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EU lawmakers to complete financial system overhaul
April 15th, 2014
The European Parliament is set to approve legislation that will complete the biggest overhaul of the bloc’s financial system since the introduction of the euro currency. Lawmakers in Strasbourg on Tuesday are slated to sign off on the establishment ...
Europe embarks on economic revolution with landmark climate law
March 5th, 2020
Europe wants to make it illegal by 2050 to emit more greenhouse gases than can be removed from the atmosphere. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled a draft law on Wednesday that would commit the region to ...
EU voted in favor of controversial copyright laws; The internet could be changed forever
September 13th, 2018
The EU has voted on copyright reform (again), with members of European Parliament this time voting in favor of the extremely controversial Articles 11 and 13. The 438 to 226 vote, described as “the worst possible outcome” by some ...
Worried about non-EU investor, Germany may see a new law on foreign takeovers
August 13th, 2018
The German government is mulling over a proposal to change the country’s Foreign Trade and Payments Ordinance. The proposal has been sent to various ministries, and according to the Welt newspaper, a law granting the government more control could ...
17 EU countries warned for failing to implement cybersecurity law
July 24th, 2018
The European Commission has sent warnings to 17 EU countries for failing to implement cybersecurity law, after missing a May 9 deadline. The European Commission has issued warnings to seventeen European Union countries because the countries involved missed a ...
European Parliament votes down EU copyright laws
July 9th, 2018
MEPs have rejected a proposal to begin negotiations on EU copyright reform. The proposal had been approved by Parliament’s legal affairs committee. The file will now be debated and subject to a vote during the September plenary session. The ...
Controversial EU copyright law to face final vote in European Parliament
July 4th, 2018
The full chamber of the European Parliament has the opportunity today to reject the controversial copyright reform bill that the Legal Affairs Committee passed on June 20. On the floor will be Article 11 and 13, which mandate that ...
New EU copyright filtering law threatens the internet as we knew it
June 20th, 2018
On June 20th, a committee of the European Parliament will vote on whether to proceed on a copyright proposal that some say will destroy the internet as we know it. That may sound fairly hyperbolic, but over 70 experts ...
On 20 June is the biggest vote on potential change to copyright law in Europe
June 11th, 2018
On 20 June, Parliament’s legal affairs committee will vote on the biggest potential change to copyright law in Europe in the last 30 years. The European Commission made the initial proposal two years ago and at its heart were ...
Facebook and Google accused of violating GDPR on first day of the new European Privacy Law
June 6th, 2018
When Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of members of the European Parliament, he insisted that Facebook was ready for Friday, the day when the European Unions’s strict new data privacy law went into effect. But users in Europe have ...