🚨🚨'How Europe is paying other countries to police its borders'. Excellent critical long read by Laura Dubois & Adam Samson on how the EU is turning to draconian tactics to curb migration after pressure from the far right ahead of this year’s elections. ft.com/content/e58c33…

🚨🚨 #EUlaw and #dataprotection : according to new opinion by AG Pikamäe of EU Court of Justice , the supervisory authority has an obligation to act when it finds a breach in the course of investigating a complaint. curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/do…

CJEU, data protection law

New judgment on damages for breach of the GDPR
curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

Labour leads the Conservatives by 28% in London.

London Westminster VI (6-8 April):

Labour 51%
Conservative 23%
Liberal Democrat 13%
Green 7%
Reform 5%
Other 0%

redfieldandwiltonstrategies.com/london-mayoral…

CJEU, fair trials
New Advocate General's opinion on illiterate suspect's waiver of the right to a lawyer
curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

CJEU, sanctions law

New Advocate General's opinion: EU sanctions against Russia don't prevent notaries from authentication of property sales
curia.europa.eu/juris/document…

I’m normally quite polite here, but what a tosser

The Express brings you...

'Brexit and Food: A Tragedy in Four Acts'

(It's not JUST Brexit. Other factors were also key contributors, including recent record flooding. But it is beyond dispute that Brexit played a major part.)

Science minister used £34k public money to defend her defamation of an academic
theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

Steve Peers And sometimes he doesn’t like the Government to act without constraint.

The ECHR's ruling that a right to family life covers protection from the effects of climate change raises the question whether the CJEU will take the same view of that right in the EU CFR. If so it could effect EU climate change measures and MS action within the scope of EU law.

Incredible exclusive by Pippa Crerar. Sunak paid £2m for focus groups to check whether 'Eat Out To Help Out' would be a popular thing to do, but neglected to even tell the govt's scientific and medical advisors so they could assess the health risk. ~AA

theguardian.com/business/2024/…

Read our new report Refugee Council 🧡 out today showing that the crisis of refugee homelessness is due to a system that is dysfunctional by design and discriminatory in delivery. We want to see an end to this crisis which is within the means of the Government and Mayor of London

BIG potential blow to GB News.

One of its major bankrollers, Paul Marshall, is set to quit its board. Redundancies are also planned.

news.sky.com/story/telegrap…

Local responses to irregular #migration vary widely.

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It was a painful decision to resign from the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation, but necessary. I hope more people around the country will follow Liz Cheney's example and speak out about the threat to our democracy. Time to step up.
politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

Reform UK 'mortified' after sacking 'inactive' candidate who had in fact died buff.ly/3PWWx5h

JRM profoundly misunderstands basic public law principles.

CJEU, Brexit and State aid law

Advocate General's opinion says that a pre-Brexit UK tax law was not illegal State aid

I love the phrasing of this. 'There were we, minding our own business, and along comes this Europe thing, and whacks us for two billion quid.' ~AA

telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…