A number of measures concerning search and rescue (SAR) operations and disembarkations following those operations have been incorporated in the “new pact on asylum and migration” (hereafter pact) adopted by the European Commission on 23 September 2020. This has not happened by chance: as is well known, SAR operations in the Mediterranean Sea have been a key theme and a reason of legal and political disputes between EU Member States and the EU Institutions in recent years. Mediterranean coastal States have demanded solidarity, both in carrying out SAR operations and in relocating rescued people.

Agnese Vitale (Università di Firenze) Con l’annuncio da parte degli Emirati Arabi Uniti (EAU) e poi del Bahrain di voler ristabilire normali relazioni diplomatiche con Israele, sale a quattro il numero di paesi arabi ad aver riconosciuto lo Stato ebraico (Egitto nel 1979, Giordania nel 1994), e altri paesi arabi

On 16^th July 2020, in its landmark judgment in Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited, Maximillian Schrems (Case C- 311/18, Schrems II), the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) invalidated the Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield (“the Privacy Shield Decision”). As a result, thousands of companies can no longer rely on the Privacy Shield Decision as a legal basis for transferring personal data from the EU to the US. In its judgment, the ECJ also affirmed the validity of Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) as a data transfer mechanism for international data transfers, but with a few conditions: companies are required to assess the data importer’s ability to comply with the contractual arrangements embedded in SCCs and adduce «additional safeguards» where appropriate. The implications of the case are much wider than just the invalidation of the Privacy Shield Decision. The judgment has important implications on the other tools that compose the data transfer toolbox offered by the GDPR and has raised uncertainties on the future of international data transfer more broadly.

A ridosso dell’inizio di un nuovo, atteso e particolarmente problematico anno scolastico, la Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo ha rivolto all’Italia un severo monito su una questione tanto urgente quanto sistematicamente irrisolta, relativa all’esigenza di garantire, in modo concreto ed effettivo, una educazione realmente inclusiva, qualificata e continuativa agli studenti in situazione di disabilità. Con una sentenza adottata il 10 settembre 2020, nel caso G. L. c. Italia, i giudici della Corte europea hanno infatti accertato, all’unanimità, la violazione, da parte dello Stato italiano, dell’art. 14 della Convenzione europea, che vieta ogni forma di trattamento discriminatorio, in combinato disposto con l’art. 2 del Protocollo 1, che assicura a sua volta il diritto all’istruzione