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The European High Speed Rail Plan

News     24.11.2025 The European High Speed Rail Plan The European Commission unveiled its most ambitious high-speed rail plan to connect Europe in a unified high speed rail system by 2040. The most shared map of this plan highlights the proposed significantly...

EU Data Act

NEWS     17.09.2025 The EU Data Act in terms of Logistics  The EU Data Act, adopted in 2023 and effective from September 2025, changes how businesses access and use data from connected products in the EU. While it affects all industries, it’s particularly important...

EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement – New trade and investment

NEWS     27.08.2025 EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement - New trade and investment opportunities  After more than two decades of negotiations, the European Union (EU) and the Mercosur countries - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay - have finally reached an...

Goods export to India – Most important regulatory first steps

News     11.12.2025 Exporting goods to India: The most important regulatory first steps The Indian market has started showing increasing demand for goods imports, and EU companies have started stepping in to meet those demands. In order to get a product onto the...

European Steel Industry

News     19.11.2025 Strengths of the European Steel Industry Steel is one of the most important crude metals for the global economy. It’s essential in supporting the enormous global construction industry, the automotive industry and the wider transportation sector, as...

EU – Japan Economic Partnership Agreement

NEWS     16.09.2025 The EU – Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) Trade between the European Union and Japan represents one of the most important bilateral economic relationships. Together, the EU and Japan account for nearly a quarter of global GDP and close to...

EU company law is going digital – Directive (EU) 2025/25

NEWS     27.08.2025 EU company law is going digital – Directive (EU) 2025/25 European company law has already made significant progress towards digitalization. Directive (EU) 2017/1132, later amended by Directive (EU) 2019/1151, enabled online company formation and...

EU Directive against Environmental Crime

News     10.12.2025 Protection of the environment through criminal law Environmental crime has become one of the fastest-growing and most profitable types of international crime. Illegal waste shipments, unlawful trade in wildlife, serious breaches of environmental...

Claim against Minimum Wage Directive Dismissed by the CJEU

News     13.11.2025 Denmark’s Claim against the Minimum Wage Directive Dismissed by the CJEU   In 2023, Denmark challenged the validity of Directive (EU) 2022/2041 on Adequate Minimum Wages (“Directive”) before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)....

Sustainable Business – European Union Taxonomy 2025

NEWS     28.08.2025 Sustainable Business – European Union Taxonomy 2025 The European Union (EU) has established a legal framework that identifies which economic activities can be considered environmentally sustainable, also known as the EU Taxonomy. First adopted in...

EU corporate sustainability rules are changing – Omnibus I

NEWS     26.08.2025 EU corporate sustainability rules are changing – Omnibus I In recent years, two European Union legislative acts - the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) – have become...