On Wednesday 1 March, MEP Aléxis Georgoúlis (The Left, Greek) presented a first version of his opinion on the directive to combat SLAPPs (see EUROPE B12940A16) to the European Parliament’s Committee on Culture (CULT).
Among other things, he proposed removing the distinction between “abusive” and “manifestly unfounded” lawsuits. While the latter criterion is used to assess whether a procedure can be dismissed quickly (“early dismissal mechanism”), for a representative of the...