Pedro Petiz Viana
@pedropetizviana.bsky.social
Accredited Parliamentary Assistant at the European Parliament. LLM in European Law, Leiden University. Former parliament advisor at the Portuguese Parliament. Focus on EU institutional law, competition law, internal market law. Views my own.
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The Retention, Access and Re-Use of Communications Data: An Unbreakabl
<p>Case C-162/22 <italic>AG v Lietuvos Respublikos generalinė prokuratūra </italic>, Judgment of the Court of Justice (First Chamber) of 7 September 2023
In <italic>AG v Lietuvos Respublikos general
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My article "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞-𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚: An Unbreakable Legal Chain?" has been published in the European Data Protection Law Review.
Read it here: edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL...
Read it here: edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL...
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Wierdly flawed graph by the EP Research Service of member state and national party voting power in the Council of the EU.
What it does show is how dependend the representation of the S&D (Spain) and Renew (France) are on individual large member states:
What it does show is how dependend the representation of the S&D (Spain) and Renew (France) are on individual large member states:
August 11, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Wierdly flawed graph by the EP Research Service of member state and national party voting power in the Council of the EU.
What it does show is how dependend the representation of the S&D (Spain) and Renew (France) are on individual large member states:
What it does show is how dependend the representation of the S&D (Spain) and Renew (France) are on individual large member states:
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Globalisation is alive and well, and mostly consists of business continually adjusting their supply chains to national decisions. howardyu.substack.com/p/easter-egg...
April 22, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Globalisation is alive and well, and mostly consists of business continually adjusting their supply chains to national decisions. howardyu.substack.com/p/easter-egg...
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New from Anu Bradford, @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social & I in Foreign Affairs: As the US pressures the EU to surrender its rights-based regulatory power, we show that this fight stretches back decades, what the EU stands to lose & how to revive what makes it great: www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/europ...
Europe Could Lose What Makes It Great
U.S. pressure and domestic rancor threaten the EU’s regulatory superpower.
www.foreignaffairs.com
April 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
New from Anu Bradford, @rdanielkelemen.bsky.social & I in Foreign Affairs: As the US pressures the EU to surrender its rights-based regulatory power, we show that this fight stretches back decades, what the EU stands to lose & how to revive what makes it great: www.foreignaffairs.com/europe/europ...
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Sweet! Finally got some hard copies of the book!
April 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Sweet! Finally got some hard copies of the book!
Peter Navarro, Trump's advisor for trade, using environmental and labour law concerns to oppose globalization: a textbook argument from the Left against global free trade.
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Donald Trump’s tariffs will fix a broken system
Next we must tackle the barrage of non-tariff weapons used to strangle American exports
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April 8, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Peter Navarro, Trump's advisor for trade, using environmental and labour law concerns to oppose globalization: a textbook argument from the Left against global free trade.
www.ft.com/content/f313...
www.ft.com/content/f313...
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Explaining to young men that outsourcing your thinking to LLMs is bad because reading and writing is like lifting for your brain
April 6, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Explaining to young men that outsourcing your thinking to LLMs is bad because reading and writing is like lifting for your brain
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There’s an old Tumblr post similar to this, explaining why learning calculus is useful even though most people will never end up actually using calculus in their daily lives
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💬 333 🔁 118522 ❤️ 130021 · I took calculus my senior year of high school, and I really liked the way our teacher framed this on the first day of class.
He asked somebody to raise their hand and…
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April 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
There’s an old Tumblr post similar to this, explaining why learning calculus is useful even though most people will never end up actually using calculus in their daily lives
www.tumblr.com/flavoracle/1...
www.tumblr.com/flavoracle/1...
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Possibly my favorite AI prompt: "Please create google calendar events for easy import for each of the events in the following text. Note that all events are in [PLACE] for the purposes of setting the correct time zone. ...
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March 30, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Possibly my favorite AI prompt: "Please create google calendar events for easy import for each of the events in the following text. Note that all events are in [PLACE] for the purposes of setting the correct time zone. ...
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Listening to a discussion on 'The Road to Serfdom' and wondering what Hayek would think of the current moment in the US.
BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, Hayek's The Road to Serfdom
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Hayek's ideas on a state-planned economy's link to tyranny
www.bbc.co.uk
March 29, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Listening to a discussion on 'The Road to Serfdom' and wondering what Hayek would think of the current moment in the US.
Jeffrey Goldberg:
"The goal of people who are authoritarian-minded is to force compliance. They can only do what they want to do if no one fights them. If no one counters them".
"The goal of people who are authoritarian-minded is to force compliance. They can only do what they want to do if no one fights them. If no one counters them".
