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Impact of artificial intelligence on organised crime and the fight against child sexual abuse   Grande-Marlaska calls on internet platforms to develop "ethical algorithms" to prevent minors being exposed to radicalised content The Minister for Home Affairs, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, took part in the EU Internet Forum, which addressed the impact of artificial intelligence on organised crime and the fight against child sexual abuse. Fernando Grande-Marlaska warned of the risk of the use of generative artificial intelligence by terrorist organisations and called for "responsibility" from internet platforms in developing "ethical algorithms" that limit the exposure of users, "and especially minors", to radicalised content. The minister made this...

Europe’s internal security

Prevention and fight against serious criminal phenomena European Multidisciplinary Platform Against Criminal Threats (EMPACT)   Fernando Grande-Marlaska is committed to 'maintaining and improving' police cooperation with Georgia in the fight against crime. The Minister for Home Affairs met with his Georgian counterpart, Vakhtang Gomelauri, with whom he signed the bilateral agreement on mutual recognition and exchange of driving licences. The Minister for Home Affairs, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, met this Friday with his Georgian counterpart, Vakhtang Gomelauri, in a meeting in which he highlighted the mutual efforts made in recent months "to maintain and even improve the excellent level of bilateral collaboration in all areas affecting security...

National Strategy to Combat Organised Crime and Serious Offences

National Strategy to Combat Organised Crime and Serious Offences Incorporates the investigation and neutralisation of the economic and financial structures of criminal organisations   The government has begun to implement the National Strategy to Combat Organised Crime and Serious Offences 2019-2023, which seeks to provide the State law enforcement agencies and other public bodies with a unified and modern framework of reference to prevent and fight these criminal phenomena that so seriously harm society. This new text, published on Friday, 22 February in the Official Journal of Spain (Spanish acronym: BOE), revises and updates the previous strategy in force from 2011 to 2014, and...

Jurisdictional functions

Main legal professions in Spain Judges, public prosecutors and court clerks | Lawyers and court attorneys | Notaries and registrars   Judges, Public Prosecutors and Court Clerks   The Constitutional Law on the Judiciary establishes that jurisdictional functions may only be exercised by professional judges and magistrates, who make up the judicial profession. Entry to the judicial profession is based on the principles of merit and ability. Judicial appointments, the selective process of which is conducted in conjunction with appointments to the profession of public prosecutor, are subject to passing a public examination and a theoretical and practical selection course. Candidates must hold a law degree...

The Spanish Constitution

The Constitutional Court of Spain The declaration of unconstitutionality | Fundamental rights of citizens   The Constitutional Court   The Constitutional Court is the supreme body for the interpretation of the Constitution. It guarantees its primacy and judges conformity or non-conformity with the laws, provisions and acts challenged. The declaration of unconstitutionality can be promoted through the appeal of unconstitutionality - which can only be presented by the President of the Government of Spain, the Ombudsman, fifty deputies or fifty members of parliament - or through the question of unconstitutionality, which is raised by judges and courts. The Constitutional Court also resolves conflicts of competence that arise...