Germany is pushing for a revival of the so-called Normandy Format in the Ukraine conflict. In this circle, consisting of Ukraine, Russia, France, and Germany, peaceful solutions should be sought, said German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock (Greens) on Monday during a visit to the Ukrainian capital Kiev. “Diplomacy is the only way,” she stressed. In […]
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson have expressed optimism that new regulations will be able to address specific problems on the Internet. In dealing with non-European providers such as Telegram, a joint European approach is needed, Faeser said at a joint press conference in Berlin. The Interior Minister, […]
After the liberal Renew Group, last week called for a special committee on the use of the controversial Pegasus spyware from Israeli manufacturer NSO in EU member states, there is currently no majority in the European Parliament for this. Whether such a committee will be set up is likely to become clear in the coming […]
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) spent months examining several devices from the Chinese provider Xiaomi. In response to an inquiry from Europe.Table, the federal IT security authority has now announced that it was “unable to identify any anomalies” that would require “further investigations or other measures”.Xiaomi had come under suspicion when an […]
They play no role in the coalition agreement. But the new supervisory authorities envisaged by the Digital Services Act (DSA) will become perhaps the most powerful national institution for internet regulation. Even though the DSA has not yet been fully negotiated, its enforcement depends heavily on nation-states making it practically possible.The basic construct of supervision […]
European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiórowski has banned the European police agency Europol from permanently retaining personal data without a clear link to criminal activity.Since 2020, the data protection watchdog and Europol had been at odds with each other over storage practices. However, Wiewiórowski now stated, “There has been no significant progress on the […]
The new German Minister of the Environment Steffi Lemke (Greens) has announced that the German government’s formal statement to the EU Commission on the taxonomy proposal will be negative. “This statement will contain a clear no to the inclusion of nuclear power in the taxonomy. This is the united position of the federal government,” Lemke […]
Sometimes it’s quite good to see a concrete figure: €500 billion. This is the order of magnitude for investment in the new generation of nuclear power plants that EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton believes is necessary by 2050, as he told the Journal di Dimanche in an interview. Given the price history of […]
The French Academy has been around for five hundred years. Pardon, the Académie française, naturellement. Even more weighty than the Gesellschaft für deutsche Sprache (Association for the German Language, which is often somewhat overweight in the media), it watches over the preservation of French culture and fights, above all, against any threats to the French […]
EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has announced that the EU Commission’s proposal to combat depictions of child sexual abuse online (CSAM), which was previously scheduled for March, will include a concrete obligation to search and report instead of voluntary regulations. “Voluntary reporting will then no longer be sufficient,” Johansson said, according to Welt am […]