Today, the European Commission has launched a public consultation on the modernisation of EU justice systems. The EU aims to support Member States in their efforts to adapt their justice systems to the digital age and improve EU cross-border judicial cooperation. Didier Reynders, Commissioner for Justice, said: “The COVID-19 pandemic has further highlighted the importance […]
MEP Birgit Sippel, S&D negotiator, calls for immediate negotiations on e-Privacy
The European Parliament’s negotiator on the e-Privacy regulation, Birgit Sippel MEP, has called for trilogue talks between the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission to start as soon as possible, after years of member states blocking progress. E-Privacy rules will give citizens control over how their confidential information can be used or shared online. […]
Debate with Secretary of State for European Affairs Ana Paula Zacarias: MEPs called for democratic oversight of tech giants to safeguard freedom of expression
Regulate social media platforms to defend democracy, MEPs say. In a debate with Secretary of State for European Affairs Ana Paula Zacarias from the Portuguese Presidency of the Council, and Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová, almost all speakers criticised the vast power of social media platforms and their worrying impact on politics and freedom of speech. […]
Portuguese Presidency organizes “The Metamorphosis of Intellectual Property in the Age of Digital Transition” high level conference
The Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) is organizing, in digital format, this Thursday, February 11, 2021, a high-level conference on the theme of “the metamorphosis of intellectual property in the era of transition digital ”. The conference, energized by the Ministry of Justice and the National Institute of Industrial Property, […]
Back To A Digitised Future For European Business
The 1989 cult movie “Back to the Future II” predicted that the year 2015 would bring with it a world of hover-boards, flying cars and self-lacing trainers, writes Carsten Bruhn, Executive Vice President, Commercial at Ricoh Europe. While few of the flashy gadgets foreseen by the film’s creators have come into existence, 1989 proved a landmark year […]
Buttarelli Says: “Make data protection rights more effective”
Speaking in a Q&A session, Giovanni Buttarelli, the new European Data Protection Supervisor said: “The EU has to make existing data protection rights more effective in practice, and to allow citizens to more easily exercise their rights at a time when we all run our entire lives with our smartphones” Over the coming five years […]
Super-High-Speed Internet and the Smart-School Generation
A few years from now, half the world’s population will have access to super-high-speed Internet. In Belgium, and in other European countries, different operators are focusing ever more on making Internet faster, writes Saskia van Uffelen, Belgian Digital Champion, CEO at Ericsson Belux In our country, operator Telenet announced at the end of August that it […]
Sir Martin Sorrell Tells Europe’s Leaders ‘Get Coding Into Classrooms’
Sir Martin Sorrell, founder and CEO of WPP, challenges European leaders to bring coding into the classroom, and suggests other top tips for the digital age. “Business leaders like to complain that institutions of government are slow, bureaucratic and blind to the “reality” of the marketplace,” writes Sorrell, “Politicians and civil servants respond that companies wouldn’t […]
Europe Faces Major Digital Market Challenges, And Risks Serious Failure
Founder of Tuenti – Spain’s largest social network and mobile multiplatform – Zaryn Dentzel sets out why he thinks Europe should become more entrepreneur – friendly and how it should look beyond its borders to achieve global success The Internet is one of the key factors driving today’s economy. No one can afford to be left behind. Even in […]
The Liberating, Life-Threatening Digital Age
The digital age is upon us and already it has created more social change than anybody might have dreamt of even a few decades ago. Both hardware and software have come light-years away from their first, hugely clumsy versions and it would be foolish to try and predict what unprecedented applications will come on the […]