If it is to be achieved at all, the 1.5-degree climate target will require massive efforts in the coming years. But is Europe even on the path to achieving it? Critics doubt it – but there are other voices as well. My colleague Lukas Scheid spoke with optimists as well as skeptics. Have some experts […]
“Europe’s phone number” has been a known problem since Henry Kissinger: A common EU foreign policy is mainly Sunday talk and must not be missing from any good intentions EU bingo sheet. José Manuel Barroso proudly announced in 2008: The telephone number finally existed. Catherine Ashton was the first High Representative and Commission Vice President […]
The manufacturers of mobile operating systems are coming under increasing pressure. The accusation, especially against Google and Apple: control over devices, app stores and applications made them overpowering players in the market.Lawmakers on both sides of the Atlantic are setting out to break this power. The European Parliament and the Council are currently discussing the […]
Two major upheavals keep us busy at Europe.Table. Today, we are looking at one of the most contentious issues of the Green Deal: Can nuclear power be part of the solution? My colleague Charlotte Wirth looked at the dispute over green investments. She describes why EU researchers are drawing massive criticism from a federal agency. […]
Austrian privacy activists None of Your Business (NOYB) filed 422 official complaints against website operators with member states’ data protection regulators on Tuesday. Among them, according to NOYB, are all the major platform operators on the web. The NGO is primarily attacking the technique known as dark patterns, in which website operators use user guidance […]
The major US IT corporations are making efforts to strengthen child protection. Google now announced in a blog post that photos of minors would be removed from the search engine’s image search results on request in the future. This right could be exercised by the minors, parents or guardians, according to Google Director Mindy Brooks. […]
Given the devastating forest fires in the Mediterranean, EU Crisis Commissioner Janez Lenarčič has called for more emphasis on EU civil protection. Crisis response capacity at the European level must be prioritized, the Slovenian Lenarčič said on Monday. The firefighting operations are one of the “biggest ever common firefighting operations,” Lenarčič added – involving several […]
It is summer break in Brussels. Finally, many commission officials, parliamentary staff and other people of the famous bubble will have thought. On December 1, the von der Leyen Commission will have been in office for two years. Until then, a lot is still to be discussed – so it’s high time to take a […]
Max Schrems and his fellow campaigners from None of Your Business (NOYB) are both respected and feared. The non-governmental organization not only sues companies but also the EU Commission and supervisory authorities, which, according to Schrems, do too little to ensure effective data protection. Schrems also says a lawsuit from NOYB against new digital laws […]
The Digital Governance Act (DGA) is intended to make data sharing easier for companies and research institutions in the EU. It is a bet on the future: If the framework conditions are right, a genuine data market could emerge in the EU, according to the calculations of the Commission, Parliament and Council. In which producers […]