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Eunseo Hong
Eunseo Hong is Courthouse News’ Europe courts correspondent, based in the Netherlands. Originally from South Korea, she covers international courts and legal issues, with a focus on EU legal affairs and the International Court of Justice.
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Big Tech accuses Belgium of rewriting rules for paying creators
Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony say Belgium’s copyright law forces platforms into negotiations and payments that go beyond the EU’s landmark 2019 copyright directive.
European court faults Lithuania over CIA black site tied to USS Cole suspect
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Lithuania violated the rights of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri by hosting a secret CIA prison, exposing him to an unfair military trial and possible execution after years in the agency’s covert detention network.
Google search empire stuck with $4.7 billion fine after losing final Android appeal in Europe
The EU's big win is part of the bloc's blueprint for how to handle anticompetitive behavior by Big Tech.
EU’s top court says Russia media ban reaches donation-funded bloggers
The European Court of Justice said people running free, donation-funded websites can qualify as “operators” under the EU’s Russia sanctions, even if they are not traditional broadcasters.
Challenge to prison tobacco ban goes up in smoke at Europe's rights court
The grounds for dismissal raise a question: If inmates don't follow up with complaints once they're released, how can courts fairly address questions about conditions in detention?
Congo takes Rwanda back to UN court over decades of bloodshed
The Democratic Republic of Congo has asked the International Court of Justice to hold neighboring Rwanda responsible for decades of killings, rape and persecution in its eastern provinces, arguing the conflict that followed the 1994 Rwandan genocide belongs before the U.N.’s highest court.
Ireland’s turf-cutting tradition singled out as flouting nature law
A legal adviser for Europe’s top court found Ireland failed to protect some of its most valuable peat bogs, moving the country closer to a reckoning over conservation and heritage.
European judges fault Ukraine over ouster of constitutional court chief
Ukraine violated the rights of a former constitutional court president after the judges who pursued the case against him also helped decide it, rights court judges found.