On April 23, 2022, the European Parliament and EU Member States reached a political agreement on the Digital Services Act, which the European Commission proposed in 2020. European legislation in this area is obsolete – the area of digital services was last regulated more than 20 years ago, while the proliferation of counterfeit goods, hate speech and cyber threats showed the need to modernize it.

Due to the crisis situation in Ukraine and the mass influx of people fleeing the war, the Council of the European Union decided in early March to activate temporary protection for displaced persons in the European Union, providing temporary protection for Ukrainian displaced persons due to military invasion of Russian armed forces. In accordance with this decision, Slovenia also adopted its own Decision on the introduction of temporary protection for displaced persons from Ukraine in the Republic of Slovenia (Official Gazette of the Republic of Slovenia, No. 32/22), which entered into force on March 10, 2022. Since the war situation is not improving, the information on the process of obtaining temporary protection is still more than relevant. The process is described in more detail below.

We have recently prepared an article with information regarding measures the EU imposed on Russia, due to their invasion of Ukraine. Last week the European Commission made a step further with the adoption of the fifth package of sanctions.

Due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, geopolitical tensions are rising, while countries (especially EU, UK and US) are imposing sanctions on Russian entities and individuals. Historically, the EU has been imposing measures on Russia since the latter annexed Crimea in 2014, with sanctions ranging from diplomatic measures to restrictions on economic cooperation. When the current conflict began, those measures only increased.