I interviewed Jeffrey Goldberg, editor of @theatlantic.com, at the New Orleans book festival last night
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Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum discuss the Signal group chat | New Orleans Book Festival
YouTube video by The Atlantic
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March 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Jeffrey Goldberg:
"The goal of people who are authoritarian-minded is to force compliance. They can only do what they want to do if no one fights them. If no one counters them".
"The goal of people who are authoritarian-minded is to force compliance. They can only do what they want to do if no one fights them. If no one counters them".
My article "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞-𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚: An Unbreakable Legal Chain?" has been published in the European Data Protection Law Review.
Read it here: edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL...
Read it here: edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL...
The Retention, Access and Re-Use of Communications Data: An Unbreakabl
<p>Case C-162/22 <italic>AG v Lietuvos Respublikos generalinė prokuratūra </italic>, Judgment of the Court of Justice (First Chamber) of 7 September 2023
In <italic>AG v Lietuvos Respublikos general
edpl.lexxion.eu
January 29, 2025 at 7:52 PM
My article "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞-𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚: An Unbreakable Legal Chain?" has been published in the European Data Protection Law Review.
Read it here: edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL...
Read it here: edpl.lexxion.eu/article/EDPL...
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Time to talk about EU defence.
in the past years, we conducted extensive research on the topic. What do we need? What Europeans want? How to deliver it?
let's dive in.
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in the past years, we conducted extensive research on the topic. What do we need? What Europeans want? How to deliver it?
let's dive in.
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November 20, 2024 at 11:01 AM
Time to talk about EU defence.
in the past years, we conducted extensive research on the topic. What do we need? What Europeans want? How to deliver it?
let's dive in.
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in the past years, we conducted extensive research on the topic. What do we need? What Europeans want? How to deliver it?
let's dive in.
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Awesome retro anti-European slogan on the back of a van in Florence. I assume he’s a plumber 😉
January 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Awesome retro anti-European slogan on the back of a van in Florence. I assume he’s a plumber 😉
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So in China ‘local governments are cold-calling married women to ask about their plans to have children and are handing out cash to parents to encourage them to have more than one child. Universities have been asked to introduce so-called love courses for single students.’ on.ft.com/41JiN9o
China steps up campaign for single people to date, marry and give birth
Women receive cold-calls about family planning and universities asked to offer ‘love courses’ to tackle demographic crisis
on.ft.com
December 25, 2024 at 9:11 PM
So in China ‘local governments are cold-calling married women to ask about their plans to have children and are handing out cash to parents to encourage them to have more than one child. Universities have been asked to introduce so-called love courses for single students.’ on.ft.com/41JiN9o
For my thesis at Universidade do Minho, I wrote about the Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence case, describing the possible application of the “Essential Facilities Doctrine” - a EU competition law concept - to the legal AI sector. 🧵...
December 22, 2024 at 11:38 AM
For my thesis at Universidade do Minho, I wrote about the Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence case, describing the possible application of the “Essential Facilities Doctrine” - a EU competition law concept - to the legal AI sector. 🧵...
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Now official ! commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
commission.europa.eu
December 4, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Now official ! commission.europa.eu/document/dow...
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In the institutional framework of the EU, national parliaments are supposed to safeguard this sense of legislative "control", via the subsidiarity protocol.
A revamped protocol could alleviate these (almost emotional, but still important) concerns and smooth the way for UKs re-entry.
A revamped protocol could alleviate these (almost emotional, but still important) concerns and smooth the way for UKs re-entry.
December 8, 2024 at 6:46 AM
In the institutional framework of the EU, national parliaments are supposed to safeguard this sense of legislative "control", via the subsidiarity protocol.
A revamped protocol could alleviate these (almost emotional, but still important) concerns and smooth the way for UKs re-entry.
A revamped protocol could alleviate these (almost emotional, but still important) concerns and smooth the way for UKs re-entry.
My article on Online Legal Platforms has now been cited in "Justice Tech", by Tabrez Ebrahim, Associate Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School, Oregon, United States. 🇺🇸
November 19, 2024 at 11:29 PM
My article on Online Legal Platforms has now been cited in "Justice Tech", by Tabrez Ebrahim, Associate Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School, Oregon, United States. 🇺🇸
Happy to know that the article I wrote in 2019, "Online legal platforms – the beginning of the 4.0 law practice?", has recently been cited in the study "Les plateformes juridiques en ligne et l’accès au droit", of the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée.
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November 17, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Happy to know that the article I wrote in 2019, "Online legal platforms – the beginning of the 4.0 law practice?", has recently been cited in the study "Les plateformes juridiques en ligne et l’accès au droit", of the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée.
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