On the sidelines of the informal meeting of finance ministers in Prague, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner and his colleagues from France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands announced their approach: “As inflation hits heavily the spending power of our fellow citizens, companies must pay their fair share of the burden to alleviate the impact of […]
Interest representation is often subject to general suspicion: Do economic actors have undue sway over those with political responsibility? Does business have politics eat out of their hand? The reality is of course more complex – transparency registers have also been introduced in recent years to counteract prejudices: Who talks to whom and on whose […]
Federal Minister of Digital Affairs, Volker Wissing (FDP), and his cabinet colleagues are focusing on a policy of small steps: Wissing wants to lead Germany into the TOP 10 of the EU’s DESI ranking. DESI is a controversial measurement of the digitization degree of EU members, and the composition and weighting of its indicators are […]
The fact that the Internet has rapidly spread around the world is also due to the unique way it works: In theory, the network of networks is a technologically neutral middleman to which senders and receivers connect and allow data traffic to flow. Both sides pay for the respective costs up to the transfer points, […]
Actually, the goal is clear: Untrusted hardware and software should not be used in critical infrastructures, especially not in telecommunications infrastructures. The debate about the role of the Chinese supplier Huawei had also arrived in the EU and Germany in 2018, mainly at the instigation of the USA. The fear: The components of the Chinese […]
Actually, the goal is clear: Untrusted hardware and software should not be used in critical infrastructures, especially not in telecommunications infrastructures. The debate about the role of the Chinese supplier Huawei had also arrived in the EU and Germany in 2018, mainly at the instigation of the USA. The fear: The components of the Chinese […]
At the heart of the EU’s technology sanctions against the Russian Federation are two components: First, the Dual-Use Regulation, which was revised only last year and places certain goods under a licensing regime. The other is the actual sanctions, which are used to specifically target actors that the EU considers to be partly responsible for […]
The goal is clear: “We want to become the driving force for a European location. That is the only sensible goal,” says Anna Christmann, start-up representative of the German government. “We need to be visible as Europe and attractive for start-ups. As the largest country in the EU, we have a special role.”For this to […]
However, there is also some need for discussion about DSA implementation in Vienna. While the EU Commission is supposed to monitor compliance with the DSA for the largest providers such as Facebook, Google, Instagram and Amazon, smaller players are to be monitored in the respective headquarters country or where the European headquarters are located.The coordination […]
The EU Commission’s lineup for Digital Markets Act (DMA) enforcement is taking a more concrete shape. As we previously reported, 80 EU Commission employees are to be responsible for DMA enforcement alone, 55 of which are to be filled by internal appointments from the Directorate-General for Competition and the Directorate-General Communications Networks. The first names […]