If you were planning to travel to Brussels today, then hopefully you already know that public transport in Belgium will be paralyzed in large parts of the country due to a strike.Only around one in three IC trains will be running, according to the Belgian railroad company. Local transport in Brussels will also come to […]
Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has set up 14 new project groups within the Commission to improve the coordination and implementation of political priorities. The project groups are intended to ensure that initiatives are managed coherently and efficiently from conception to implementation. This is a new approach aimed at strengthening cooperation between Commissioners and […]
German SPD MEPs see a dangerous entanglement of business interests with the incoming US administration and are calling on the EU to act quickly. In his latest video message, meta-CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a “fatal U-turn in dealing with hate, hate speech and disinformation on his Facebook and Instagram platforms,” according to MEPs.In addition, he […]
How did you decide? Did you listen to Elon Musk’s conversation with Alice Weidel live to see how a US tech entrepreneur makes politics in Germany? Or did you decide against it, for example to avoid driving up the viewing figures for this event even further?Technically, you didn’t even have to be on X to […]
Meta is preparing to stop working with fact-checkers in Europe too. The company, which owns the Facebook, Instagram and Threads platforms, has already submitted a risk assessment report on content moderation measures to the EU Commission. Contexte first reported on this.Under the Digital Services Act, Meta is obliged to moderate content in order to create […]
X owner Elon Musk is getting heavily involved in the German election campaign – with his election recommendation for the far-right AfD and now also with his public talk with AfD top candidate Alice Weidel. Is he allowed to do this? First of all, the EU Commission says yes. Everyone, including Mr. Musk, naturally has […]
Mark Zuckerberg is preparing his platforms Facebook and Instagram for Donald Trump’s upcoming term in office. Meta discontinues its long-standing fact-checking program and instead introduces a system called Community Notes. This allows users to add notes or corrections to posts that may contain false or misleading information. The change affects Facebook, Instagram, and Threads and […]
Many people probably feel the same way as Emmanuel Macron. “Who could have imagined ten years ago that the owner of one of the largest social networks in the world would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany?” This is what the French President said on Monday in […]
The Commission has launched two public consultations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This concerns the measures that Apple should take to ensure the interoperability of its iPhones and iPads with third-party devices and apps. The consultations are part of two clarification procedures initiated in September.The background to the proceedings is Article 6(7) of the […]
European companies invested significantly more money in research and development (R&D) in 2023. Expenditure rose by 9.8% in nominal terms, while it only increased by 5.9% in the USA and 9.6% in China. This is according to the latest Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard, which the Commission publishes annually. Adjusted for inflation, however, the figures look […]