{"id":429336,"date":"2025-06-11T12:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/06\/11\/giustizia-raffaella-pezzuto-corte-ue\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:43:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T10:43:05","slug":"justice-raffaella-pezzuto-appointed-member-of-the-eu-general-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/06\/11\/justice-raffaella-pezzuto-appointed-member-of-the-eu-general-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice: Raffaella Pezzuto appointed member of the EU General Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – There is also an Italian name in the shortlist of appointed and confirmed judges at the European Court of Justice. The representatives of the EU member states have approved the names for the renewal of some of the posts at the EU’s justice body. They include\u00a0Raffaella Pezzuto<\/strong>, serving her\u00a0first term at the General Court<\/a>. A magistrate born in 1971, she has dedicated her life and career to\u00a0the world of justice. Pezzuto was head of criminal justice at Italy’s\u00a0Permanent Representation\u00a0to the European Union<\/a> after\u00a0being an advisor at the Court of Appeal in Florence and head of the International Coordination Office at the Ministry of Justice. Pezzuto will serve a six-year term in Luxembourg from September 1, 2025 to August 31, 2031.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Renewed were the terms of office for the General Court of Johannes Laitenberger and Gabriele Steinfatt (Germany), Danute Jo\u010dien\u0117 (Lithuania), Maja Brkan and Damjan Kukovec (Slovenia) and J\u00f6rgen Hettne (Sweden). Marko Bo\u0161njak (Slovenia) was appointed as a judge of the Court of Justice to replace Mr Marko Ile\u0161ic, deceased, for the remainder of the latter’s term of office until October 6, 2027.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Italian magistrate is serving her first term in Luxembourg. She will serve starting September 1, 2025, for six years. The name in the renewal package approved by the EU Council<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":429327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25774,25712],"tags":[26442,26219,26140],"class_list":["post-429336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-briefs","category-general-news","tag-court-of-justice-en","tag-judges-en","tag-justice-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429336"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429349,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429336\/revisions\/429349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}