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In a decision of 18 October 2022 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) saw no reason to consider a violation of the right to privacy and reputation based on Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). It declared an application by Artur Mas Gavarró, the former President of the Government of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia manifestly ill-founded, after the Spanish courts had dismissed Gavarró’s complaint against the newspaper El Mundo for alleged criminal defamation. The ECtHR confirms that criminal-law provisions on defamation can only be applied in very strict circumstances to be in accordance with the right to freedom of expression as guaranteed under Article 10 ECHR. The decision of the ECtHR further clarifies that a civil libel action or a request for a correction or rectification could have been a less intrusive interference with the right to freedom of expression in order to safeguard Mas Gavarró’s right to protection of his personal reputation.

Lützerath was geen leeg dorp, zoals afgelopen weken vaak verkondigd werd, zegt doctoraatsonderzoeker Anton Vandevoorde (UGent). Het Duitse dorp dat moest wijken voor de uitbreiding van een bruinkoolmijn was de afgelopen jaren een antikapitalistisch laboratorium dat activisten van over de hele wereld én buurtbewoners samenbracht.

Performs smoothed (and non-smoothed) principal/independent components analysis of functional data. Various functional pre-whitening approaches are implemented as discussed in Vidal and Aguilera (2022) "Novel whitening approaches in functional settings", . Further whitening representations of functional data can be derived in terms of a few principal components, providing an avenue to explore hidden structures in low dimensional settings: see Vidal, Rosso and Aguilera (2021) "Bi-smoothed functional independent component analysis for EEG artifact removal", .