not only fast, but also fair and sustainable.
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The first contribution to our Symposium analyses the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) as a landmark step in the EU’s move from voluntary corporate responsibility to binding accountability. It traces how this ambitious project, once seen as a breakthrough, is now facing systematic political rollback that threatens to undermine its enforcement mechanisms and weaken its promise of effective corporate justice.
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This Case Note on Swissgrid v Commission analyses the Court of Justice’s interpretation of what constitutes a challengeable act under Article 263 TFEU and the admissibility of actions brought by non-EU undertakings. It summarises the case’s factual and procedural background and evaluates the judgment’s implications for judicial review in administrative decision-making and procedural rights in EU energy and competition law.
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This Saar Blueprint critically examines how gender-based persecution is addressed in EU asylum law, revealing persistent normative and jurisprudential gaps. Two recent ECJ rulings illustrate emerging progress towards a gender-sensitive approach. They also show the need to reform the legal approach to the issues.
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Spannende News! Unser Wissenschaftsblog startet mit den Saar Case Notes, die aktuelle Urteile aus Europa- und Völkerrecht analysieren! Interessiert, selbst mitzuschreiben? Ein Leitfaden und unser Redaktionsteam unterstützen Sie gerne. Im Fokus steht außerdem die Regulierung Künstlicher Intelligenz: In unserem Online-Symposium beleuchten wir ethische, gesellschaftliche und rechtliche Fragen rund um die Regulierung von KI. Unsere Beiträge umfassen kontroverse Entscheidungen wie dem Verbot des Compact-Magazins und der Rolle des EuGH in der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik. Schauen Sie vorbei und werden Sie Teil unseres Diskurses!
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Today we start with our online symposium „Regulation of Artificial Intelligence in Europe“. We start with a Saar Blueprint by Carolin Vormann on whether press and media freedom are threatened by AI. After describning the existing international legal framework, she proposes ideas to reduce AI-related risks to media and press freedom.
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