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Opening speech Opening Academic Year 2019-2020

This summer we have witnessed the birth of the “European university”. In June, the European Commission announced the 17 successful bids for this status from consortia of institutions across the continent.

‘Police, open the door!’ A sentence often heard when police arrest people at their houses. These arrests are often carried out by heavily armed police teams and accompanied by noise, shouting and violence.

European Union research funding emphasises interactions between stakeholders as key to drive innovation on the continent.

AIs are currently reversing the roots of the retail industry which was mainly based on a reactive model. Instead, based on their predictions, the model is changing and consumers are being highly influenced by AIs at any stage of the purchasing process.

Recently, Chanel Co., Ltd. lost a trade mark infringement case regarding its ‘Double C’ logo in China.

The financial and economic crisis evidenced the need to reform and strengthen the EU’s Economic and Monetary Union.

There has been much brouhaha about equalization levies in the context of the digital economy. One of the hotly debated issues is whether such levies are covered by tax treaties at all. In this post, I should like to reflect over this issue as objectively as possible.

On the 10th of January 2019, AG-Szpunar concluded in Google v. CNIL that a removal request based on the Google Spain v. Costeja judgement should not have a worldwide effect.

In the last few months all colleagues were able to participate in a poll to name our tutorial rooms. This leads to a choice doing justice to diversity in nationality, field, gender and type of name.