Open Access
The ball is in the game : opportunities for the protection of freedom of expression at the EU level arising from Real Madrid vs Le Monde case
Loading...
Files
Verf_Ball_game_2024.pdf (824.25 KB)
Full-text in Open Access, Published version
License
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Cadmus Permanent Link
Full-text via DOI
ISBN
ISSN
2366-7044
Issue Date
Type of Publication
Keyword(s)
LC Subject Heading
Other Topic(s)
EUI Research Cluster(s)
Initial version
Published version
Succeeding version
Preceding version
Published version part
Earlier different version
Initial format
Citation
Verfassungsblatt, 2024, No. 4, pp. 755-757
Cite
MILEWSKA, Paulina Magdalena, NOWICKA, Zuzanna, The ball is in the game : opportunities for the protection of freedom of expression at the EU level arising from Real Madrid vs Le Monde case, Verfassungsblatt, 2024, No. 4, pp. 755-757 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/77268
Abstract
In 2017, after the assassination of the Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) became an important topic on the EU level. As a result, the EU adopted the anti-SLAPP Directive, which shall protect journalists from abusive lawsuits that do not serve justice but only the sinister aim of silencing free press. Days from now, that directive will enter into force. Member States have two years for implementation. Nevertheless, the Directive is not the EU’s only SLAPP-related legal project at the moment. There is important litigation as well. This litigation originates, of all places, from the equally flashy and dirty world of professional football. In February 2024, Advocate General Maciej Szpunar delivered his opinion on the Real Madrid Club de Fútbol vs Le Monde case (C-633/22). The case addressed the problem of exorbitant damages targeting press and introducing a deterrent effect on freedom of speech in transnational cases. It is the Court of Justice of the European Union’s (ECJ) first opportunity to address the vastly growing problem of SLAPPs.
Table of Contents
Additional Information
First published online on Verfassungblog: 24 April 2024