The new federal government is still gathering itself, the new federal ministry of construction does not yet have a house (oh, the irony!), the agreements on the relocations of the individual units between the individual premises are still in the works. We will likely be able to provide you with more information on the latter, […]
Early Thursday morning, Parliament, Council, and Commission agreed on amendments to the Roaming Regulation. The revision mainly includes minor changes to the regulation, which prescribes how mobile providers must treat and bill each other for voice and data traffic of users from other EU countries. In the future, guest network operators must ensure the same […]
The traffic light coalition brings with it significant changes for the organization of digital policy in the federal government. The future Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate (BMWK) will hand over competencies for the digital sector to the future Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV). As a civil servant State Secretary in […]
What a day: Olaf Scholz is Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. From now on the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP will be in charge of the German federal government and bear a lot of responsibility. They won’t get a 100-day grace period foreseeably – but ministers and departments don’t seem to be […]
Europe’s data rights strategy must meet several requirements at once: On the one hand, it must guarantee the protection of European values, on the other hand, it must ensure the functioning of the markets, and thirdly, it is a geopolitical lever. The protection of personal data, primarily known under the heading of the General Data […]
Exchanges between the Biden administration and the EU Commission have been ongoing for months. Slowly, a further timetable is emerging: EU Commissioner Věra Jourová said at the 11th Data Protection & Privacy Conference that she hoped there would be proposals “by the end of the year” that could then be discussed with the relevant bodies. […]
EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton announced the EU’s support for a European newsroom at a media conference in Brussels and declared an EU media freedom law.A total of 16 news agencies, including the German Press Agency (dpa) and Agence France-Presse (AFP), are to better dovetail their reporting in a joint European newsroom from Brussels. […]
As announced yesterday, the traffic light coalition in Berlin has presented its coalition agreement. And it is not only comprehensive but also highly relevant in terms of European policy.And that is the core of this issue: we have examined the work program of the SPD, the Greens, and the FDP for you to see to what extent Europe has […]
A great many photos were made today. Scholz, Lindner, Habeck, Baerbock. Coalition. A new start. A joint photographer’s parade of the coalition group. Commonalities and particularities.Only one is hiding in plain sight. Just behind the television cameras on the left edge of the harbour hall, where the happy coalition partners are standing, someone has crawled […]
“The traffic light stands.” With this sentence, which is both a goal and a central insight, Chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz yesterday opened the presentation of the coalition agreement between the SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens and the FDP. Scholz, FDP leader Christian Lindner, the Green party leadership duo Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck, and SPD leader Saskia […]