As expected, Parliament, Council and Commission reached an agreement on the Digital Markets Act late last night. Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton explained that the DMA would “structure the digital space in the EU for the next 20 years.” Parliamentary rapporteur Andreas Schwab (CDU/EVP) said that some agreements were painful for the Parliament, but that […]
Further details are now available on the special committee to investigate the Pegasus spy affair and similar software. The chair of the special committee will be the European People’s Party, which has not yet decided on its members. Who will be the rapporteur of the committee, was also not yet clarified on Wednesday, according to […]
Green MEPs wrote a letter to Commission Vice-President Frans Timmermans, his colleagues Margrethe Vestager and Vera Jourova, Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton, Consumer Protection Commissioner Didier Reynders, and Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius. In the letter, they call for a stronger convergence of digitalization and the Green Deal: The ICT sector already accounts for 5 to […]
Even Thierry Breton had to smile: He wanted to discuss the EU Chips Act and other initiatives due to which the EU is to become the digital world market leader with the ITRE industry committee – digitally connected in keeping with the times. It was about spending billions, about research funding, about cutting-edge technology. But […]
Summits keep Brussels and capitals busy. An EU summit Thursday and Friday, an extraordinary NATO summit on Thursday, both attended by US President Joe Biden and, in part, with the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy joining in.In the morning, Chancellor Scholz will introduce the Chancellery budget in the Bundestag during the budget debate. Some announcements for […]
The European Court of Justice declared the Privacy Shield agreement on the transatlantic transfer of personal data invalid in 2020. Since then, intensive negotiations have been underway on a modified new version. But on the other side of the Atlantic, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has now opened proceedings against the former owners of CafePress, […]
At a hearing in the European Parliament’s LIBE Committee, experts voiced strong criticism of the enforcement of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Although data protection law has been harmonized at the European level, implementation is lacking in several areas.National administrative law plays a special role in this regard: It is decisive in the implementation […]
The organization Lobbycontrol has published a proposal from the EU Commission for the ongoing trilogue on the Digital Markets Act (DMA), which is intended to clarify the rules for interoperability regulations between messenger services. Article X, which means it is not yet numbered, includes much more specific rules on interoperability than the proposal of the […]
MEPs cite as a reason that Serbia is currently “dangerously slipping into authoritarianism,” which conflicts with its intention to join the EU. Talks should remain on hold until Serbia realigns its policies to EU values with “credible, concrete and unambiguous measures.” The letter continues that “these are not just EU values, but the values on […]
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has issued a warning against antivirus solutions from the Russian vendor Kaspersky. The reason for this is the Russian Federation’s ongoing war in Ukraine. The BSI considers it possible that Kaspersky could cooperate with Russian security authorities on its own initiative or even against its will or […]