Belgian jurist Koen Lenaerts (Mortsel, 1954) is the President of the Court of Justice of the European Union, the most powerful judge in Europe. He is a professor of European law at the Catholic University of Leuven, and was a visiting professor at Harvard University. He was awarded a doctorate this Friday. honoris causa from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Good news for the European Commission's crusade against Google's monopolistic practices in Europe. The General Court of the European Union on Wednesday upheld the €2.4 billion penalty that Brussels imposed on the tech giant in 2017. The decision refers to the fine for abuse of a dominant position, because Margrethe Vestager's competition department found that the search engine systematically favoured the search pages of its price comparator, Google Shopping, ahead of other rival shoppers. Google can appeal the decision within the next two months.

Former president of the Generalitat and current MEP Carles Puigdemont has chosen October 1 to ask the European courts to restore his parliamentary immunity. The European General Court (EGC) has informed this Friday that Puigdemont's defence has formally requested provisional measures to regain immunity, as they already warned that they would do after his arrest in Alghero. Puigdemont has an appointment on Monday, October 4 before the judge in Sassari, who ordered his release after the ex president spent a night in prison in Sardinia.

Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí have provisionally regained immunity as Members of the European Parliament. The General Court of the European Union (GCEU) has put the European Parliament's decision to withdraw their immunity as MEPs on hold after their appeal. The European court does not rule on whether or not the pro-independence MEPs are right or wrong, but takes this measure preventively, while it waits for the European Parliament to present its case. This should happen within the next two weeks. That is to say, the court adopts precautionary measures before resolving on further precautionary measures.

Pablo Llarena is back on the charge in Europe. After more than three years of fiascos due to the refusal of several European courts to grant the extradition of the exiles of the Independence bid through Euro-orders presented by the Supreme Court, Llarena, who is in charge of the case against the independence movement, seems determined to play it out before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Llarena has finally expressed his willingness to transfer to the highest EU judicial instance a pre-trial question to clarify the limits of the state courts at the time of rejecting the euro-orders. It is, therefore, to finally set a general position. The Belgian refusal to send to Spain Catalan ex Minister of Culture Lluís Puig Gordi has the last straw for Llarena who has never given his arm to twist before the refusal of his European colleagues, whom he has not hesitated to accuse of disloyalty. In addition, despite the fact that there is still a lot to be decided, he has also wanted to take advantage of the decision of the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament in favour of withdrawing Carles Puigdemont, Toni Comín and Clara Ponsatí's immunity.