The European Parliament wants to force major digital companies to offer mobile phone users alternatives to pre-installed apps. The majority of MEPs voted in favor of an amendment to the Digital Markets Act (DMA) on Tuesday. According to the amendment, Google, for example, could be obliged to show users a list of alternative search engine […]
Olaf Scholz and Mark Rutte have already spoken to each other on Monday during the new chancellor’s inaugural telephone call. Today, Wednesday, Scholz will have the opportunity to talk to his Dutch colleague in person and congratulate him on the successful formation of a government, following the latter’s nine months of coalition talks. Then the […]
The EU Commission’s proposals for regulating artificial intelligence should be improved, according to experts at the Centre for European Policy (cep). It is indeed right to impose particularly strict requirements for high-risk AI systems, write cep experts Matthias Kullas and Lukas Harta in a new analysis. However, they see several weaknesses in the draft regulation […]
Almost 50 non-governmental organizations have criticized the renewed delay of the EU supply chain law. It is “unacceptable” that the European Commission is delaying such an important piece of legislation for the third time, they say in an open letter to its president Ursula von der Leyen. The signatories include Oxfam, Global Witness, the Supply […]
The European Parliament’s rapporteur Andreas Schwab believes it is realistic to conclude the trialogue with the Council on the Digital Markets Act (DMA) in March. He hopes to be ready by early or mid-March, the CDU MEP told journalists on Wednesday. The Digital Services Act (DSA), which is being negotiated in parallel, is expected to […]
The new federal cabinet is now complete after the SPD was the last of the three parties to present its ministers on Monday. So the personnel tableau is largely in place, but the structures are not yet. In digital policy, for example, several ministries are still fiercely battling over responsibilities one day before the election […]
The CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag has harshly criticized the European policy plans of the traffic light coalition. Deputy parliamentary group leader Katja Leikert (CDU) and European policy spokesperson Florian Hahn (CSU) criticize the goal of developing the EU into a “federal European state” as stated in the coalition agreement: “A federal state at […]
Green politician Anna Lührmann is to become the new Minister of State for Europe at the Federal Foreign Office. Foreign Minister-designate Annalena Baerbock has appointed the 38-year-old to represent the German Government at the General Affairs Council. Lührmann’s appointment is a surprise. She was not part of the Greens’ negotiating team in the coalition talks. […]
The older ones among us still remember CD-ROMs, those silver discs that appeared in the 1990s and replaced the floppy disk as a storage medium. The younger ones probably don’t – if you buy a new computer these days, you’ll hardly ever find one with a CD-ROM drive.But in the judiciary in Europe, they are […]
The EU Commission has to postpone the presentation of the planned due diligence law again. According to EU circles, the Committee for Regulatory Control has raised objections to the project, yet again. Accordingly, the proposal could be delayed until February or March. The proposal, last scheduled for December 8th, no longer appears on the updated […]