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April 8, 2015 · Blogs

Marrakesh Treaty: EU must take action now

In April 2015, the European Union “celebrates” one year since the signature of the Marrakesh Treaty. This Treaty seeks to facilitate access to cultural content to for people who are blind, visually impaired or print disabled. This Treaty makes mandatory for contracting parties to provide exceptions or limitations in their national legislation to the right […]

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November 6, 2013 · Blogs

NSA’s Long Data Collection Arm Reaches Everybody

The new revelations from Snowden show that NSA seems to spy on everybody, allies or enemies alike, collecting data form everywhere and everyone, in order to get a “diplomatic advantage” over allies such as France and Germany or an “economic advantage” over countries such as Japan or Brazil. Or even more? NY Times explains that […]

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June 24, 2014 · Blogs

Answering guide to the European Commission’s consultation on ISDS

In light of the public consulation on Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) launched by the European Commission in March 2014, and EDRi in collaboration with Access, Vrijschrift and Bits of Freedom, has created an answering guide. The answering guide will help you go through the different questions asked by the Commission and provides guidelines on how […]

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August 27, 2014 · Blogs

ENDitorial: ISDS Consultation – redefining “omnishambles”

Earlier this year, the European Commission was faced with a problem. The inclusion of dangerous, anti-democratic “investor-state dispute resolution” (ISDS) in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the planned EU/US trade agreement, was threatening to become a major political problem. There was a particular danger for the Commission that this would become an issue […]

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October 8, 2014 · Blogs

Despite compromising document, Malmström is here to stay

On 29 September the public hearing on Cecilia Malmström, the EU Commissioner-designate for Trade took place. The day before, Der Spiegel published an article revealing an email exchange indicating that Malmström and/or her cabinet had been covertly working with the US at an early stage in the development of the European Commission’s General Proposal for […]

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October 22, 2014 · Blogs

ENDitorial: Malmström – Always there to protect US

Now that Commissioner Cecilia Malmström will be taking over as the EU’s Trade Commissioner, and as the Commissioner in charge of negotiating the controversial TTIP trade deal with the USA, it is a useful time to cast our minds back to her achievements as Commissioner with responsibility for Home Affairs in the European Union. Commissioner […]

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December 17, 2014 · Blogs

Another Christmas (copyright) wish list for 2015

The copyright reform announced by both Andrus Ansip, Vice-President for the Digital Single Market, and Günther Oettinger, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, is going to be one of the core priorities of the new Commission’s Digital Agenda in 2015. Ansip has shown signs of interest to tackle copyright […]

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January 25, 2017 · Blogs

Commission’s 2017 Work Programme: The good, the bad & the ambiguous

At the end of October 2016, the European Commission presented its programme for 2017 “delivering a Europe that protects, empowers and defends”. The new programme highlights 21 key political initiatives and 18 Regulatory Fitness and Performance reviews (REFIT). The programme also contains an overview of the pending proposals from previous years that need to be […]

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March 23, 2015 · Blogs

EU trade secrets Directive: threat to free speech, health, environment and worker mobility

STATEMENT (pdf) 23 March 2015 (updated from 17 December 2014) Multi-sectoral civil society coalition calls for greater protections for consumers, journalists, whistleblowers, researchers and workers We strongly oppose the hasty push by the European Commission and Council for a new European Union (EU) directive on trade secrets because it contains: – An unreasonably broad definition […]

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July 3, 2013 · Blogs

PRISM / NSA – Will the European Parliament be able to think strategically?

The European Parliament will vote tomorrow (4 July) on a Resolution on the alleged spying activities of the United States National Security Agency. Ever since European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding sent a letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder, Europe has been waiting for a response to the extensive and serious allegations of abuse of […]

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June 17, 2014 · Blogs

2014: Consultations of importance to digital rights

The European institutions and international policy-making bodies frequently organise consultations, which are open not only to industry but also civil society and individual citizens. These are valuable opportunities to shape policy in a positive way from the outset rather than needing to take to the streets when the wrong policy is developed based on bad […]

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June 18, 2014 · Blogs

Neelie Kroes’ campaign to kill net neutrality

Two months have passed since the European Parliament adopted amendments to enshrine net neutrality in EU law at the beginning of April 2014. The Telecoms Single Market proposal is now being reviewed by the Council (Member States) of the EU. Rather than sitting back and waiting for the Council to carry out its work, Vice […]

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