With the vote in Coreper on 2 February, 2024 EU Member States formally and definitively approved the text of the AI ACT which had been agreed by the Trilogue on 6 December […]
Fair share: what stage is the legislative proposal on the Internet tax?
Fair share has not attracted the consensus that was expected The “fair share” debate is certainly the telecommunications’ hype of 2023, both at European and national level. This subject has become an […]
Best wishes for 2022!
This year, either we go for a secured and protected European cloud, or we give up digital sovereignty permanently
EU prolonged the roaming reform
Someone had feared the risk that roaming costs could reappear, and the related shock-bills, if the European institutions in Brussels had failed in finding an agreement on how to extend the European […]
#Terreg regulation: foreign censorship is today getting closer
Without making too much noise, on 29 April, 2021 the European Parliament gave the green light to the so-called TERREG regulation, i.e. the European legislation designed to counter the spread of terrorist content […]
Best wishes for 2021!
And do note forget to have a look at my new piano album published on Spotify. There is a life beyond telecoms and Internet stuff!
The European copyright directive /1: ancillary copyright, link-tax or what?
The new Copyright Directive have been approved by the European Assembly with an important but not large majority: 348 in favor, 274 against, 36 abstention. Quite an important number of MEP avoided […]
European court rushes in rescue of hyperlinks
An opinion rendered today by the Court of Justice of the European Communities appears very innovative with regard the legal status of hyperlinks and their relation with copyright law. If confirmed […]
Terror does not stop the Internet
The images of the departure hall of the international airport of Brussels are devastating, and these of the Maalbeek metro as well. Today’s terrorist attack in Brussels was a shot to our […]
No VAT reduction for electronic books, EU court says
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union (decision of March 5, case C-479/13 and C-502/13 Commission v France and Commission v Luxembourg), European Members States cannot apply to electronic […]