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FIDE (the International Federation for European law), established in 1961, is a unique and influential forum for bringing together highly experienced judges, lawyers and academics from all over Europe and beyond to discuss – and often shape – the European legal order. Over the past 60 years, FIDE congresses have garnered attention from highly distinguished patrons, both at EU and national level.

This is the meanwhile sixth edition of the two-day annual seminar on international extradition and the practice of the European Arrest Warrant. The seminar provides in-depth knowledge of extradition and EAW law and is a unique opportunity to establish a network of colleagues interested and/or experienced in extradition-related matters.

This webinar delves into topics of digital investigations. It will deal with the tensions between the increased need for effective inestigations in the cyberworld and the need for control on these investigation in order to ensure fundamental rights protection.

The overall objective of this year’s Eclan Conference is to assess the existing EU instruments for the protection of victims’ rights and to ponder future prospects. To this purpose, cross-cutting aspects of victims’ rights will be highlighted while focusing on several issues that have been identified as the most pressing. With a view to ensuring a variety of perspectives, speakers from the academia will intervene along with representatives of the EU institutions and the civil society.

This short course will explore some of the many ways in which international law and institutions have been asked to address elements of the conflict including State responsibility, accountability for human rights abuses, individual criminal accountability, and economic concerns.

The course will consider how the digital environment and human rights intersect and discuss the advancement of human rights in the digital age. It examines the challenges to the promotion and realisation of rights as it applies to the emergence of digital technologies, therefore, it discusses issues pertaining to human rights and their protection in the use of digital technologies.

This course will examine how international courts prove the most serious international crimes. It aims to provide a thorough analysis of law and procedure relating to evidence and proof in international criminal trials, from Nuremberg through to the ad hoc international criminal tribunals, to international and hybrid tribunals today.

In the context of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the General Court annulled the restrictive measures applied to Ms Violetta Prigozhina, mother of Mr Yevgeniy Prigozhin, who founded the mercenary company "Wagner Group".

After its resolution of 15 December 2022, the EP endorsed further measures in February 2023 that support the overcoming of the "Qatargate" scandal. Next to short-term measures and an extended mandate of the ING2 committee, MEPs call for reforms ensuring better transparency, accountability and integrity of the EU institutions.

On 1 March 2023, the EPPO presented its annual report for 2022. It is the first annual report that provides the picture of a full calendar year after the EPPO had started to exercise its competence on 1 June 2021.