The EAPIL Blog in 2025

How was the year 2025 for the EAPIL blog? Rather busy, to put it shortly!

Some 300 new posts were published over the last twelve months, covering a broad range of subjects. A little less than a third of them were concerned with rulings (including upcoming rulings, as in the case of Marta Requejo’s monthly post announcing the rulings on PIL-related issues in the calendar of the Court of Justice). Academic events accounted for around 60 posts, while 80 posts were on scholarly contributions (monographs, collective works, articles and journal issues). Most of the remaining posts were about activities of the European Association of Private International Law, such as the EAPIL Winter School, or the EAPIL Working Groups.

Many of the posts related to developments in case law were concerned with judgments rendered by the Court of Justice of the European Union.

The cases we have covered include: BSH Hausgeräte, on jurisdiction over cross-border patent infringement; Bulgarfrukt, on the service of an European Order for Payment; Matthäus Metzler, on payments to an insolvent debtor under the European Insolvency Regulation; Ławida, on the jurisdiction to receive declaration on waiver of succession; Anikovi, on the scope of the Brussels II ter Regulation and its relationship with conventions concluded by a Member State with a third country, Lindenbaumer, on the habitual residence of diplomats; Cabris Investments, on choice of court agreements (we had two posts on the Court’s ruling: here and here); RFC Seraing, on the review of arbitral awards against EU public policy (again, two posts: here and here); Locatrans, on the law applicable to employment contracts (with one post on the AG’s opinion and one on the ruling).

Some rulings of the Court of Justice benefited from a broader coverage as they formed the object of dedicated on-line symposia. The EAPIL hosted one such symposium on Cupriak-Trojan, on the recognition of same-sex marriages across Member States, and one on Apple Nederland Store, on jurisdiction over collective redress cases (speaking of symposia, we also had one on the English Law Commission’s Consultation Paper on digital assets / ETDs and private international law).

The blog also reported on domestic cases, namely from Austria, Denmark (see here and here, among other posts), England (on UniCredit Bank v RusChemAlliance, Hipgnosis SFH 1 v Manilow, Prähl v Lapinski, and others), France (see here, here and here, to name a few), Germany, Greece (here and here), Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain and Sweden. Rulings of the European Court of Human Rights and of the Unified Patent Court were also analysed.

Several of the posts published in 2025 were authored by guests. We’re particularly happy about the involvement of scholars and practitioners beyond the team of permanent editors. The blog aims to represent a broad variety of views and to increase the visibility of pertinent developments in all European countries, and guests have, of course, a crucial role to play in this regard.

We’re glad to name this year’s guests here, and express once again our gratitude to all of them: Franziska Arnold-Dwyer, Massimo Benedettelli, Yiannis Bazinas, Marco Buzzoni, Ottavia Cazzola, Stefano Dominelli, Artur Doržinkevič, Paul Eichmüller, Burkhard Hess, Nishat Hyder-Rahman, João Ilhão Moreira, Isabelle Jäger-Maillet, Antonio Leandro (here and here), Lydia Lundstedt, Aygun Mammadzada, Francesca Maoli, Fabien Marchadier, Lea Marion, Brooke Marshall, Heloise Meur, Sara Migliorini, Meltem Ece Oba, Sagi Peari, Michiel Poesen (here and here), Deplhine Porcheron, Andrés Rodríguez Benot, Rob Rooman, Pierfrancesco Rossi, Carlos Santaló Goris, Federica Sartori, Jorg Sladič, Elizabeth Stuart Perry, Koji Takahashi, Louise Ellen Teitz, Alina Tryfonidou, Laima Vaigė, Birgit van Houtert, Bryan Verheul, Burcu Yüksel Ripley.

The number of readers visiting the blog (and the Association’s website) was on the rise in 2025 (+9% compared with 2024). The level of interaction with readers also significantly increased: the number of comments to this year’s posts was 72% higher than last year’s.

The blog’s readership remains highly diversified, geography-wise. Italy, Germany and Spain are the top 3 countries by number of visits, followed by the United States, the United kingdom, the Netherlands and France. If the ranking is made by cities, rather than countries, Milan is on top, followed by Luxembourg and London.

The most read posts of the year are Gilles Cuniberti’s analysis of the ruling of the Court of Justice in Lastre, on Article 25 of the Brussels I bis Regulation, Pietro Franzina’s post on the Commission’s report on the Bussels I bis Regulation and the analysis by Ugljesa Grusic on the English Court of Appeal’s ruling in Limbu v. Dyson.

The posts that attracted most comments were Erik Sinander’s post one on the applicability of the Rome I Regulation to arbitral proceedings seated in the Member States of the Union. Gilles Cuniberti’s remarks on the judgment by the Court of Justice in RFC Seraing also prompted a considerable number of comments, and so did the guest post by Paul Eichmüller on the application of religious rules in arbitration of pecuniary claims and the recognition of the resulting awards in Austria.

Interactions were also numerous on LinkedIn, where the number of EAPIL followers rose by 17% compared with 2024.

The editors – Apostolos Anthimos, Gilles Cuniberti, Pietro Franzina, Ugljesa Grusic, Marion Ho-Dac, Matthias Lehmann, Alina Ontanu, Marco Pasqua, Marta Requejo Isidro, Erik Sinander and Anna Wysocka-Bar – wish to express their deep gratitude to the readers of the blog and the guests, and all those who helped us do a better job (often behind the scenes, including by drawing our attention on interesting developments, or on errors in our posts).

Readers are always welcome to get in touch with the managing editor (at blog@eapil.org), share their views on published posts through comments and submit original contributions for publications (please, take a moment to read our house rules if you plan to submit a text!).

Happy 2026 to all!