With the Data Governance Act (DGA), the Commission wants to create a new type of data governance so that data can be exchanged more easily between sectors and member states and thus used more intensively. The rapporteur in the Industry Committee (ITRE), Angelika Niebler (CSU/EPP), therefore calls the law a “Schengen for data“. Nothing less […]
Who negotiates what? It is probably one of the most important questions in the European Parliament. First level: the committees. Second level: the rapporteurs. The more important and public a legislative project is, the more contested it is. Unfortunately, whoever has the necessary expertise often does not come first – especially when it comes to […]
It is a success for the Portuguese and Slovenian Presidencies: barely eleven months after the Commission’s proposal, the Council yesterday adopted its negotiating position on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA). The legislative proposals, which are intended to regulate the market power of big-tech companies, create fair conditions for competition […]
In an initiative report on legal migration, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) calls on the Commission to facilitate legal migration to the EU to address skills shortages. The report by Swedish MEP Abir Al-Sahlani (Renew) sets out concrete proposals for new options for legal migration to the EU. Before the […]
Negotiators in the European Parliament moved a good deal closer to a parliamentary position on the Digital Services Act yesterday after Internal Market Committee (IMCO) rapporteur Christel Schaldemose (S&D) presented new compromise proposals (Europe.Table reported). “I am pleased that we had a productive and constructive round of negotiations,” Schaldemose said after the three-hour meeting when […]
After the Internal Market Committee (IMCO) will vote on the compromise on the Digital Markets Act this morning, the negotiators of the political groups in the European Parliament seem to be slowly hitting the home stretch on the Digital Services Act. IMCO rapporteur Christel Schaldemose (S&D) has prepared new compromise drafts on three central points […]
One of the Advocates General at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), Campos Sánchez-Bordona, has interpreted previous ECJ advantages in his assessment in such a way that data retention would only be permitted in the event of a serious threat to national security. Even the temporary storage of a large amount of connection data, as […]
New Covid wave, new standard: the German federal and state governments agreed yesterday to link the decision on 2-G or 2-G plus to the so-called hospitalization incidence. Also, among the new resolutions are a partial vaccination requirement for medical and nursing workers who are in direct contact with vulnerable people, a higher booster shots rate, […]
Self-perception vs. perception by others: depending on your personality, these can be worlds apart.In the case of French MEP Geoffroy Didier (EPP), rapporteur for the Digital Services Act (DSA) in the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI), the perceptions are extreme: while cross-party accusations are voiced that he is insufficiently representing the JURI positions […]
The French presidency of the EU Council in January 2022 also brings the French presidential election closer. The incumbent president Emmanuel Macron has been conspicuously reticent so far: Officially, he is not yet a candidate. Tanja Kuchenbecker analyses the strategy behind this, takes a look at the issues Macron’s challengers are tackling and the chances […]