The goal of minimum taxation is still the easiest to explain: Profits of large corporations in one country should no longer be shifted to low-tax countries. Instead, companies should pay their more or less fair share in financing the local community. In return, taxes should be paid where the profits are generated. The so-called two-pillar […]
The EU Commission wants to change the rules for broadband expansion. A draft for the Gigabit Infrastructure Act (GIA), which is available to Europe.Table, contains several ideas that pose major challenges for telecommunications companies, home and land owners, and the public sector.According to the draft, the Commission’s central plans are primarily changes in access rules. […]
The decision of the Irish data protection supervisory authority DPC Ireland in the Facebook case has everything a legal interpretation thriller needs. At the beginning of January, the authority ruled that Meta may no longer use its users’ personal data for advertising personalization without being asked. If the decision stands, it will have a massive […]
The US company Meta faces a massive loss of advertising revenue in the EU. The reason for this is a decision taken by the European Data Protection Supervisors (EDPB). The Irish data protection supervisory authority has now served this on the company. In it, the EU subsidiaries of Facebook and Meta’s parent company are told […]
You have to let it roll off your tongue: Sven Giegold, State Secretary at the BMWK, writes a letter to the EU Commission. So far, so historically true to form. The Commission should please check whether Twitter – which obviously cannot be covered by the normal regulations of the Digital Markets Act passed this year […]
When Twitter changed its terms of service late last week, it was followed almost simultaneously by the suspension of several journalists’ accounts. Elon Musk sees his privacy violated by tweeting the data of his private plane. Musk’s plane is equipped with a publicly trackable identifier like all civilian aircraft. But the eccentric multi-billionaire and Twitter […]
Is it still coming – or is it not? In May, Commission Vice-President Margrethe Vestager and Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton opened a discussion on whether companies whose Internet traffic makes particular use of the capacities should not also have a greater share of the high costs of network expansion. Spain, France, and Italy, in […]
Yesterday afternoon, the EU Commission presented its draft for an adequacy decision for the US under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This explains in detail the assurances given by the US to ensure better protection of personal data in the US collected originally under the General Data Protection Regulation.On 134 pages, including annexes, the Commission […]
In the coming days, the EU Commission will present its proposal for an adequacy decision within the framework of the so-called EU-US Data Privacy Framework. This is to be the prerequisite for companies to be able to transfer personal data subject to the GDPR to the USA in the future with legal certainty. The spokesperson […]
Guntram Wolff, the director of the German Council on Foreign Relations in Berlin and previously in Brussels at the think tank Bruegel, chooses positive words: “The traffic light government is clearly pro-European and supports the central concerns of the EU and EU values,” he says in response to a Europe.Table inquiry. However, there is a […]