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The European Union has fundamentally restructured its anti-money laundering framework through a comprehensive legislative package that replaces fragmented national implementations with directly applicable regulations. This transformation introduces a new EU-wide supervisory authority, expands the scope of regulated entities, and establishes harmonized customer due diligence requirements across all member states.

Mixed views have been expressed as to whether the legislation is in line with constitutional laws.

What will become of the European Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court after the United Kingdom has declared its withdrawal?

Was wird aus dem europäischen Einheitspatent und Einheitspatentgericht nach dem erklärten Rückzug des Vereinigten Königreichs?

There is hardly any other decision of the German Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) which has been awaited as eagerly outside Germany and even outside Europe as the decision of the 2nd Senate of the FCC in case 2 BvR 739/17.

On 28 May 2025, the European Parliament, Council and Commission reached a political agreement on the long-anticipated revision of Directive 2009/38/EC (the Current Directive) on European Works Councils (EWCs).

By the time you may have read this the European electorate will have voted in 751 MEPs (which includes the UK's 73 seats).

Even with the recent postponement of Exit Day i.e., the date for Britain's withdrawal from the European Union to—at the latest—October 31, 2019, a No-Deal Brexit1 or a Hard Brexit

The European Central Bank (ECB), acting in its role as the lead in the Single Supervisory Mechanism's (SSM) pillar of the Eurozone's Banking Union has been increasingly clear ...

Kaum eine andere Entscheidung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts (BVerfG) wurde außerhalb Deutschlands, ja sogar außerhalb Europas, mit so großer Spannung erwartet wie die des 2.

The debate on the extradition of Ukrainian and Russian conscientious objectors has recently entered the public discourse in Germany.

On November 24, 2023, the upper chamber of the German parliament – the Bundesrat – approved relatively extensive changes to the German Federal Lobbying Act (Lobbyregistergesetz, LobbyRG).

German legislators have decided at very short notice to introduce some substantial amendments to the German Patent Act and other laws, effective as of 1 July 2006, which we would like to present.

On May 5, 2025, the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) entered into a coalition agreement (Coalition Agreement) with the Social Democratic Party of Germany...

The German Federal Constitutional Court is set to rule on the constitutionality of Section 8c of the Corporate Tax Act, which mandates complete forfeiture of tax losses when more than 50% of a corporation's shares change hands. The Hamburg Fiscal Court has supplemented its 2017 referral order with new details about a specific case where losses would be forfeited solely due to share acquisition, raising fundamental questions about whether this provision violates Germany's constitutional principle of equality

The German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) published further part of fifth edition of its Issuer Guide (Emittentenleitfaden)

The history of the Unitary Patent and the Unified Patent Court project has been full of surprises with it taking a new course in February 2020

Progress is being made regarding the protection of intellectual property ("IP") rights in a post-BREXIT scenario on both sides of the English Channel.