Any #EU#law historians around? Since when can member states not party to a direct action proceeding before the #CJEU submit observations? The oldest example I could find by a crude text search dates from 1986 [1]. That's 32 years after the first direct action was lodged that included a member state [2]. Were member states simply not allowed to submit observations before?
Interested in studying the European Court of Justice using empirical methods, but not sure how to get started? Look no further! ⚖️📈
I have written an introductory guide to studying the work of the #CJEU using #rstats, guiding you through all the steps from downloading the data to producing figures such as the ones attached (using #ggplot2).
In other news of the day, the Court of Justice of the European Union ( #CJEU ) declared that a shitty attempt by Meta to avoid abiding to GDPR was unlawful, and that they have to actually comply and not just add some bullshit loophole into the terms of service.
I read this as Meta's response: "Fine, you won't get to participate in our brand new shiny social network then". Joke's on them, the EU is already on the Fediverse running its own Mastodon instance.
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here (www.independent.ie)
Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.