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Three EU Member States—Italy, Lithuania, and Slovakia—have enacted legislation transposing the EU Pay Transparency Directive, revealing both common compliance threads and country-specific variations that multinational employers must navigate. These early implementations establish enforceable pay transparency obligations, from recruitment disclosures to employee information requests and gender pay gap reporting.

The European Commission has introduced a revised Technology Transfer Block Exemption Regulation and updated Guidelines, effective May 1, 2026, fundamentally reshaping how technology licensing agreements are assessed under EU competition law. The framework introduces significant changes including express provisions for data licensing, extended grace periods for market share thresholds, and new requirements for technology pools and collective negotiations. Companies have until April 30, 2027, to align existin

Political momentum is growing to admit new members into the EU for the first time since 2013. Before a June 5 summit hosted in Tivat, Montenegro, a non-paper circulated by Germany and France endorsed...