A coalition of 30 associations, consumer organizations and environmental and nature conservation organizations is calling for stricter rules for marketplaces in the Digital Services Act. In a joint appeal, they demand from the negotiators of the European Parliament, Council and Commission to significantly tighten the liability rules for online marketplaces compared to the Commission’s draft.In […]
Big excitement: Young Green Party politician Sarah-Lee Heinrich (20) is attracting attention with her pubescent self’s internet posts. How silly.For it is solely by the grace of an earlier birth that there is no real social media stupidity to marvel at from many established politicians in their youth. I wonder what we would see there?A […]
The candidate for chancellor, outgoing Premier of North Rhine-Westphalia and CDU Chairman is stepping down as party leader. In a public statement on Thursday evening, Laschet said that the task now was to make a “fresh start, whether in government or opposition.” He added that this would require new personalities, “from the chairman to the […]
The judges of the Trybunał Konstytucyjny, the Constitutional Court, have ruled that European law should be classified as subordinate to Polish constitutional law, as should all international treaties. In their decision, which was reached by a broad majority, the judges declared parts of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) to be incompatible with Poland’s constitution […]
Armin Laschet is currently accomplishing a feat: Is he really still in office as CDU chairman or has he already left? A statement by the candidate for chancellor, Armin Laschet, was announced in the Adenauer House after the CDU and CSU parliamentary group meeting. For days, many observers had no longer been wondering whether he […]
Neither Annalena Baerbock and Robert Habeck nor Christian Lindner radiated joy when they appeared before the cameras on Wednesday. Baerbock stressed that it was a great challenge to tackle a comprehensive renewal. Habeck explained that the preliminary talks on a possible traffic light coalition revealed “the greatest overlaps in terms of content,” “this applies above […]
The first round of exploratory talks is over: All potential partners have spoken to each other bilaterally. Three of the four parties in a possible Jamaica coalition concluded the talks on Tuesday afternoon: the 15 negotiators from the CDU and CSU met with ten representatives of the Greens. The talks had proceeded “constructive,” “factual” and […]
The qualification round for the Berlin exploratory talks is over: Constructive, constructive and constructive were the respective rounds of talks from the point of view of the negotiators; the cheating, on the other hand, is annoying, but only takes place with the Union. The Greens, CDU and CSU got the last part over with on […]
According to a former employee, US technology company Facebook has put its profit motive above the fight against hate speech and misinformation in several cases. That is why her lawyers have filed at least eight complaints with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, former product manager of Facebook’s misinformation team Frances Haugen told CBS television. […]
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Workplace – the Zuckerberg universe disappeared from the web yesterday, Monday, due to technical problems. What exactly was to blame, was not yet determined at the time of writing these lines. The only certain thing was that in the technical configuration of the domain name system (DNS), a kind of phone book […]