Andrzej Duda signs into law scrapping controversial disciplinary chamber for judges. Poland’s lower house of parliament voted to kill the disciplinary chamber last week. Judges cannot face disciplinary proceedings for asking the EU Court of Justice. The dismantling of a contentious Supreme Court disciplinary mechanism for judges, which the European Union said undermined judicial independence, … Read more
A top EU court on Wednesday, rejected a bid by Kremlin-linked oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin, the alleged financier of the Wagner mercenary group, to overturn sanctions imposed over the Libyan conflict. Prigozhin had challenged a decision in 2020 to freeze his assets in the European Union and place him on a visa blacklist in connection with … Read more
BRUSSELS: An EU court on Wednesday annulled a €1.06 billion ($1.2 billion) fine against US chipmaker Intel, finding that Brussels had failed to adequately prove anti-competitive practices in a key aspect of the case, a statement said. The decision by the Luxembourg-based General Court came 12 years after the original fine, the bloc’s fourth biggest … Read more
American multinational technology company Google seeks to overturn the first of three hefty European Union antitrust fines at Europe’s second-highest court Google seeks to lay out its arguments against a 2.4-billion-euro ($2.6 billion) fine handed out by the European Commission during a three-day hearing at the General Court. EU regulators said this penalty for Google’s … Read more
