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Steve Peers
@StevePeers
Professor of EU Law & Human Rights Law, @rhul_law. Latest book: EU Justice and Home Affairs Law, 5th ed (OUP), published Oct 2023. Usual disclaimers.
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Jul 15 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
1/ Imagine taking this guy seriously as a source of interpretation of EU law. In my field, the ultimate example of the Dunning-Kruger effect. Let's look at the claim in more detail. Image 2/ "illegal": Digital Services Act expressly provides for the possible negotiation of commitments from the platform

"Secret": Art 80 DSA expressly requires publication of those commitments

"Other platforms did a deal": according to the Commission, all other cases are pending Image
Apr 18 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Brexit law- proposal to negotiate a youth mobility treaty between the EU and the UK

Press release - note basic rule would be a 4-year stay for 18-30 year olds who meet the conditions

But wait, there's more ec.europa.eu/commission/pre…
Image 2/ EU/UK youth mobility treaty proposal - questions and answers

Note equal treatment in tuition fees, points re traineeships, visa fees, health surcharges, application to all Member States - would UK government accept all this? (Also a question to ask Labour)
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Dec 8, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Summary of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act just agreed #AIAct
europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-… Agreed EU rules on law enforcement use of artificial intelligence #AIAct Image
Dec 6, 2023 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
1/ Here's the Rwanda bill - my thread with the main points follows 2/ The context of the bill is the recently agreed Rwanda treaty. The issues in clause 1.3 *might* be enough to convince courts to change their mind on the safety of Rwanda since the Supreme Court judgment, but as we'll see it's a moot point: the bill dispenses with courts anyway. Image
Aug 26, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
1/ I am seeing this being shared. A few points. Image 2/ The spiel in the link confuses the two EU courts, which is not impressive. In fact the applicants in this case lost earlier in the EU General Court, then lost their appeal this year to the CJEU. And this omits to point out that the CJEU had ruled on the substance in June 2022. Image
Aug 14, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Profoundly ignorant on both points. A) the Good Friday Agreement requires compliance with the ECHR. That necessarily entails the Strasbourg Court. There's no legal route to saying that it applies but to the peace process only. 1/ 2/ And the idea that it applies to the "peace process" but not "foreign nationals" is confused - for the obvious reason that some of those covered by the former ground may be Irish citizens.
Jul 23, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
1/ I see "gotchas" assuming that this interpretation of the scope of EU external power is correct. It's not obvious that it is correct: labour migration is not the same thing as trade (apart from short term provision of services), so is not necessarily an EU exclusive competence. 2/ Nor is Schengen necessarily relevant here, as it applies to short term visits and the issue is longer term stays. There's limited EU harmonisation on non-EU labour migration, and both the Treaties and EU legislation have carve-outs on aspects of the topic.
May 10, 2023 • 34 tweets • 9 min read
Here it is - the official govt U-turn on the retained EU law bill. But some employment law protections will be on the bonfire. Some points 1/ 2/ The key point:

"To ensure that Government can focus on delivering more reform of REUL, to a faster timetable, we are amending the REUL Bill to be clear which laws we intend to revoke at the end of this year.... >
May 9, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This is obviously not a serious legal or ethical argument for arresting protesters. It's getting almost too easy to find the gifs
Apr 13, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Reminder that leaving the ECHR would be a breach of the Good Friday Agreement, and end security cooperation with the EU A bad legal take, from a usual source of bad legal takes
Apr 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
CJEU, new cases 1/2

EU commission asks court to fine Hungary for not complying with prior judgment on asylum law (dunno why it took a year to publish the summary) CJEU, new cases 2/2

WhatsApp appeals against lower court ruling that it cannot challenge decisions of the European Data Protection Board
Mar 23, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
CJEU, criminal law/human rights

New judgment: first CJEU interpretation of exception to Schengen double jeopardy rules, allowing a Member State to bring a second prosecution where the alleged offence threatens its security or equivalent interests - curia.europa.eu/juris/document… CJEU, criminal law/human rights II

Another new judgment - interprets rules on in absentia trials and European Arrest Warrants, answering questions from Irish court - curia.europa.eu/juris/document…
Mar 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
EU law catch-up

1/ Brexit law - new EU law on framework for retaliation against UK breaches of Brexit treaties published in EU Official Journal
eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/… 2/ EU employment law

Danish legal challenge to EU law setting a framework for minimum wages - summary of the arguments
Mar 22, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The secondary legislation approved this afternoon by MPs to give effect to the Windsor Framework is here: legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2023/978… Brexit law

The next step is formal adoption of the Joint Committee decision and soft law constituting the Windsor Framework - scheduled for Friday morning (the EU also has yet to adopt the unilateral legislation connected to the deal)
Mar 10, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
This is untrue. Sugar repeatedly criticised Corbyn. This is only a partial collection of Sugar's tweets critical of Corbyn. Obviously more than one, and not only during an election either. Dorries seems to think "impartiality" should only be invoked to silence critics of the government.
Mar 9, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Raab may claim that it's speculation, but here's the statement in the minutes from when the EU approved the Brexit deal - "in the event that the UK denounces the ECHR...the EU will terminate" the criminal law provisions of the deal See my thread at the time
Mar 5, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Blogged

Just say no? My analysis of the Stormont Brake in the new Windsor Framework: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/03/just-s…

(part 1 of my analysis, on the rest of the Windsor Framework, is here: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-wi…) The blog post examines in detail the many legal issues relating to the Stormont brake. For instance, these criteria in the UK unilateral declaration.
Feb 27, 2023 • 29 tweets • 9 min read
Windsor Framework legal text published. Some initial comments 1/
gov.uk/government/pub… First, a UK government command paper which summarises and defends the package
Feb 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Catch up of EU legal news after the latest round of #ucustrikes action

1/ Home Office decides not to appeal ruling against it re status of EU citizens in the UK 2/ EU Member States' representatives agree that EU should become party to Istanbul Convention on violence against women

Feb 8, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
UK Supreme Court unanimously dismisses unionist challenge to NI protocol

Press summary - supremecourt.uk/press-summary/…

Judgment full text - supremecourt.uk/cases/docs/uks… Summary of the Supreme Court reasoning
Feb 5, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
theguardian.com/politics/2023/… Here's the non-regression clause in the Trade and Cooperation Agreement. The threshold for reducing environmental standards is identical. Any use of retaliation could be connected to a dispute settlement process.