During the second trilogue on the Digital Services Act (DSA), Parliament, the Council, and the Commission discussed some of the DSA’s major issues yesterday. However, the big surprise was not directly on the trilogue agenda: EU Vice President Margrethe Vestager wants to impose the costs for the monitoring of the very large platforms on them. […]
Bernd Lange (SPD/S&D), Chairman of the Trade Committee in the European Parliament, sees a “weaponization of trade”. And Lange is not only referring to the currently so important issues of dealing with the Russian Federation but also to the behavior of China and the USA under Trump. Arbitrary punitive tariffs, subsidies, targeted mistreatment of European […]
Online advertising as a business model is the subject of criticism from many directions. In the current negotiations between the Commission, the Council, and the Parliament on the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), there are once again different approaches whose interaction is currently still unclear.The second political and thus first […]
With a broad majority of 635 votes in favor and only 36 against, the European Parliament has decided to set up a special committee to investigate the possible use of the Pegasus spyware from the Israeli manufacturer NSO Group in violation of European law. The task of the special committee covers not only this specific […]
The decision is short, but it’s a tough one: Since its publication in the Official Journal of the EU yesterday at noon, broadcasting, enabling, or otherwise supporting broadcasting on all distribution channels such as cable networks, IP-TV, through Internet service providers, video platforms or apps is prohibited. The English, French, Spanish, British, and German versions […]
In the dispute between the Russian authorities and providers on the Internet, the Russian Wikipedia has now also become the focus of attention: According to the operators, the article Invasion of Ukraine 2022 has attracted the attention of the Prosecutor General’s Office. The latter is threatening the online encyclopedia, which is maintained by volunteers, with […]
The following scenarios have one thing in common: They are unlikely to lead to permanently stable and politically and economically reliable framework conditions – neither in Ukraine nor in the Russian Federation or Belarus. They are all speculative assumptions.Scenario 1 (possible): Russia wins, no further resistance With the symbolic fall of Kiev, Ukraine becomes a […]
An alleged attack on the satellite network operator Viasat also has consequences for German wind farms. The control and monitoring of wind turbines that communicate via the KA-SAT satellite system of the operator Viasat is currently not functioning in this way. “Since Thursday, a total of 5,800 wind turbines in Central Europe with a total […]
I hope you will still recognize the Federal Republic of Germany and Europe this morning. Politically, many things are different today; this weekend was a turning point, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz calls it. Everything is different, while the Russian army continues its attack on Ukraine with Belarusian support.A look across Europe: The EU has approved […]